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Focus & Equip (2010.03): How focused are you on achieving your mission?

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  • How often do you focus others on developing SMART action steps?
  • How focused are you on achieving your mission?
  • What are your goals?
  • What 3 things do you want from your principal or colleagues?
  • How can peer coaching help your students apply a Biblical perspective throughout their essays?
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Focus & Equip (2010.02): What drives your organization’s improvement?

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  • To encourage coaching, get staff to ask questions
  • What drives your organization’s improvement?
  • Empower others to use assessment to help students apply creation-fall-redemption-restoration
  • Empower others to consider how to get students to understand that there’s a Biblical perspective of course content
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Focus & Equip (2010.01): These 6 videos can help you close the gap

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  1. These 6 videos can help you close the gap
  2. How often do you follow the 80/20 Rule?
  3. How are proposals related to your mission?
  4. Can God help?
  5. What 3 ways will you involve parents?
  6. How can peer coaching help your students include Biblical perspective in their thesis statements?
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Focus & Equip (2009.12): How focused is your staff on organizational improvement?

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  • How often do you empower others to develop SMART action steps?
  • How focused is your staff on organizational improvement?
  • Students connect Holocaust memoir and Biblical teaching
  • Empower others to help students see the importance of Biblical perspective
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Focus & Equip (2009.11): How do your daily activities contribute to your mission?

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  1. How often do you empower others to brainstorm options?
  2. How do your daily activities contribute to your mission?
  3. How are your mission, goals, and daily activities connected?
  4. What 3 ways will you decorate your room?
  5. How can peer coaching help your students use relevant Bible verses?
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Focus & Equip (2009.10): How involved are your stakeholders in organizational improvement?

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  1. How often do you empower others to explore their current reality?
  2. How involved are your stakeholders in organizational improvement?
  3. Teacher encouraged by assessment results
  4. Empower others to give students opportunities to think through answers for themselves
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Focus & Equip (2009.09): How often do you talk about your mission?

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  1. How often are you clear on the other person’s goal?
  2. How often do you talk about your mission?
  3. What’s God doing?
  4. How can you increase the impact of professional development?
  5. What 3 things will you put on your course handouts?
  6. How can peer coaching help your students use relevant Biblical principles?
  7. Empower others to help students connect course content, the Bible, and life
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Focus & Equip (2009.08): Want to learn more about closing the gap?

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  1. How can you empower others even more effectively?
  2. Want to learn more about closing the gap?
  3. Watch a video
  4. How well does your staff understand what’s involved in organizational improvement?
  5. What's creation-fall-redemption-restoration?
  6. Ask your students difficult questions
  7. How good is your assessment?
  8. What are your students’ learning needs?
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Focus & Equip (2009.07): How can you manage yourself more effectively?

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  1. Empower others to strategically pursue God's calling
  2. Lead by asking questions
  3. Don't equate your God-given mission with busyness or productivity
  4. How can you manage yourself more effectively?
  5. What makes a good meeting good?
  6. What 3 Bible verses will you help your students memorize, understand, and apply?
  7. How can you help your students make connections?
  8. Engage your students by telling stories and asking questions
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Focus & Equip (2009.06): How focused are you on close the gap?

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  1. Ask questions to help those around you
  2. How focused are you on closing the gap?
  3. Schedule your key priorities first
  4. Enhance your organization’s improvement system
  5. Help your students connect 3 things
  6. Provide training in creation-fall-redemption-restoration
  7. How can you help your students develop a Christ-centered worldview?
  8. Student applies creation-fall-redemption-restortion to nature
  9. Meet your students' learning needs regarding creation-fall-redemption-restoration
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Focus & Equip (2009.05): How can training help you increase focus on your mission?

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  • Ask questions to help others prioritize
  • How can training help you increase focus on your mission?
  • Eliminate your frustrations
  • What 3 student learning needs will you meet?
  • Faith nurture through essential questions
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Focus & Equip (2009.04): What will you do to achieve your goals?

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  • What will you do to achieve your goals?
  • Provide your staff with feedback
  • Why a Biblical worldview is critically important
  • Rigorous assessment inspires student learning
  • To empower others to help students learn key vocabulary terms, DRAW them out
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Focus & Equip (2009.03): Target your strengths

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  1. What are your options for achieving your goals?
  2. Protocols made more accessible
  3. Focus on mission, results, and measures
  4. Target your strengths
  5. Ask questions to provide accountability
  6. Use the 1-2-3 lesson model
  7. Develop a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum
  8. What 3 engaging instructional strategies will you use?
  9. To empower others to consider a question they will ask students, DRAW them out
  10. A case for quality faith integrated assessments 
  11. To empower others to meet student learning needs, DRAW them out
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Focus & Equip (2009.02): Supervise your staff

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  1. What helps/hinders you in achieving your goals?
  2. Supervise your staff
  3. Ask a question
  4. Use 8 questions to reflect on a subject area
  5. Ask questions about creation-fall-redemption-restoration
  6. To help your students make connections, what unit assessments do you give?
  7. Give opportunities for student choice
  8. Help students address difficulties and dilemmas
  9. Help your students understand how you teach from a Biblical perspective
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Focus & Equip (2009.01): How can a scorecard help you increase focus on your mission?

