Archive for the ‘ Excellence ’ Category

Product or Produce?

This article has been reposted by request.  I love dessert.  One of my favorites is pecan pie.  When I sit down to enjoy a piece of warm pecan pie Ala Mode there are two things that I am careful to do: 1) I eat slowly savoring each mouth watering morsel and 2) I am very [ READ MORE ]

Remarkable Times, Remarkable Blessings

Remarkable Times, Remarkable Blessings by Zach Clark, Westminster Christian Academy, St. Louis There is always a non-voodoo explanation. From the TV series, Monk In January of 2009, news began to spread that our nation and world truly was suffering the “worst economic crisis since the Great Depression”. The first week of January I was on the phone with [ READ MORE ]

Do Our Schools Need to Become Less Uptight?

WARNING: this article is provocative.  I am posting this article not because I agree with everything asserted (I don’t) but because it provokes thought and has relevance for how we are leading our schools during a time when the landscape of education is changing-perhaps dramatically.  At the end of this article I pose some questions [ READ MORE ]

The Charters are Coming!

  How to Position Our Schools for Long-Term Success Despite Prolonged High Unemployment and New Competition Over the last year or so  200 Christian schools have closed their doors.  Many who have not closed have lost students and laid off staff.  More will close this year.  Although a few Christian schools are thriving, most are not. This may [ READ MORE ]

Educational Leadership, Relationships, and the Eternal Value of Christian Schooling

The following is an excellent book review on “Schools as Communities: Educational Leadership, Relationships, and the Eternal Value of Christian Schooling.”  Click on the image to see the book on Amazon. This is a book that you should seriously consider reading.  (Disclaimer: I am a contributor author, Barrett Mosbacker). The review was published in The ICCTE Journal.  [ READ MORE ]

Can We Keep Up with the Competition?

(Reposted from Goggle Blogger) We are in danger of becoming increasingly irrelevant and non-competitive. If we do, we will lose students. Historically, our competition has come from free public schools, charter schools, and homeschooling. Our new competition is coming from technology enabled courses offered by public schools, colleges and universities, and virtual schools, including virtual Christian [ READ MORE ]

Are You Spread Too Thin? How to Thrive and Not Merely Survive as a Christian School

(Reposted from Google Blogger) I recently read an interesting article by the CEO of Yahoo! titled The Peanut Butter Manifesto. Click here to read the memo. I highly recommend it to you. For the purposes of this blog article I want to focus on the following statement from the memo because it is instructive for us [ READ MORE ]

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