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Christian Teacher of the Year: Brooke Stewart is pioneering an agriculture program for Christian education, making hard work cool againAgriculture and Christian education don’t always go together. But they should. Just ask Brooke Stewart, who teaches agriculture science at Victory Christian Academy in Decatur, Texas. “It’s more than cows,… Read More
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Christian Teacher of the Year: Sarah Murphy finds her mission in the classroom, blending faith and learning with personal responsibilityWhen Sarah Murphy followed in her mother’s footsteps and became a teacher, she assumed she would teach in a public school. “I really thought my mission would be public,” Murphy… Read More
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Christian Teacher of the Year: English teacher Cheryl Crouch challenges students to ‘be a thinker, don’t just take the easy way out’Cheryl Crouch has been a high school English teacher for 13 years, but the skills she seeks to instill in her students are timeless. “As an English teacher, [I hope]… Read More
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Christian Teacher of the Year: Tanya Dallmeyer helps her students start each day with a bang, or a box, while encouraging them toward faith and serviceVeteran teacher Tanya Dallmeyer decided some time ago to depart from conventional morning routines in her classroom and take a creative approach to start the day. “For years, my students… Read More
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Christian Teacher of the Year: Nurse-turned-teacher Janelle Rupp helps students understand their God-given identityJanelle Rupp hadn’t planned to be a teacher. Raised in a Christian family, she felt called by God to be a nurse – a calling she followed for nearly two… Read More
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Christian Teacher of the Year: Bruce Hoover steps right out of history to take his students back there, all the while pointing to GodBruce Hoover looks every bit the time traveler he is. And why not? The bearded, bespectacled American history teacher at Anchor Christian Academy in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,… Read More
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Christian Teacher of the Year: Joseph Cox takes his students to ‘court’ to put their faith on trial, preparing them for college and lifeThe resurrection of Jesus Christ is the linchpin of the Christian faith. So how do you teach Christian school students to believe and defend it? Put the belief on trial. Read More
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Christian Teacher of the Year: Ashley Skinner innovates at school her family started generations beforeAshley Skinner may not have thought she would one day be laminating and lesson planning at a Christian school, just as she had watched her mother and grandmother faithfully do… Read More
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Christian Teacher of the Year: Mark Newman has students view today’s news and toughest topics through the lens of scriptureIt seems as if everyone’s trying to put his or her own spin on the lunacy and lewdness that is the news of today. Mark Newman chooses to put current… Read More
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Christian Teacher of the Year: Kyle Rapinchuk’s students tasked with planning churches from scratch, seeing God in history’s great booksThe global nonprofit Junior Achievement teaches students how to turn an idea into a business. Dr. Kyle Rapinchuk teaches his students how to turn their religious beliefs into a church. Read More
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Christian Teacher of the Year: Bible teacher Jake Kounter explains why there’s nothing more exciting than biblical educationJake Kounter loves seeing the gospel come alive in the lives of his students. As the Bible teacher at Immanuel Christian High School in Virginia, Kounter works with students who… Read More
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Christian Teacher of the Year: Science teacher Diane Carter uses ‘Creature Feature’ to help students look through creation to see the CreatorImagine walking out of a building and finding a crowd of people looking up at something. What do you do? You join them, of course. “You always look at what… Read More