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  1. What is coaching?
  2. What could you work on with a coach?
  3. How can a scorecard help you increase focus on your mission?
  4. Pay attention to your goals
  5. Ensure a common understanding of expectations and definitions
  6. What 3 types of assessment will you use?
  7. Students say questions help them make connections
  8. Video: Biblical perspective assessment helps
  9. Have your students do reflective writing
  10. Video: DEAL with student learning needs
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Focus & Equip (2008.12): Encourage reflective practice

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  • What's it take to carry out your God-given mission?
  • Encourage reflective practice
  • Regarding a guaranteed, viable Biblical perspective curriculum, what are the opportunities/problems?
  • Require your students to make connections
  • Show your students what using a Biblical perspective looks like
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Focus & Equip (2008.11): How can measurement help you increase focus on your mission?

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  • What’s your mission?
  • How can measurement help you increase focus on your mission?
  • Get support, encouragement, and accountability
  • Teachers document Biblical principles in curriculum maps
  • Here’s a list of questions you can ask your students
  • Students grapple with shalom
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Focus & Equip (2008.10): Want to achieve your goals?

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  • What problems/opportunities are you passionate about & blessed by God to address?
  • Want to achieve your goals?
  • SMARTen up your goals
  • Address the personal lives of your staff
  • Develop the big picture of your subject area
  • Make your assessment prompt student-friendly
  • Want to turn your classroom into a hotbed of discussion?
  • Tell narratives and faith stories
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Focus & Equip (2008.09): What do you need to KeepStartStop doing?

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  • How has God blessed you pursue His calling?
  • What do you need to KeepStartStop doing?
  • Secure resources—then start
  • Use staff meetings to reflect on philosophy
  • What 3 Biblical principles will you help your students understand?
  • Use an essential question to focus instruction
  • Ask your students difficult questions
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Focus & Equip (2008.08): Treat Biblical perspective like you really want your students to learn it

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  • Use questions to help your client clarify God’s calling
  • Implement a staff stewardship plan
  • What Biblical integration is an isn't
  • Students can connect course content and Biblical teaching
  • Treat Biblical perspective like you really want your students to learn it
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Focus & Equip (2008.07): How can you increase your focus on your mission?

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  • People grow as they take responsibility
  • How can you increase your focus on your mission?
  • Get organized
  • What 3 behaviors will you model?
  • Asking questions doesn't always work
  • Teach and assess Biblical perspective
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Focus & Equip (2008.06): Answer 8 questions as you plan strategically

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  • Growing is more about motivation than information
  • Principals, use the Rule of 3
  • Answer 8 questions as you plan strategically
  • Take a free Christian education tutorial
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Focus & Equip (2008.05): How focused are you on your God-given mission?

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  • To cultivate a coaching culture, use a set of questions
  • How focused are you on your God-given mission?
  • Video: How to write a SMART goal
  • How can you help your students understand that worldview affects how a person answers questions?
  • Using questions works!
  • Tutorial: Use questions to help students understand and apply a Bilbical perspective
  • Video: Cooperative learning helps students connect course content and Biblical teaching
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Focus & Equip (2008.04): Identify, measure, then take action

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  • As a Christian coach, you're free
  • Identify, measure, then take action
  • To help students make connections, what are the vital teacher behaviors?
  • Assessment helps students apply a Biblical perspective
  • How can you give your students more practice?

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Focus & Equip (2008.03): How do you contribute to mission achievement?

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  • To encourage and empower others, listen
  • How do you contribute to mission achievement?
  • Know where you are and where you want to go
  • What’s success?
  • Questions helped my students apply a Biblical perspective
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Focus & Equip (2008.02): “And” learning, not “or” learning

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  • How can you encourage others?
  • “And” learning, not “or” learning
  • Assign qualified staff, get your staff qualified, or recruit qualified staff
  • News in Brief
  • Biblical perspective teacher training standards developed
  • Assessment helps students more deeply connect what they study, their lives, and a Biblical perspective
  • How can you design assessments so that your students connect a Biblical perspective with their lives?
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Focus & Equip (2008.01): What does it take to achieve your mission?

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  • Need to focus? Get coaching!
  • What does it take to achieve your mission?
  • Draw out, don’t put in
  • YWAM staff deepen LIFE skills
  • Is it important for your students to apply a Biblical perspective to course content?
  • How can your use your questions effectively?
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