Teaching Students, Not Classes
Why make education monotonous and repetitious when the students receiving it are so diverse? There’s a saying our Headmaster, Gregg Garner, taught us: “teach students, not classes.” When we teach classes, the content runs the high risk of becoming repetitive and monotonous for the students and for the teachers. And I get it, the teacher needs to get through all the material...whether the students were ready for it or not.
Sacred Education
Last Sunday evening, I was trying to get my five kids (4-13 yo) to get focused while we sat in our living room for a small time of worship. Not surprisingly, they were wiggly, giggly, and basically like they normally are in that space. What can you expect, they’re kids right? At the same time, what should I expect from kids in that kind of moment?
Fall 2019 Semester Reflection
As the semester and calendar year comes to a close, I find myself reflecting on the goodness of the Lord. As an educator, I’m blessed to work for an institution that does what it says it will, and is preoccupied with the whole child and not solely a test score. As a parent of a student at the Academy, I am blessed to know that the Lord has placed adults in the life of my child that will help him grow into a man…
Academy Senior Serves Local Widow
Eighteen year old Blake Botzum, now an Academy for G.O.D. graduate, wanted his senior project to be connected to ethical building. Blake interviewed several builders within the GOD community to learn what that meant, and what he found was one common motivation: to help someone who could not help themselves in a way that could be modeled by others.