Steven gives eight words—submission, humility, honesty, ask, confess, struggle, obey, and listen—that characterize the learner's relationship with his mentors. In the context of these disciplines, says Steven, we can experience...

In order to serve the Lord in our schools, we must accept the challenge to discipline our thoughts. Steven outlines the big questions with which we must engage: questions of reality, of God, of absolutes, and of significance.

Science, says Steven, is best taught with dramatic demonstrations and great enthusiasm. Using a number of experiments, Steven talks through the principles of using demonstrations to teach chemistry and physics.

Steven challenges teachers to spur student learning with three necessary elementd: facts communicated with pizazz, engagement in careful thinking, and opportunities for creative expression. If any part is missing, says Steven,...

How can we train our students to think? Steven suggests several key techniques.

Steven leads the group in developing tools for deductive analysis, a discipline well suited for secondary classrooms

Can the challenges in conservative Anabaptism be solved by learning to think better? In a class discussion, Steven Brubaker urges Anabaptist teachers not to view their primary task as raising great thinkers. We are called to live...

Although at first he strongly resisted his friends' suggestions to publish a book on teaching, Christopher Dock's School Management became the first book on education published in the United States. Dock was a Mennonite immigrant...

Steven spent ten years as teacher and principal of a Mennonite school in Barnwell, South Carolina, before coming to Faith Builders. As the administrator of Faith Builders and the FB Resource Group, Steven is committed to...

Developing a vision for administration is important. Steven addresses jumping on board with the greater vision of Anabaptist schools, while realizing personal responsibility and vision. He raises several questions: What are we...

As an administrator, it is important to learn how to love those you serve by valuing diversity and promoting unity. Steven offers practical steps in working together to accomplishe these goals.Courtesy FBEP.

Becoming what we seem is extremely important for the administrator. We must be men and women of character. The path to genuine trustworthiness is walking well through suffering by standing in grace, rejoicing in suffering, and...