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Adventist Business Curricula: Connecting Cows and Currency
Tertiary-Lifelong
The story of how La Sierra University (LSU) students make a practical commitment to community. The LSU Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) team developed a project, the Cow Bank, in which they applied the free enterprise model to a social need. The project...
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Career Opportunities in Philanthropy
Tertiary-Lifelong
Job openings in development targeted to an audience of executives, managers and professionals visiting this site. Individuals that are organization members are encouraged to keep their resumes posted on this site as a reference for employee
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Contracting: A Way to Increase Student Learning
Kindergarten-Grade 12
A contract is an agreement between a teacher and the student or parent dealing with goals, behavior, or work that will be accomplished in a certain length of time. Types of contracts are goal-setting, behavior, daily work, and weekly work. Examples of different...
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Do You Know My Jesus?
Kindergarten-Grade 12
Isaac Zayachkowski shares the Canadian Union's commitment to teaching students about Jesus, and helping them to grow in wisdom and stature. However, he believes this can be fully accomplished when administrators, pastors, teachers, and constituent members...
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Enjoy the Sunshine
Kindergarten-Grade 12
Morian Perepelitza shares the importance of maintaining the vision for Adventist schools, and notes that dedicated teachers alone cannot keep the vision alive. The goals and purposes of Adventist education need to be shared by parents and the church community...
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Five Guidelines for Parent-Teacher Conferences
Kindergarten-Grade 12
Five guidelines for conducting successful parent-teacher conferences to enhance the teacher's confidence and attitude towards the experience are: planning, commonalities, climate, control, and conclusion. Role expectations and channeling emotions to anticipate...
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How to Make Trust Services a Contributing Partner in Your School
Kindergarten-Grade 12
Jeffrey Wilson shares how schools can benefit from the trust services departments of the next highest organization in their structure, whether a conference, mission, union, or division. After the tragic loss of their daughter, Wilson and his wife made the...
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Ingredients for a Successful School
Kindergarten-Grade 12
Lee Richards notes that successful schools do not happen by accident, and discusses fourteen ingredients for the successful school: Service/caring orientation; Stability and reputation of faculty/staff; Strong financial planning/management; Strong Christ-centered...
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JAE Editorial: Multi-Level Partnering in Adventist Education
Preschool-Lifelong
Dulan considers the causes of reluctance to collaborate across levels of Adventist education, and outlines the advantages to colleges/universities partnering with secondary and/or primary schools.
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JAE Editorial: Possibilities Ahead
Kindergarten-Lifelong
Calvin Rock expresses his convictions about the importance of education to the church's welfare. The Adventist Review and the Integration of Faith and Learning Institute are discussed. Scholarship programs and endowments, a strong elementary and secondary...
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JAE Editorial: Will Adventist Education Still Pay?
Kindergarten-Lifelong
Adventists need to clarify their distinctiveness in order to sell the idea that Adventist education in its difference pays, rather than costs. Christian education needs to remain true to its nature if it is to retain its effectiveness, its power to attract...
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JAE: Of Interest to Teachers
Kindergarten-Lifelong
This Journal of Adventist Education column features current news, reports, and updates of interest to educators. In this issue: Hands-on Science is Best, Say Professional Groups; Chemistry Texts Ill-Suited for Average High School Student; High School...
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JAE: Of Interest to Teachers
Kindergarten-Lifelong
This Journal of Adventist Education column features current news, reports, and updates of interest to educators. In this issue: Panel Calls Dropouts $20-Billion Challenge to Society; Student Service Jobs Have Lasting Effects; Schools in 2000; Business-education...
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Journey to Excellence (J2E) Website
Kindergarten-Grade 12
Dynamically guiding Seventh-day Adventist education into the 21st century this philosophy-based school improvement and change model is built on the primary components of the earlier FACT-21 report. Philosophy, Goals, Essential Core Elements, and Preferred...
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Journey to Excellence PowerPoint Presentation
Kindergarten-Grade 12
A PowerPoint Presentation of Journey to Excellence, a model for school improvement in Adventist schools that includes Philosophy, Goals, Essential Core Elements, and Preferred Practices.
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Looking For Opportunities To Build Your School?
Kindergarten-Grade 12
Marilyn Ilchuk looks at two sides of building relationships: nurturing and confrontation. She examines the role each plays in shaping the relationship the school has with the community.
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Mediocre, Pretty Good or Excellent?
Kindergarten-Grade 12
Seventh-day Adventist educators demand a standard of excellence in moral conduct as well as excellence in their students' physical, social, mental and spiritual areas of life. Jackie Kemperle suggests that in order for this to be maintained, parents, students,...
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Michigan Conference Bible Labs Powerpoint
Kindergarten-Grade 12
"This PowerPoint was given at Education Summit, March 2006. It gives a brief history of the goals and mission of Bible Labs." Examples of past and current projects in Michigan schools are included, with ten tips for effective Bible Labs as service...
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Parents and Teachers-- Working Together to Prevent Adolescent Drug Use
Grade 5-Grade 12
This JAE article examines how parent groups can work cooperatively with school and community leaders to prevent adolescent drug and alcohol use. The National Federation of Parents for Drug Free Youth is the national network organization for these groups. Parent...
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Partnering for Success With Information Literacy
Kindergarten-Lifelong
Educators and students need to be information literate to effectively navigate today's information overload. How can classroom teachers and librarians equip students with these skills? The school librarian can help the teacher incorporate technology and multiple...
