CACE | The Center for the Advancement of Christian Education

As another school year comes to a close, we educators find ourselves bearing a familiar mixture of emotions.
There is gratitude for God’s faithfulness. A sense of relief that summer is near. Joy in having seen students grow and move on to another grade or graduate. And, for many of us, exhaustion. Our profession has a cycle with a beginning and an end. For...

If you want to lead your community through crisis or change, the first step is to ask, “How big is our kingdom vision and what is the strength of our network?”
This focused question surfaced for me as I studied change leadership in British Columbia (BC) K-12 Christian schools. My dissertation addresses the following questions:...

May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Matthew 6:10 (NLT)
In the first post of this series, we considered how student behavior often tells a story. What may appear as defiance, apathy, avoidance, or even academic success may be a student’s learned response to stress, fear, instability, or shame. When we understand...

And we believers also groan … for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering.
Romans 8:23 NLT
As a school-based mental health counselor in a Christian school, I often work with students whose behaviors have become dysfunctional in the school setting....