Our MA Fellows in the School Leadership program will share blog posts about their coursework and learning journey. Interested in becoming part of a future cohort? Connect with us here. By: Bethany Dawson We live in an increasingly lonely society as social media and technology replace connection, and no one feels that distance more than our students. God designed us from the beginning for heartfelt interactions, laughter, and community. I feel a heavy weight as an […]

Safe. Fun. God’s Love.  And the power of lifting others up. Our MA Fellows in the School Leadership program will share blog posts about their coursework and learning journey. Interested in becoming part of a future cohort? Connect with us here. By: Regan Davis Rediscovering Joy in LeadershipThis past summer, I began my Master’s at Baylor University with a ten-day intensive in the M.A. in School Leadership program. On my first day back home in Langley, […]

How Self-Reflection Shapes Leadership By: Katie Ahmadzai A little over a year ago, my husband and I attended a lecture by an author who has written extensively about curiosity. As an educator, curiosity has always felt foundational to my “why.” I want students to wonder, discover, and create. I want to be a lifelong learner, examining and refining my pedagogy. I want to remain curious about the people I work with, so I can lead […]

By: Darren Iselin Jon Eckert mentions in his excellent and highly practical book Just Teaching that he once commenced an article with the sentence: “I teach to entertain myself”.[i] Rather than trivialising the importance of learning and instruction, such a posture, when used creatively and deliberately, has been found to significantly enhance and promote engagement and motivation in learners and build meaningful relationships between teachers and students. Catherine Price identifies the triad of elements that […]

By: Wendi Singletary We have reached the point in the year where the beginning of school is a distant memory. Many of us find ourselves longing for the next break or even May. It’s that stretch in the fall when the goals and dreams we had for the school year can get lost in the minutiae of daily tasks. It can be so easy to just lower our expectations, to decide our current trajectory is […]