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Episode 8: Rethinking College Prep
Yes, Christian teachers should talk about order and structure and beauty, but other systems are just as likely to do this. However, being committed to a Christian worldview means we'll approach teaching mathematics with a different end in mind - helping our students to see the gospel and their need even more.
Episode 7: Teaching Mathematics Christianly
Yes, Christian teachers should talk about order and structure and beauty, but other systems are just as likely to do this. However, being committed to a Christian worldview means we'll approach teaching mathematics with a different end in mind - helping our students to see the gospel and their need even more.
Episode 6: Do Christian Schools and Churches Need Each Other?
Christian schools often talk about their relationships to local churches, but the nature of these relationships is more critical than ever ... both for the future of our schools and our churches. Episode 6 begins a conversation about the importance of reinvigorating healthy relationships between our schools and churches - that we might collectively engage our communities with the power of the gospel.
Warring Against our Students’ Default Settings
How do we think about behavior, rules, boundaries, and consequences in a gospel-centered way? Does it matter? Episode 5 briefly speaks to the reality that our students need boundaries that will help them see how life works best within a healthy learning community. But, they also need to consistent gospel-reminders that their obedience (or lack thereof) doesn't change their standing; it doesn't make them good or bad. Our task is to help them to gospel-prompted obedience and rescue them from their "default setting" which bends them toward moralism.
The 5 C’s of Intentional Christian Worldview Education
Host Noah Brink discusses five areas where an intentional emphasis on developing worldview education can further the philosophical and health of Christian schools. These 5 C's are intended to provide a framework for what a worldview development program could provide to our Christian schools.
Four Day School Weeks: A Theological Perspective
Increasingly, many schools and school districts are considering four-day school weeks. Should Christian schools consider it?Episode 2 of RenewCast seeks to provide a theological and pedagogical justification for considering the advantages of a four-day school week as look to hold all things under the lens of our Christian commitments.
Using Both Christian and Non-Christian Curriculum in our Schools
By focusing primary on a Christian understanding of Truth and of what we believe about Common Grace and the Image of God, we'll talk about the reasons why Christian schools should consider using both Christian and non-Christian texts in their curricular choices.
Gospel Distinctiveness
An introduction to Renew Education with special emphasis on the uniqueness and necessity of the gospel for the central focus for Christian Schools.