The entire teaching staff and many of the support staff were privileged to attend the fifty seventh annual Association of Christian Schools International Teachers Convention on the 11th and 12th of October. The convention was held at the Sacramento Convention Center.
The enduring mega-theme of the convention was “Teaching to Transform”. Teachers were challenged to teach to cultivate potential in Christ. Author Dallas Willard stated this challenge best in his recent best selling book The Great Omission: “So the greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as “Christian” will become disciples, students, apprentices, practitioners of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.”
As a result of these types of events we trust that our teachers will cultivate and disciple the young men and women with whom we have been given stewardship more effectively, and will ourselves become more committed and effective disciples.