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Educational Leadership: The Bishop as Teacher
The College for Bishops Leadership Institute was established to provide educational resources for new bishops as well as trending informational resources for all bishops. Educational Leadership: The Bishop as Teacher focuses on specific resources related to teaching:
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Training the Trainers
Mentoring New Teachers Virtually
Following the school shutdowns in March 2020 due to the global pandemic, participants in a statewide mentoring program had to use innovative strategies to support the transition to virtual teaching and learning. Prior to the shutdowns, most mentors and new teachers had met face-to-face for collaboration and support. Edutopia surveyed participants to find out what mentors and new teachers were learning from each other in order to deliver high quality virtual instruction.
What will summer be like without the usual VBS, camps, and mission trips?
As the strange summer of 2020 arrives, families are finding that they can’t count on the usual seasonal programming to help kids keep making progress in spiritual formation. That means parents can’t rely solely on professionals to move the faith formation process along. Indeed, those professionals are doubling down on their roles as supporters and partners of family-based ministries, becoming equippers by innovating from within their formation traditions.
A Call to Action for White Educators Who Seek to Be Anti-Racist
For many students who study the Civil Rights Movement in school, the suffering often seems abstract and they falsely believe these are stories from a distant past. But, racism didn’t end with the Civil Rights Movement. It is an ever present, persistent evil that impacts us all in every aspect of our daily lives. Wishing and hoping that systemic racism will just go away--or believing that it doesn’t exist in our own communities-is its own form of violence. How can we do a better job of educating about racism?
faith formation in a changing church
About six months ago Sharon Ely Pearson was invited to the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia (western Washington state) to deliver a keynote address for their annual Better Together Christian formation event. When the area became a COVID-19 hotspot, the event was cancelled; however, with flexibility and technology, she was able to give her (now altered) keynote from home via a live webinar just a few weeks later. The Diocese of Olympia has made the recording available on their website, along with the accompanying handout.
The Tough Work of Improving School Culture
Collaboration is hard work and there is often not a clearly defined path for how we can best communicate with one another. This is a problem not unique to school settings. In this brief article form Edutopia, a principal discusses the process used in his school to move from a top-down, principal-driven school culture to a shared, collaborative community.
Weighing the Workshop
The professional development workshop merits careful examination in terms of the quality of learning it can provide. Designers, facilitators, and evaluators need tools to guide reflection on quality that will lead to the best possible learning experience for teachers. This article explores six key criteria in planning professional development. Though developed as a tool for formative evaluation, this framework will be equally useful to planners as a guide for designing workshop-style professional development.
Why Give--Rethinking Clergy Education
What is good stewardship around educating our next generation of clergy? In this article, commissioned as part of ECF’s Lilly Endowment initiative, “From Economic Challenges to Transformational Opportunities,” Gary Shilling, economist and chair of the board of Episcopal Preaching Foundation, invites us to consider changes in the way our Church identifies, recruits, trains, and financially supports, the next generation of Episcopal clergy, the women and men who will guide seekers and followers into deeper relationship with Christ.
Encouraging Lay Theology
Today, people receive a plethora of religious information on cable television and the internet, and it is imperative that the church add its voice to media presentations on the life of Jesus, scripture, God, the Gnostic scriptures, and world religions, not to mention the superficial and often harmful theologies often presented by popular televangelists. In a time in which many assert that post-modernism privileges experience over doctrine, open-ended theological reflection has become more essential in the pulpit and the congregational classroom.