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The names on your class list have become faces. You’re beginning to learn personalities, strengths, needs, and stories. You may already know which class will require a little extra grace. There may be a student you can’t quite figure out yet, a coworker you’re unsure how to navigate, or a situation that has followed you […]

Back-to-school season has a way of making everything feel urgent at once. The classroom needs to be ready. Lessons need to be planned. Names need to be learned. Meetings fill the calendar. And somehow, before the first few weeks have even passed, our minds can already be worrying about September, November, testing season, evaluations, difficult

What if the interruption you didn’t choose becomes one of the places God reminds you most clearly who you are and how faithfully He is still leading? Sometimes life changes direction without asking our permission. The last few weeks have looked nothing like I expected. A running accident left me with a concussion, a broken

The Story Is Still Being Written: Trusting God Through Life’s Unexpected Chapters Have you ever looked around at your life and thought, “This isn’t what I thought my story would look like.” Maybe you imagined your career taking a different direction. Maybe you thought that prayer would have been answered by now. Maybe you expected

Have you ever wished God would just hand you the plan? Not just the next step. The whole plan. Lately, I’ve found myself asking some questions about the future. This summer I’ve been teaching summer school while completing literacy training that I felt clearly led by God to pursue. Every door opened. The funding came

What does it actually mean to bring a Christian worldview into education? That’s the question I explored this week on the Kingdom Educators Podcast with Billy Hutchinson, Director of Colson Educators at The Colson Center. And as we talked, I found myself coming back to a truth that has been woven throughout this entire season

What if the greatest transformation God wants to bring isn’t first in your circumstances? What if it’s in how you see? As educators, we spend much of our lives responding to what is directly in front of us. Students. Parents. Curriculum. Leadership decisions. Unexpected challenges. Transitions. Waiting seasons. And while we often pray for God

Have you ever looked back on a painful season of your life and wondered: “Why did that happen?” Or perhaps you’ve asked: “Why do I still struggle with this?” As Christian educators, we often become experts at showing up for everyone else. We encourage students. Support colleagues. Care for families. Serve faithfully. Yet underneath the

Have you ever felt physically present in your classroom—but spiritually or emotionally exhausted underneath it all? As Christian educators, we spend so much of our lives pouring into others. We encourage students.Support families.Serve colleagues.Show up day after day with open hands and willing hearts. And yet somewhere along the way, many educators quietly begin carrying

What if the gifts, experiences, risks, and even the difficult seasons of your life are all connected in ways you cannot yet fully see? As Christian educators, it’s easy to compartmentalize parts of our story. We think:“That was just a season.”“That part of my life is over.”“I don’t know why I went through that.”“I’m not