An Anabaptist Resource for Teaching and Learning
Kendra Martin
Kendra Martin was first known in the private Anabaptist educational world as “Miss Stoltzfus.” She taught in an elementary school for eight years and loved it. However, as much as she enjoyed teaching, she found that she equally enjoyed studying. After spending several summers studying at Faith Builders Educational Programs, she paused her teaching career to pursue a Bachelor’s in Early Childhood Education and Special Education through a local university. After marriage and graduation, she moved into Reading, PA and began teaching within the inner-city public school system. After her first son was born, she said good-bye to the traditional classroom. She still misses it, dreams of it, and believes she is called to the educational realm of God’s Kingdom. Currently she is living out that calling by teaching her two sons, teaching first and second grade for a home school group twice a month, teaching children within her local church setting, and using her blog to share ideas and inspiration on how to create learning environments for those under our care. To read more, visit creatinglearningenvironments.com.
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Over the years, teachers have become very creative with helping students get through the winter slump–those months between Christmas Read More...
What is a better way to countdown to Christmas vacation as a teacher than with great picture books that focuses Read More...
Our experience When I noticed that my two year old was not speaking as clearly as his older brother had Read More...
This is the time of the year when I start screening students entering the classroom in the fall. For two Read More...
Can we predict if students will succeed or struggle before they begin their school journey? Over the past several years, Read More...
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It wasn’t until I started teaching first grade that I began to see the seasonal changes in our world through Read More...
Communication can make or break your school year. From the onset, you want to be intentional on communicating your expectations Read More...
At the end of a school term, I sent off my students with a list of fifty tasks to complete Read More...
Due to COVID-19, many of us are experiencing a longer summer vacation than normal. And even if your summer vacation Read More...
I realized that I never truly appreciated the change of seasons until I became a teacher and observed the children’s Read More...
For many of our private schools, kindergarten only runs several days of the week or starts in the second half Read More...
Whether it is in a book that we read, news that we hear, a label that we read, or in Read More...
Winter is the perfect time to find a cozy book and snuggle down to read. In a classroom where literacy Read More...
Studies done on children are showing a huge difference in vocabulary—a gap of up to 15 million words by the Read More...
When we think of commandments in the Bible, these come to mind: “Be ye kind one to another,” “Love your Read More...
Most of us have been reading for all of our remembered life, and reading comprehension comes as naturally as driving Read More...
I spent eight years teaching at an Anabaptist school; and to be honest, the least favorite part of my winter Read More...
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The Dock is conceived to serve schools in the spirit of Christopher Dock, the devoted teacher who authored a warmly practical teacher's manual in colonial America. Read more...
