Schedule
August 2-4, 2023
10:00 am - 2:00 pm EDT
Time Zone Conversion:
Los Angeles: 7:00 am – 11:00 am | Denver: 8:00 am – 12:00 pm | Houston: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm | New York: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
UTC: 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm | UK: 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm | Indonesia: 9:00 pm – 1:00 am
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Wednesday, August 2
Doors open 30 minutes prior.
10:00 am EST
Mainstage
Life Purpose | Dr. Rick Christman, Mainstage
11:00 am EST
Breakout Sessions 1
Multiple Speakers, Sessions Area
“I can do all things…” doesn’t mean I should. Because no one else will do it, doesn’t mean I should. Join us to hear how the Lord debunked these and other misconceptions to lead to a rekindled passion for His work during my time at CIU.
In this session we will discuss foundational truth that CIA provides, serves as the plumbline for the mountain of education as it provides a catalyst to cultural reformation in our society. God’s redeeming work through His people create a stabilizing effect on the culture as they look to His leading, believe for His interventions, and act as His representatives.
What’s the point of going to class if there’s no mystery to explore? How can we foster curiosity in our students? What makes for a good question?
Dr. Williams will share how her educational experience at CIU contributes to life long learning and success!
12:00 pm EST
Mainstage
Don't Forget! | Jeremy Kingsley, Mainstage
1:00 pm EST
Breakout Sessions 2
Multiple Speakers, Sessions Area
A passion for school administration, the importance of maintaining one’s connection to teaching while in a leadership role, and the importance of personal mentoring—all of these things I learned through my connection to Dr. Roy Lowrie III while at CIU. They have impacted my ministry in the past two decades in China, up until the present day.
Trauma-informed care has helped schools meet the emotional needs of children dealing with trauma. A loved-informed classroom takes an extra step to help classrooms create a Biblical love-informed environment. According to 1 Corinthians 13, if we don’t have love, we actually don’t have anything. If we are going to reach the heart of this generation, we need to understand the Biblical definition of love and execute love-informed strategies in the classroom.
After graduating from CIU with an M.Ed in Curriculum and Instruction, Anne Marie assumed she would be teaching in Christian Schools. However, God had different plans. Join Anne Marie as she discusses how God can take one plan and transform it to be used around the world. Maybe you are thinking too small?
How does a parent, teacher, or administrator process the life and family impact of a child with a serious medical and/or cognitive issue in light of God’s Word? This session is a view through the eyes of an educator who lives with the tension of such an event, working to balance school ministry and life by addressing four questions. How do you come to terms with a crisis? What is life really like for the family? How can you pull alongside in ministry? What is God’s plan in this event?
1:45 pm EST
Networking and Expo Area
Networking Area, Expo Area
Ever stand in line at a conference and strike up a conversation with the person behind you? That is what the networking space is all about!
Share your audio and video (it’s easy) and jump on-screen with another person from the conference. Spend three minutes getting to know him or her and voila! You have made a new connection.
The expo area is filled with vendors (just as if it were an in-person expo hall) who have resources designed specifically for YOU!
You can usually find really valuable freebies here! Don’t miss this space.
Thursday, August 3
Doors open 30 minutes prior.
10:00 am EST
Mainstage
Dr. Todd Marrah, Mainstage
11:00 am EST
Breakout Sessions 1
Multiple Speakers, Sessions Area
Transformation in education happens when there is deep learning. Education is about learning, not teaching. Deep learning is about learning that lasts long and impacts life.
Creating a culture where students feel loved and nurtured is the most important step in fostering successful student achievement. When relationships are not established, optimum learning cannot occur.
A story about the speaker’s learning experiences while she was studying at CIU. Experiences that has changed her whole understanding about Christian education, redeeming her from secular-spiritual divide way of living, and learning experiences which inspired her to model what she has seen and tell others about it.
When God created each of us, He placed His image within us, then he placed us in His specially created world where we could thrive. We were designed to tend to this world (care for, enjoy, understand, and use), learning from Him as we spent time in His presence. God, Himself would be our teacher. As sin entered our world, we have distanced ourselves from God’s perspective and tried to understand and communicate our understanding and knowledge of the world from our man made perspective. This has resulted in our compartmenalizing academic knowledge and spiritual knowledge. The Christian teacher should and can breakdown these compartments and teach the students to begin to see academic knowledge from God’s perspective. This session will provide some basic knowledge and skills that can help you begin to design your teaching to communicate your academic content from this God-oriented viewpoint.
12:00 pm EST
Mainstage
Making Fishers of Men Through Christian Education | Dr. Annie Gallagher, Mainstage
1:00 pm EST
Breakout Sessions 2
Multiple Speakers, Sessions Area
Being aware of Spiritual formation and giving space for spiritual disciplines to be practiced in our classrooms can bring transformation in student’s lives. Students are anxious and looking for peace. As students learn to meet God through out their day, they will experience his love for them.
