- What are some kinds of community services that might interest you?
- How would your congregation feel about that?
- In what ways might you serve community service providers?
- What are your school’s two or three greatest leadership challenges?
- Why are leadership challenges so difficult in small staffs? Large staffs?
- What from the article could you take to your next board meeting?
- What conversations or reflections have you had concerning the future of Lutheran education?
- What obstacles need to be overcome in planning for the future?
- What role will you play?
- What role might you play in global Lutheran education outside of your country?
- What activities might you do with your class to familiarize them with Lutheran schools and their students around the world?
- In what ways is your school part of a global outreach mission?
- What can you do to help children better understand the “finer points” of chapel and religion lessons?
- Share with colleagues—including your pastor(s)—some of your own humorous stories about kids as they learn about Jesus.
- How can you share this article with a pastor in a way that will not offend him?
ECEnet: Building Effective Relationships With Parents
- If you know the families of incoming children, what are you prepared to do for parents who may pose a relational challenge?
- Identify your own relational challenges. What hits your “hot button” or aggravates you most? How will you address these challenges?
- Which of the passages quoted in the article might you want to prominently adopt as your motto for the coming year?
EncourAGEnet: Reconnect with Your Alma Mater
- What benefits have you realized from your ongoing connections with your alma mater?
- Take a few moments to reminisce about favorite experiences at your alma mater.
- What can you do in gratitude for your alma mater?
ETnet: Woodwork Would Work
- Do your students do any unique projects? Take a moment to share them with your colleagues at etnet@listserv.cuis.edu or midnet@listserv.cuis.edu.
- What are some unique projects you would like to try with your class?
- What are the risks and precautions one must take in any unique project? Are clear communications or permissions needed?
GLEnet: Chinese Students in U.S. Lutheran Schools
- What appeals most to you about including Chinese students in your school?
- What major obstacles would you need to overcome?
- Whose help would you need to enlist?
LEADnet: Stop Putting Out Fires. Start Lighting Them!
- Which of your “fires” need to be put out for good?
- What are a few you would like to start?
- What “fuel” will you need to get the “fire” burning?
MIDnet: Preparing Our Students to Witness
- What do you need to do to be a good witnessing model for students? (Strengthen your efforts; see the LEA Monograph, “Why Apologize? Engaging challenges to the faith for educators in Lutheran ministries” by Michael Eschelbach, Fall 2009)
- What adaptations might you need for students who are “developmentally new” to the Christian faith or biblical knowledge? Students of different faiths?
- How can you assess the success of this project?
PEN: Flipped Confirmation: A Year-long Case Study
- What adaptations might you need in a smaller congregation or confirmation group?
- How do you think your congregation and its leaders would react if you proposed a program like this?
- Under what circumstances might a process like this not work?
SECnet: Hope and Healing for Whole Communities
- What other Lutheran high school programs provide a similar initiative? How do they compare?
- Which of the areas might your high school wish to emulate or adapt? What resources would you need?
- Why is it essential to bring faith and life together for Lutheran high school students?
