The Hopeful Collaboration Changing Local Schools

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary What does hopeful collaboration look like in the context of education? In this episode, we had the privilege of interviewing Tracey Beal, founder and CEO of School Connect, a model of strategic collaboration that helps […]

Leading to Bridge the Empathy Gap with Christy Vines

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary This week the Faith & Work Podcast wraps up its three-part series on leadership. For this episode Joanna Meyer and Abby Worland interview Christy Vines. Christy Vines is the president and CEO of Ideos Institute, […]

Virtue and Vice at Work: Love featuring Kara Martin

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary The Faith & Work Podcast is wrapping up its series of Virtue and Vice at Work. In this week’s final episode, Joanna Meyer and Abby Worland discuss the virtue of love in the workplace with […]

How a Bible Written Before Stock Markets Can Guide Stock Investing

This article was written by Greg Forster, and was originally published by Eventide Center for Faith & Investing. Reposted with permission.We want our investing to be guided by the Bible. But the Bible doesn’t talk directly about modern markets, because they didn’t exist when it was written. What do we do?In part one, we saw […]

Living Your Faith in the Public Square

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary What does it look like to live faithfully in the public square? How can Christians navigate and engage the difficulties of today’s political divide? In this episode, Joanna Meyer and Dustin Moody talk with former […]

S7E2: Dr. Mary Poplin on Worldviews and Our Work

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary What are the dominant worldviews in culture today, and how do they impact our work? How can educators recognize and understand these worldviews for their students? Dr. Mary Poplin, professor in the School of Educational […]

Dustin Moody
Shaping Hearts and Minds

Editor’s note: Denver Institute for Faith & Work is excited to explore the importance of character formation in education. In this post, we’re highlighting the unique approach to character formation at New Legacy Charter School, a school for teen parents founded by Jennifer Douglas. Jennifer joins us as a panelist for Character Formation in K-12 […]

S2E10: Shaping Student Character with Matthew Hoening

Do you like The Faith & Work Podcast? Be sure to subscribe! Now available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Summary How do educators shape the character of students as well as their minds? How can Christian teachers integrate character-development practices into secular schools? Joanna Meyer and Dustin Moody talk with Matt Hoening, an educator, pastor, […]

Jeff Haanen
Being a Christian Teacher in Public Education

Dr. Mary Poplin, Professor of Education at Claremont Graduate University, joined Denver Institute for our forum on education in 2016. With her wisdom, we had the chance to see and hear what it means to follow Christ as a public school teacher in America today. She fluidly moved between her research on highly effective teachers […]

Jeff Haanen
Broader, Not Deeper

What will allow more pastors to see the importance of work for their church and its mission? How might the faith and work movement help pastors and seminaries to embrace ministry models that equip men and women to serve Christ in the wide array of professions in our culture today? And why is this so […]

Jeff Haanen
An Interview with Bill Kurtz, CEO of DSST Public Schools

A decade ago, with a 55 percent dropout rate, Denver Public Schools had become a “dropout epicenter.” But where most saw a hopeless situation, Bill Kurtz saw opportunity. Since founding Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) in 2003, the growing network of schools has produced stunning results: Average ACT scores rose to 24.6 (the […]

Jeff Haanen
What Mary Poplin Taught Us About Being a Christian Teacher in Public Education

In a previous post, I summarized an interview I did with Dr. Mary Poplin, Professor of Education at Claremont Graduate University. In the previous post, Poplin challenged constructivism, shared her findings with highly effective teachers, and encouraged teachers to teach about religion in public schools in a way that is fair and truthful to each […]

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