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Faith, Community, and Learning

How do we reconcile educational practices that often push toward individual achievement with the biblical call to mutual service and interdependent community? Care for how we live together and seek one another’s good is a central theme in Christian reflection, and Christians have reflected profoundly on how Christian community is something more than our preferred personal networks. The New Testament teaches an ethic of mutual concern in which each brings their gifts to the service of others. How might taking this seriously shape our educational practices in preK-12 Christian education? 

Our courses on Community, Faith, & Learning explore these questions through video, text, discussion, personal study, and guided practice, whether for individuals, groups, or whole school communities.

Drawing from the Kuyers institute’s award-winning work on faith and teaching, we focus on joining careful Christian reflection on Christian community with concrete, everyday consequences for educational practice. Participants will learn about biblical teaching on community, explore how other teachers have responded to it in their schools around the world, and review their own practices in specific and structured ways

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When you click the Purchase Now button, you will first be asked to create an account in our learning management system or log in to your existing account. Once you are logged in, you will be able to download all the files for the extended version of this topic.

Extended Pathway

Choose this option for a longer, higher-impact learning experience for a group or school community. This resource provides 7 modules of learning with a participant commitment of about an hour per module. It can be spread over a period from 7 weeks up to 7 months.

Intensive Pathway

Choose this option if you need resources for leading a professional development day for a school staff. This resource provides group learning for a single intensive day, scalable from 90 minutes to a full day of learning. 

Coming June 2025

Self-paced Pathway

Choose this option if you are looking for affordable individual or small group study with modest time commitment, or a way of helping individual teachers such as new hires catch up with professional development. This resource provides structured learning tasks that require 4-8 hours of engagement at your own pace.  

Coming May 2025

Graduate Credit Pathway

Choose this option for masters-level study with graduate credit from Calvin university. This resource provides 40 hours of learning for one graduate credit. 

Coming June 2025

Discounts for pathway purchases

We aim to make these resources as accessible as possible. Use the discount codes listed below to get a discount based on your school size. You can also add any further discount code that you have based on an organizational membership. If your school cannot afford the cost, contact us with information about your situation and we will explore other options with you.

As soon as the Intensive version of this topic is ready, you will be able to purchase it together with the Extended version for a further combined discount.

  • Large schools – 1000+ students: $3000 (USD)
  • Medium schools – 500-1000 students: $2300 (USD). Use the code: MEDSCHOOL700
  • Small schools – 0-500 students: $1600 (USD). Use the code: SMALLSCHOOL1300

What K-12 Teachers Are Saying About This Resource

"Community, Faith, and Learning is an excellent resource for inspiring and equipping educators to interweave their faith into their teaching practices. It includes lots of practical examples to put into action!"

"The resource helps to re-frame Christian education from a focus on "Christian worldview" content to "Christian formation" practices. It's a resource that could bring together teachers, administrators, EAs, and support staff with a shared goal of shaping a school community that is more deeply characterized by gratitude, servanthood, and grace flowing from rootedness in the grace of Christ."

"I found these sessions to be beneficial because I came away from each session encouraged to more faithfully align my practice with my faith."

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Design a Professional Development Sequence

Each Everyday Christian Teaching resource is designed to make sense on its own. But we also know that professional development will have greater impact on your school community if it is coherently sustained over time.

We have therefore also designed these resources so that they can be combined into sequences, and we offer reduced pricing for combined purchases to encourage more extended learning.

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