10 Steps for Teachers to Consider: “Maybe You Don’t Need to Quit Teaching…”
If you’re exhausted, overwhelmed, or quietly counting the days until summer, I want you to know: you’re not alone.
So many teachers still love kids and still care deeply—but they feel worn down by constant pressure, endless demands, and the feeling that teaching has become unsustainable.
Here’s the gentle truth: Burnout doesn’t mean you’re weak. It often means you’ve been carrying too much for too long.
Greater Grand Forks Sees Rise in Faith-Based Education
Faith-based schools in Grand Forks and East Grand Forks are seeing rises in enrollment in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic, with increases ranging from 10% to 38%.
Different than their public counterparts, faith-based schools – according to their leaders – offer families and students more diverse environments: smaller, faith-driven, accessible and community-oriented.
Why So Many Teachers Are Leaving—and Why CCA Might Be the Answer
Across the nation, teachers are quietly asking a hard question: Can I keep doing this?
For many, the answer has become no—not because they no longer love children or learning, but because the profession they once entered with joy no longer resembles the calling they imagined.
How Latin Can Help Develop Future Leaders with Strong Morals
AI is accelerating everything: information, influence, and decision-making. But speed does not equal wisdom. Efficiency does not produce character.
What concerns me most is not whether children will be competent in the future—they will. What concerns me is whether they will have the discernment to pause, the courage to question, and the moral clarity to choose rightly when powerful tools present convincing but unexamined answers.
That is why my interest in education—especially in the earliest years—has deepened rather than diminished in the Age of AI.
Why Finland’s Education System Gets It Right—And Why Christian Crossroads Academy Goes Further
My interest in Finland’s education system did not begin with research or rankings. It began with family—around kitchen tables, in quiet conversations, and in the Finnish sauna. My great-grandparents came to America from Finland in the late 1800s. I was raised in a Finnish community. My heritage wasn’t something we talked about often, but something we lived every day. It showed up in work ethic, humility, perseverance, and a deep respect for learning and responsibility.
CCA Holds Informational Meetings
Christian Crossroads Academy in Stanley held two visioning nights recently. On Monday, Nov. 3 they held a virtual meeting. An in-person meeting was held on Thursday, Nov. 13.
Danita Bye, one of the founding board members, along with her brother Burl Evans, also a founding board member, welcomed everyone to the facility located at 6161 Highway 8. Both are Stanley High School graduates who recognize the importance of a Classical Christian model of education. The goal with the academy is to help students thrive and flourish through a different educational model.
Abraham Lincoln Set Off an Education Revolution in 1862 with the Land Grant Act.
In 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act and set off an education revolution. The Act established land-grant colleges across the country, democratizing higher education and equipping generations of Americans with the skills to meet the challenges of industrialization. That bold move helped transform the United States into the world’s economic powerhouse.
Today, we face a technological revolution of similar magnitude: Artificial Intelligence. Will we meet this challenge with the same boldness Lincoln displayed in 1862?
Summary of America Alone - The End of the World As We Know It by Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn’s America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It is a provocative, polemical examination of global demographic trends, cultural shifts, and geopolitical threats that he argues are reshaping the balance of power in the twenty-first century. Written in Steyn’s signature satirical yet urgent voice, the book contends that Western civilization—particularly Europe—is in steep decline, not because of direct military defeat, but because of demographic collapse, cultural exhaustion, and a failure of confidence. America, he argues, stands alone as the only major Western power with the potential—though not the guarantee—to resist that decline.
The Future Home of Christian Crossroads Academy
It all began with what you might call some good, old-fashioned divine intervention.
A new educational venture is taking shape in the heart of Stanley, North Dakota, as Christian Crossroads Academy prepares to open its doors in the Fall of 2026.
Back to Education’s Future
Is it possible that an old form of education is more necessary than ever, precisely because we are now in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) that would seem to render such schooling obsolete? Classical education gave birth to the Western Civilization and the democracies that have provided the greatest potential for freedom and progress in human flourishing.
Leadership Development Insight: The Future of AI - From Code to Consciousness
AI is no longer just a buzzword—it’s already shaping the way you work, lead, and make decisions. But beyond the amazing tools and possibilities, it also stirs up some tough questions: What values guide the way you use AI? And how do you keep your leadership grounded when the world around you feels like it’s accelerating?
Your Leadership Influence: Do You See Digital Device Use as a Public Health Threat?
North Dakota’s interim health chief is making a yearlong push against what he calls the state’s most urgent public health threat — the constant pull of cellphones and other digital devices.
AI’s Energy Appetite: Voracious & Efficient
The invention of useful artificial intelligence (AI), epitomized by the hype over ChatGPT, is the latest example of a basic truth about technology. There have always been many more inventions that use energy than those that can produce it. Such is the nature of progress in all domains from medicine and entertainment to information and transportation. While there’s a lot of debate, and angst, about AI’s implications for the economy, jobs and even politics, there’s no debate about the fact that it is a big deal and applications for using it are growing at a blistering pace.
Give Him Fifteen: The God of Providence
At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, brilliant Founding Father Benjamin Franklin called for prayer to end the contentious impasse being experienced. We quoted from his speech in a recent post [7/2/2025]. A portion of his appeal stated:
For New Grant, Ed Dept. Favors Colleges With ‘Civic’ Schools
The federal government is funding educational seminars about the 250th anniversary of America’s founding. Applying institutions get a leg up if they have what are often criticized as conservative centers.
Missteps with AI in the Classroom
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into education has unlocked powerful tools and possibilities, while also revealing challenges that threaten the integrity of genuine learning.[i] As an educator, I have seen a growing pattern over recent semesters in which diligent students engage deeply with course materials, absorbing complex ideas, asking questions, and developing a true understanding of the subject matter.
However, a contrasting group of students—those less invested in learning—have embraced AI tools as a way to complete assignments with minimal effort, relying on AI-generated answers that, while well-structured and grammatically sound, fail to engage with the substance of the assignment.
How well are schools serving the next generation of leaders?
With my commitment to leadership development for Next Gen leaders, I’m interested in our educational systems, K-16. Business leaders, as well as parents and grandparent, need to beware.
I’m curious what concerns you have.
I trust you find this article, published in the Stanley Promoter, by Dennis Patrick of value.
Red states tell colleges: Race and gender classes are out, civics in
Lawmakers in Utah, Ohio and Florida have mandated classes on civics and Western civilization and cut classes on race and gender from graduation requirements.
Minnesota is the First State to Pass Social Media Warning Labels to Address Mental Health
Minnesota has become the first state to pass a social media warning label law that will provide users with mental health resources.
KVRR’s Juliana Pelaez has more on why kids may be at a bigger mental health risk than we think.