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.
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.
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.