We've been talking more lately about growth mindset for students, how to encourage learning, how to think about failure and success, and really believing that students can grow and learn. Intelligence is not a fixed point, but one that can be moved with learning, persistence and hard work.
An important part of encouraging this growth is engaging in it ourselves not only to model that for students but also to see that learning is never done. Our success as a school or as teachers is not based on our innate abilities, but on the fact that we work at growing developing our methods.
This Thursday and Friday, our administration team and two teachers from each school will be travelling to Rochester, New York to join a large group of Christian School teachers from around Ontario in a visit to a charter school there. Together we will observe, interact, and stretch ourselves to see how we can grow, learn and benefit our schools with great teaching and learning methods. The benefit of travelling with other teaching professionals allows us to encourage one another not only within our own schools but to grow a network of engaged educators dedicated to making Christian Education better.
Please pray for open hearts and minds to growth, not only of our own practice in individual classrooms and schools but of Christian Education overall. May God be glorified in our constant and restless seeking of relationship with Him and in our daily act of worship in our work!
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