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Mark your calendars. We’re planning a new, WEEK-long Sore Knees Challenge beginning this coming Wednesday, December 30 and continuing through January 6. Our focus will be new birth. Click here … Continue reading

December 12, 2015 · 6 Comments

Songs of Assent

What does Birth do for us? It fills the hungry with good things and initiates The Great Reversal. This week join Kimberly Todd in singing the songs of assent to Birth’s work in us and our students.

December 9, 2015 · 1 Comment

The Song of Freedom

What does Birth do for us? It crushes the curse and sings a song of freedom. This week join Melissa K. Smith in singing that song to yourself and over your students and colleagues.

December 2, 2015 · 2 Comments

Potato Perspective

Even potatoes can teach a lesson. Melissa K. Smith shows how the role of potatoes in the lives of some students have taught her about gratitude and the art of sharing.

November 18, 2015 · 6 Comments

The Best of the Best

Heather Peterson recounts an experience where her students became her teacher, and she learned that the Master Teacher always asks for the best.

November 11, 2015 · Leave a comment

Dear Teacher

Robin Gingerich has given workshops to teachers in many different countries, but one group of teachers in Ukraine touched her heart in a special way.

November 4, 2015 · Leave a comment

Who Fills the Seats

From his home in Tianjin, China, Mark Wickersham visits Master Teaching with a story about learning, humbly, to teach different types of students.

October 28, 2015 · Leave a comment

Inside Out

This week Melissa K. Smith tells about a lesson the Master Teacher is currently teaching her through students and colleagues.

October 21, 2015 · 2 Comments

The Problem with Pagodas

Recently retired, Maggie Courtright tells a story from her early days in the classroom. The lesson learned has carried her through years of teaching on three continents.

October 14, 2015 · Leave a comment

Sore Knees Report

With thanksgiving, we close out the Sore Knees Challenge. Your realms of service and ours are as far-flung as we are distant from each other–Mongolia to the United States, Haiti … Continue reading

October 7, 2015 · 2 Comments

Sore Knees: Advocate

This week’s key word is advocate, mediating within and between people, in this world and at the throne.

September 30, 2015 · 2 Comments

Sore Knees: Relate

This week’s key word is “relate” which we define as standing shoulder to shoulder with the ignored or forgotten as we move toward a happily ever after together.

September 23, 2015 · 2 Comments

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