So Your Middle Schooler Wants to Go to a Different School ? 3 Strategies for High School Retention

It’s an incontrovertible rule of life: every middle schooler will express a desire to go to a different school than the one they are currently in – any school – just as long is it is different. For small, private schools, this can be a worrisome proposition. Enrollment attrition is to be expected at key stages, most prominently advancing from 8th to 9th grade. Parents who chose your school over all others now feel that their child needs to bear more of the decision for where to go. Bigger schools with more programs make it seem like tuition dollars get

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baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist in stained glass

John the Baptist as Teacher – Jesus as Learner

I’ve been exploring the life of Jesus from the vantage point of his teaching ministry in order to gain insight into methods that would inform our own pedagogy. Interestingly, this exploration took me to Jesus as learner, especially during his formative pre-ministry years as a disciple of John the Baptist. In considering John the Baptist as teacher and Jesus as learner, there are some interesting ideas worthy of consideration as philosophers of education. John the Baptist as Teacher John the Baptist lived an austere lifestyle. He adhered to asceticism, wearing garments made of camel hair and restricting his diet to

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