LEA News
About the Convocation…
Stay current on Convocation news and in weekly issues of LEAnews, sent to your mailbox twice each week during the school year.
Convocation bargain?
Convocation planners are no strangers to the efforts most schools need to budget for the Convocation. If your board or others waver at the value of expenditures, consider the ASCD Conference on Teaching Excellence, where member registration is $429 and room rates are $158.
Go to Grow!
Have you visited the Convocation page or registration page lately? About Thursday afternoon following the opening event: You’ll have some choices here that you haven’t had in previous Convocations. The Grand Gallery Experience will be like strolling through a greenhouse of growing activities. You can visit Show & Grow poster sessions (think science fair) where you can move from one poster to the next for ideas from other teachers to use in your classroom. You might find a few games and other growing experiences. And for a more traditional experience, the greenhouse also includes five featured sectionals and presenters.
Pick what you like!
You’ll notice a mix of 30-minute and 60-minute sectionals when you register for the Convocation. Register away! If you want to overlap choices, go ahead! You have permission to leave early or arrive late (and miss part of the presentation) as necessary.
Looking for more to do at the Convocation?
Do you have a volunteer’s heart? Would you like to help your colleagues at the Convocation? Volunteer opportunities abound!
Grow A Teacher
LEA's goal is to bring 100 future Lutheran school teachers to the 2016 LEA Convocation. To this end, LEA members, schools, friends, and classes are invited to help. Donations will be matched in part from other generous large donors. LEA itself has pledged $11,000 toward the effort to meeting the $46,000 total need. Students selected to attend will receive full registration and access to the Convocation program plus a special pre-Convocation event. A student team and Rev. Ryan Peterson from Concordia University, Ann Arbor and LEA staff are leading the planning for the Grow A Teacher event. Donations are accepted online, via surface mail, and by phone at 708-209-3343. You may also add a donation to the shopping cart when you register to attend the Convocation.
Highlights from weekly issues of LEAnews
Webinars
LEA will continue its popular webinar series during the upcoming school year. Be sure to check out the current offerings. Also check out the archived webinars —recordings of all previous webinars.
Board of Directors appointments
LEA’s board of directors have selected David Bangert (Dallas, Tex.), Michael Yurk (Grafton, Wis.), and Michael Zimmer (Elmhurst, Ill.) to replace outgoing board members Daniel Czaplewski, Mark L’Heureux, and Kim Marxhausen. Changes took effect July 1. Thanks to all for their willing service!
Alliance meeting
LEA staff, LCMS School Ministry, and Association for Lutheran Secondary Schools (ALSS) met in St. Louis several times and made significant progress toward developing a joint administrators conference in 2018 as well as discussing other issues of potential cooperation or collaboration.
What is Christian education?
A biblical, Christian worldview is central to Christian education. For a good—and comprehensive—understanding of the strategies used to integrate faith into the curriculum, see Approaches to Christian Education: From Elusive Towards Larger and Deeper Approach by Derek Schuurman and the Center for the Advancement of Christian Education (CACE). Note: Don’t let the opening paragraphs fool you into thinking the article is aimed only at higher education. It’s for all teachers in Lutheran schools too.
Trying to get kids to attend church?
All too often, it’s an elusive goal, right? Maybe some of The Top 10 Steps to Help Kids Connect to Church can help. (Church Leaders)
Concerned about transgender issues?
See “Male and Female He Created Them: Protecting the Vulnerable in the Transgender Public Facilities Debate” from the Human Care Leader Blog. (LCMS)
Legal issues facing LCMS schools
Listen to a KFUO recording about the tough critical issues resulting from recent legislation. The program aired in spring and includes comments by Terry Schmidt from LCMS School Ministry and Bart Day from LCMS National Mission. You might also be interested in the Free to Be Faithful piece from Reporter Online.
Write for Shaping the Future
LEA is looking for writers in front-line ministries for articles in future Shaping the Future magazine pieces.
What to write about? Something unique that you do in your ministry:
- Solving common Lutheran education problems
- Heart-warming story that developed within your ministry
- Tips for teaching faith and Scripture across the curriculum
- Any topic that will help colleagues grow in their ministry to children, youth, adults, or older adults.
If you would like to write, contact ed.grube@lea.org to express and discuss your interests.
