Tag: Practical lesson ideas

Collaborating for Gender Equity in Christian Education

In celebration of International Women’s Day, I would like to share with you a recently published article that Masters of Educational Leadership graduate student, Stacy Sowerby and I joyfully collaborated on.  You’ll find a link and abstract below.  Enjoy!   https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/icctej/vol15/iss1/5/ Collaborating for Gender Equity in Christian Education Stacy Sowerby, Maple Ridge Christian SchoolFollow Adrienne..

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Teaching Team Leadership: Knowing and Being

“Helping students know something is not at all the same thing as helping students be something” (Frye, Taylor & Stafford, 2017) When I read this statement recently it challenged me as a professor of graduate studies.  I aim to create self awareness that leads to personal and professional transformation through the discipline of leadership studies…

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A Call to Personal Research: Indigenizing Your Curriculum

It has come to my attention that this article which appeared in the Canadian Journal for Teacher Research:  “A call to personal research: Indigenizing your curriculum” (2017, v.5.28) is no longer online. So I’m reposting it here at the request of a university librarian from Queens who informed me it is used in their graduate courses…

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How we teach matters

How we teach matters   I attended an educational conference session recently which really resonated with me. Dr. David Smith from Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan gave me language to explain the ‘why’ behind what I do what I do.   I found his session both informative and motivating and will attempt to synthesize my ‘take..

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Indigenizing the Curriculum: Foundational Questions

  The Indigenization of the British Columbia curriculum requires new constructs for leadership, Indigenous pedagogical practices, perspectives and content, and a vision for changing paradigms. A process such as Halbert and Kaser’s (2013) spirals of inquiry can help educators realize that learning is not linear but recursive. With respect to Indigenization, they suggest consideration of..

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Active Learning Opportunities

The heart and soul of teaching well is designing, sequencing and planning active learning opportunities around engaging and compelling content.  This is creative work that requires the educator to research solid content aligned with the learning objectives and discern effective means of sharing and engaging learners with that content. Furthermore, it requires the educator to..

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