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Daily Bulletin

I'd Like Mine with the Works!

01.27.12| Posted in: January 2012, Daily Bulletin | 0 Comments| Rating: 0

Cream with your coffee, popcorn with your movie, sprinkles for your donut.

In its simplest form, this is enrichment. It is taking anything in its most basic form and layering it with embellishments to make it more interesting, more enjoyable, or more beneficial....

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Goodbye Distractions. Hello YouTube for Schools.

01.20.12| Posted in: January 2012, Daily Bulletin | 0 Comments| Rating: 0

People spend 2.9 billion hours on YouTube each month. If you ran those hours back to back, it would equal more than 325,000 years of video. These numbers make it obvious that YouTube engages. It seems natural that teachers would choose to use some of these videos to enrich the learning experience for their students....

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Are You a Turnaround Teacher?

11.21.11| Posted in: November 2011, Daily Bulletin | 0 Comments| Rating: 0
Can a child who has a less than ideal situation at home, struggles in the classroom, and is challenged by social interactions develop into a confident, competent, and caring adult?

We call these students "at-risk," and many of them show up in the classrooms of Christian schools....

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7 Tips to Stimulate Learning through Physical Activity

11.15.11| Posted in: November 2011, Daily Bulletin | 0 Comments| Rating: 0
The other evening I had the opportunity to sit down and have an enlightening conversation with one of my favorite six-year-olds. Sweet and precocious, she complimented me on the "pizza bubble" I made for dinner and participated in the over-the-table conversation....

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Merging the Sacred and Secular Worlds

10.19.11| Posted in: October 2011, Daily Bulletin | 0 Comments| Rating: 0
Today is Katie's first day at her new school, your school. Although Katie has been attending a Christian school since kindergarten, her parents are unhappy. Katie can recite many Bible verses and can talk about their meaning, but when it comes to answering the big questions about how God works in her life, Katie seems confused....

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Confronting Conflict as a Christian Educator

10.04.11| Posted in: October 2011, Daily Bulletin | 0 Comments| Rating: 0

So tell me, where in the Bible does it say it’s OK to run away from problems? Where does it say that we shouldn’t say anything that’s true if it could hurt someone else’s feelings—or rock the boat? ...

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Trusting in What You Can't See

09.28.11| Posted in: September 2011, Daily Bulletin | 0 Comments| Rating: 0
Trust and faith are cut from the same cloth. One weaves into the other and vice versa. As Christian educators, we define our differences from others by what we believe-what we have faith in. Faith, as defined by Dictionary.com, is "(1) confidence or trust in a person or thing (2) belief that is not based on proof."...

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Christian Schools and the STEM Debate

09.21.11| Posted in: September 2011, Daily Bulletin | 0 Comments| Rating: 0
Enter a new debate, now on center stage. STEM is its name. Short for a national movement to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in K-12 students, STEM has gotten a lot of press lately as the golden solution to saving America as a leading economic nation. It's true America's students lack in the area of STEM-related college degrees, being out-educated by nations like India, China, and others....

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What Stays? What Goes?

08.31.11| Posted in: August 2011, Daily Bulletin | 0 Comments| Rating: 0
The A list, to-do lists, top 10 lists, grocery lists. We all have them, but seldom are they as telling as the very insightful list of 21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020. Created by artist and teacher Shelly Blake-Plock, this list was originally published in 2009 on the Teach Paperless blog....

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Eight Back-to-School Orientation Ideas

08.16.11| Posted in: August 2011, Daily Bulletin | 0 Comments| Rating: 0

3, 2, 1. . . The school year is almost ready to blast off, and you've been busy at your Christian school getting your schedules, classes, and activities ready for a new group of freshly faced students. Finally, you are ready for the doors to open and the throngs of students to flood your once summer-silent halls. Or are you?...

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