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A staggering 86 percent of Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus do not have personal contact with a Christian (Johnson and Ross 2009). How can this be? Didn’t Jesus command us as His disciples to “go and make disciples of all the nations”? Another way to read that would be to “go make disciples of all the peoples/people groups.” When I learned…

The work that we do is largely lived out in a community. In this work, God propels us toward others; as school leaders, we are immediately in the mix of parents, educators, staff, and students. We become part of a broader story He is writing not only in our lives but also in the lives of others. We are invited…

Much has changed since Converge 2022, when over 900 Christian school leaders gathered in San Diego for encouragement and refreshment after a trying three years of disruption. Since then, and as we look to Converge 2025 in Orlando, some things have improved: COVID has largely faded into the background, and interest and enrollments in Christian schools are significantly up. At…

Jay Ferguson, headmaster of Grace Community School in Tyler, Texas, shares a couple of ways we as Christian educators can prepare our hearts, and those of our students and families, to be uniters and reconcilers.

Edward Noot, executive director of SCSBC, explains how our place in a pluralistic society will be strengthened if we adhere to our core purpose while finding ways for our schools to become increasingly engaged with our neighbours and society.

In this week’s blog post, Jeremy Tinsley, superintendent at Vancouver Christian School in British Columbia, shares his school community’s struggle to understand the loss and trauma of their Indigenous community members.

Jon Eckert, Copple Professor for Christians in School Leadership at Baylor University, shares three ways to catalyze collective leadership to build thriving school communities in this week’s blog post.

In this week’s blog post, Author and Grow Kids Teacher Laura Barringer introduces how we can nurture habits of goodness in our school communities. Laura’s March 9 Converge session, “Tov: A Three-Lettered Word That Shapes School Culture,” will explore this question: How do we create school cultures that resist abuse and toxicity?

In this week’s blog post, HeartSmart Founder Dave Hill writes about how we can cultivate faith in our students. Dave’s March 10 Converge session will focus on preparing students for a rapidly changing world and how they can embrace change while developing character.

How can we as Christians create a stronger sense of community identity centered in obedience to Christ, that we can allow our borders to be permeable? Don’t miss Surrey Christian School Superintendent Dave Loewen’s session, “Exclusion and Embrace in the Christian School” on March 9 at Converge.