One cannot deny that education is an interconnected multifaceted experience. Relationships in school matter. Yet, relationships cannot be established, maintained, or restored without teacher to student rapport. Rapport is a catalyst to healthy reciprocal relationships, student learning, and flourishing school communities. The teacher plays an integral role in making those connections with students and fostering rapport. For Christian schools, students are believed to be image bearers, and teachers are seen as instruments to steward, love, and model the desires of living in accordance with God’s design. Thus, teachers are to be intentional in making these connections and establishing rapport. This session will reveal six practices from a recent study that sought to identify practices that teachers perceived to be most important for fostering teacher-student rapport in Christian schools.
The goal of this workshop is to provide a very specific tool (4 frames) by which a leader can analyze any challenge, correctly identifying what are the true roots (not simply the perceived roots) to the problem. Being able to correctly analyze the issue will then direct the administrator to correctly resolve the issue. Truth based decision making is pivotal to Christian leadership, and it is often played out in the gospels where Jesus does not address the perceived issue, but the true issue of the hearts (e.g. telling the paralytic first that his sins were forgiven instead of first telling him to get up and walk).
Dr. Jaeger will share some of his experiences in CIU’s PhD program in Educational Leadership as well as how he has learned to apply what he’s learned at Impact 360 Institute and beyond.
1:45 pm EST
Networking and Expo Area
Networking Area, Expo Area
Ever stand in line at a conference and strike up a conversation with the person behind you? That is what the networking space is all about!
Share your audio and video (it’s easy) and jump on-screen with another person from the conference. Spend three minutes getting to know him or her and voila! You have made a new connection.
The expo area is filled with vendors (just as if it were an in-person expo hall) who have resources designed specifically for YOU!
You can usually find really valuable freebies here! Don’t miss this space.
Friday, August 4
Doors open 30 minutes prior.
10:00 am EST
Mainstage
The Role of the College of Education in Fulfilling the Mission of CIU: Impacting the Next Generation with the Message of Christ | Dr. Milt Uecker, Mainstage
11:00 am EST
Breakout Sessions 1
Multiple Speakers, Sessions Area
Utilizing textbook references from CIU’s classes about supervision, assessment, and technology in daily school administrative life, while adjusting to common practices that differ from the textbook references.
Key individuals from CIU shaped my perspective and methods of ministry to children. As a public-school teacher and a leader in Child Evangelism Fellowship, a highlight of my life and ministry has been to share the Gospel to children while enlisting and encouraging others in this work.
Play is a tool that educators should employ to benefit an anxious generation of learners.
| In Ephesians 4, Paul described how we Christians are to put off our old manner of living and put on the new self, modeled after Christ. This session will help participants reflect on what that means for an educator. We will look at 3 perspectives: person, purpose, and practice, and consider how we can be distinctively different for our Lord’s glory. |
12:00 pm EST
Mainstage
CIU's Influence on Being Distinctly Christian in Thought and Career | Dr. Michael Johnson Mainstage
1:00 pm EST
Breakout Sessions 2
Multiple Speakers, Sessions Area
What is redemptive education? Troubled by mindlessness? How to redeem the minds in a VUCA world?
As Christian educators we have good intentions to guide our students toward spiritual growth. At the end of the year as we reflect on our “good intentions”, did we make use of the time given us? Will intentionality in our planning make a difference? Join this session to review areas of being intentional in our planning to guide students toward spiritual growth.
The science of reading is a vast, interdisciplinary body of scientifically-based knowledge about reading and issues related to reading and writing. The session will cover Scarborough’s Reading Rope, the simple view of reading, the 5 pillars of reading, and how to implement explicit methods of teaching reading in the classroom. Because each child is an image-bearer of Christ, with their own unique timeline of maturation, Christian schools need to serve all children as they grow through various stages of reading. This seminar will help teachers and administrators understand how to use The Science of Reading practices to assist students along their reading journey.
Love and Logic is an effective classroom management philosophy developed by Drs. Jim and Charles Fay that couple’s effective management and discipline techniques with grace and student ownership. The principles of Love and Logic: Mutual dignity and respect, sincere empathy, shared thinking, shared control within limits, and healthy relationships are foundational to a teacher’s success in the classroom. This session will explore the benefits of these principles while providing meaningful applicational practice, Biblical truth, and modeling. Join Dr. Joseph Craft, Associate Professor of Education at Columbia International University and instructor of management and behavior, as he shares the real truth of managing a class and how you too can be effective in the classroom. This session is perfect for all teachers, regardless of the grade you teach. New and seasoned teachers are encouraged to attend.
1:45 pm EST
Networking and Expo Area
Networking Area, Expo Area
Ever stand in line at a conference and strike up a conversation with the person behind you? That is what the networking space is all about!
Share your audio and video (it’s easy) and jump on-screen with another person from the conference. Spend three minutes getting to know him or her and voila! You have made a new connection.
The expo area is filled with vendors (just as if it were an in-person expo hall) who have resources designed specifically for YOU!
You can usually find really valuable freebies here! Don’t miss this space.