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Education
Recognition: A Powerful Encouragement in Ministry
The principal looked up from his desk in his office. There was a teacher standing in front of ...
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Student Exploration
Recently I attended a local arts festival and visited with several of the artists. I love visiting just ...
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Using Hymns to Teach the Faith
Part III Remembering Hymns or Teaching Memory Work to Children through the Hymnal Memory Work Needs to be ...
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The Answer Bench: Simple. Innovative. Engaging.
It is a bustling middle school hallway. There sits the principal of this Lutheran community—with a ready smile ...
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Is The Main Thing the Main Thing?
As the 2021-2022 school year has come to a close, faculties reflect on and review the past year’s ...
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A Final(?) Chapter
Over the past number of months I have chronicled my journey into and out of teaching. Today I ...
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Struggling Readers
If you teach young children to read, you are a hero. Learning to read is a complex process. ...
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Using Hymns to Teach the Faith
Part II – The Hymn of the Month Why We Study Music and Hymns in Lutheran Schools It ...
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Being There
I was struck by the reporting of an incident in a New Jersey charter school a couple weeks ...
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“I Want to Tell the Story”
One of the first things I was told not to do as a student teacher was to bring ...
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