When Teaching Feels Like a Calling Again: Why Christian Crossroads Academy May Be Your Next Yes
Many Christian teachers entered education with a deep sense of calling: to shape young minds, nurture character, and help students discover truth and purpose. Yet over time, that calling can feel diluted. Faith is sidelined. Relationships are rushed. Expectations are lowered. And teaching becomes more about compliance than formation.
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.
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.