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Pedagogy
What Do You Do With the Mad That You Feel?
Working through emotions is one of the uniquely demanding tasks of being human. Feelings don’t arrive in neat, ...
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Classroom Management – Where to Begin?
I have been a teacher for 27 years, and one question I am often asked by colleagues, future ...
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Comprehension Begins Before Page One
Let’s play a little game. I’ll give you just the first few words of a text, and you’ll ...
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Adding Movement to Any Lesson: A Teacher’s Guide
Why Movement MattersAs educators, we often feel the need to keep lessons tightly structured. Yet God designed our ...
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Time to Teach the Trinity
March is coming, and it holds the first official day of Spring. It’s a day many people look ...
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Why Handwriting Still Matters in a Digital World
In today’s classrooms, students are more likely to swipe, tap, and type than pick up a pencil. With ...
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Make a Joyful Noise … In a Mario Voice
This year’s theme for Lutheran schools is ‘Make a Joyful Noise.’ Consider the following from the Psalms. Psalm ...
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Something Old or Something New?
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where everyone around you understood something that you did not? ...
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Let’s TALK About AI
Recently I have led some conference sessions for educators and administrators on artificial intelligence (AI). Clearly, there are ...
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Nurturing the Whole Child: Bringing Fred Rogers’ Six Fundamentals of Learning and Growing Into the Classroom
Fred Rogers believed that every child has the potential to grow into a caring, curious, and capable person—if ...
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