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Do We Write the Way We Talk? Thoughts on Tone
Well, I’m going to write the way I talk for this blog post. The decision to write the way you talk, or your choice of…
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When Light Shines in Darkness
Beth Agner ’05, the lead DCE at Hope Lutheran Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina, came to Concordia University Irvine with a love of numbers and accounting, and has…
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Masters In Coaching Episode XLI: Basketball Coach Ken Ammann
He was a standout basketball player at Stanford, assistant coach, and now two decades as the head basketball coach at Concordia University Irvine with a…
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Wall of Math Knowledge: Letting Students Take Responsibility of Their Math Learning
Every year it is documented that the gap in math learning is widening (National Center for Education Statistics, 2021).
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Masters In Coaching Episode XLIII: Volleyball Coach Bret Almazan-Cezar
Nearly three decades as a volleyball coach and teacher, national coach of the year, multiple national championships, CIF champions, too many times, and now he’s…
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A Delicious Lesson on Integrating Quotes
Think of the perfect chocolate chip cookie. The top is golden-brown. The cookie is soft, but not underbaked. The chocolate chips are distributed throughout, giving…
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Zooming in on the Human Genome
Parker Hicks ’22, a biology major, took a side interest in coding as an undergraduate, taught himself a programming language, then applied for a National Science Foundation…
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Alumni Brew Up Success in Coffee Industry: A Higher Brew
Joshua McArthur, MA ’22, loves coffee and ministry, and when he wanted to re-focus his career from accounting to organizational leadership, he checked out several programs…
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Life in God’s Vineyard
Cindy Steinbeck, MA ’02, and Steve Schedler ’84 both spent years serving as Directors of Christian Education (DCE), supporting Concordia in various ways, and walking through…
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Organizational Change in Theory and Practice
There are nearly as many theories of change as there are theories of leadership, ranging from anachronous armchair advice to pithy philosophical prescription.
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Masters In Coaching Episode XLIV: Football Coach Jerry Campbell
From California to Texas to everywhere in between, he has coached football for nearly 50 years, and he’s written 47 books about the sport; he…
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[Placeholder Title] – Change Later: The Importance of Placeholders in Essay Writing
The first words of an essay can be torture to write. With no clear idea as to the direction of the paper, a frustrated writer…
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Listen more, talk less.
There are so many lessons to learn as educational leaders, but the most important is always this…
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At-Risk Students: Success and Interventions
An at-risk student is a student who is at risk of not meeting academic or social expectations or of not graduating from high school. At-risk…
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3 Tips for Citing Credible Sources … Trust Me
The common neo-Aristotelean method of rhetorical criticism examines three aspects of rhetoric: Logos (appeal to logic), ethos (appeal to credibility), and pathos (appeal to emotion).…