Dr. Beth Green | April 17, 2018

Blessing the Culture for Good

When you are asked the question, “Why Christian school?”, what is your reply? Do you perhaps point to the biblical imperative that parents should teach their children the faith, or perhaps you cite the sociological evidence that subcultures are effective at reproducing religious faith? Maybe you argue that Christian schools...

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Mission Possible: “Late-Start” Professional Development

At Delmarva Christian Schools (DCS) in Delaware, we recently set what seemed to be an impossible goal for our PK–8 campus, which is located roughly thirty minutes from our high school campus. The goal: “We want consistent, intentional, professionally led, team-oriented, growth-focused, longitudinal, and measurable professional development for our teachers—and we want it each week—every week—for an hour—in the morning—with 100 percent of teaching staff present every time.”

Teacher Professional Learning for the 21st Century

Some time ago I was asked to recollect a professional learning experience that had directly impacted or changed my teaching practice. Over my twenty-five years in teaching, I have participated in hundreds, probably thousands, of hours of professional learning activities. I had no trouble recalling many excellent workshops, conferences, and in-house activities that I have participated in—but the struggle was to think of one that I could say had unequivocally had a direct impact on my practice. This reflection led me on a journey to think about the deficiencies of “traditional” approaches to professional learning and to discover what research and literature had to say regarding best practice. 

March 29: Day of Prayer for Christian Schools

I am humbly asking every Christian educator around the world to join together in a Day of Prayer on Maundy Thursday, March 29. I believe that the Holy Week of Easter is a time when all Christian believers are drawn to repentance and unity at the foot of the cross of Christ. So, Maundy Thursday is a natural time to bow before the Lord in humility, remembering how on this day He took on the role of a servant with a basin of water and towel to wash His disciples’ feet, offering them His body and blood in the Last Supper, and praying for them (and us) that they (we) might be one as He and His Father are one.

A Faith and Science Teaching Resource: Expanding the Promise for STEM Education

Since the beginning of The Colossian Forum (TCF), we’ve used the conflict between faith and science as an opportunity for virtue formation in the midst of often-heated debate. In Christian schools, this debate takes on added emotional intensity because biblical reliability, historical reality, and human value seem to be in question. It is easier to avoid these pressured conversations altogether or charge into them, guns blazing.