The best advice you may have received when you first started teaching could have been, "Take one day at a time!" These words are easy to say, but they are very hard to do. Borrowing tomorrow's trouble can be a bad habit, and many times we have come before the Lord in repentance. Sometimes we like to think we are organized and prepared for the unknowns in life, but being a Christian educator has a way of changing that mindset. Each day we need to erase the failures from yesterday and realize that God is providing His strength and creativity one day at a time....

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Tempted to hit that snooze button again? For your teenage students, that might be a good thing. In a recent study by a private Rhode Island high school, a half hour delay from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. in school start time for grades 9-12 improved motivation and lessened depression and fatigue....

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Fundraising is an essential part of every Christian school's budgeting. It's a major contributor to your budget. No matter your school's mission, fundraising plays an important role in supplying students with needed materials or resources like musical instruments, athletic equipment, traveling expenses, facility upkeep, classroom supplies, and much more. ...

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It is summer and you're a Christian school teacher. You're sitting on your patio lounge chair with the gentle breeze brushing past your face as you sip on an ice-cold lemonade. You sigh and lie back, watching the clouds past by effortlessly. You close your eyes....

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Can Christianity and charter schools mix? In today's educational waters, charter schools are emerging as an interesting, although uncertain, choice for public and private students looking for an alternative to the traditional classroom. Charter schools are publicly or privately funded schools that may not be subject to rules applied to public schools, in exchange for accountability measures presented in a school's charter. ...

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If you've ever been curious how many students attend private schools in the United States or ever wondered how many students attend religiously affiliated schools, The Condition of Education 2010 (released by the National Center for Education Statistics) is a report that examines the condition and progress of education for which accurate data is available.

Focusing mainly on the public school sector, The Condition of Education does include a brief glimpse into Private School Enrollment figures and data. ...

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You can feel it in the air. The 4th of July gives everyone the feeling of excitement. Family get-togethers, hot dog roasts, swimming at the lake, and, of course, watching fireworks at night. Independence Day gives all Americans, including Christian school teachers, a sense of pride and a time to celebrate our freedom. ...

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Here's a fun classroom tool to use this fall! In case you've been living under a rock lately (or you've just been a very busy teacher), you may not know that word clouds are all the rage with students and adults alike. A word cloud, also known as a tag cloud, is simply a visual image of content, usually website content. Here's the fun part: you don't have to just use website content or a specific web page's link. You can create word clouds with your own words! ...

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