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Faith Development/Distinctives
Title: Distinctives Workshop (two-day)... see Distinctives Workshops
Title: Connecting Culture, Change, Kids, and Christ: The Challenge of Christian Education Today (Provides a wide view look at kids and culture and the issue of helping kids to make connections between faith and life)
Title: Nurturing Faith With Kids in the Middle: A Look at Faith Development of 10-14 Year Olds (Explores what issues related to faith development are most critical with this age group and how educators can better help to nurture faith)
Curriculum
Title: Embodying Kingdom Citizenship: Curriculum Leadership in the 21st Century (Takes a comprehensive look at intersections between school mission, teaching and learning, supervision and evaluation, and professional development)
Title: Essential Questions – Why You Should Be More Concerned With EQ’s Than IQ’s at Your School (Integrating faith and learning - also part of a Distinctives two-day workshop)
Title: Curriculum Mapping (Making a case for the value of mapping, how to decide categories, steps for multi-year process of development, and considering best tools to use to make it practical and possible)
Classroom
Title: Touching the Heart Through Faith Enhancing Practices (Exploring 12 things that teachers do to encourage faith development in the classroom - also part of a Distinctives two-day workshop)
Community
Title: Creating a Climate/Culture for Faith Nurture and Learning: Balancing Grace and Truth (What kind of climate/culture exists in your school? What specific ideas have been shown to positively impact climate/culture? What do we mean by balancing grace and truth? An exploration of the relationship between climate, culture, and character and the mission, vision, and values of your school. Is climate/culture an organizational or personal issue? How does the climate/culture of the larger school community impact your classroom? What is the role of leadership related to a healthy climate/culture? Also part of Distinctives two-day workshop in shorter format)
School Improvement
Title: Moving Your School Toward Distinctive Excellence: Beyond Vision to Action (A look at CSI’s new accreditation/school improvement framework and process that assists schools who are ready to move beyond the Vision to Action stage. The focus is on instructional improvement and faith development. Schools learn how to use self-assessment rubrics related to learning/faith standards. See School Improvement)
Leadership
Title: Leadership and Wounding: Principles to Live By (Explores emotional/social intelligence research and its applications. How can leaders lead from their own wounding, and how can they avoid wounding others in their leadership?)
Title: Leadership and Faith Nurture: It's Not Just Another Job, It's the Main Thing! (Explores the role of the leader as prophet, priest, and king in encouraging faith nurture by teachers and with students)
Teacher Evaluation and Professional Growth
Title: Evaluating Teachers for Professional Growth: Creating a Culture of Motivation and Learning (This book on teacher evaluation, published by Corwin Press, was authored by Dan Beerens. He has made multiple presentations around teacher evaluation and staff development using this content.)
Technology
Title: Google in Their Pocket: Using Tech to Teach Toward Wisdom (How are we feeling/thinking about tech change? How do tech tools change the delivery of teaching and learning? What models can help us move forward? This presentation attempts to embody a 21st Century pedagogical approach and can be done in a one-day or two-day time frame.)
Title: Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers (Explores why teachers should be using these tools, gives examples of effective tools and how they are best used, and provides a helpful listing via wiki of pre-selected tools to explore.)
Bible
Title: Bible Teaching/Assessment (Includes Bible standards, memory work, and student assessment)
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