Focus & Equip

11/05/11 07:56

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How often do you use affirmation to encourage others?
How can you use key performance indicators to achieve your mission?
Reflect on your goals
To what extent do you provide value-added content?
How committed are you to using questions?

Focus & Equip

08/04/11 07:04

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How often do you use clarification to encourage others?
Leaders, find ways to work smarter
Enhance the facilitation of your team meetings
How can you use your Biblical perspective assessment data?
What will you do to better connect what you teach and what the Bible teaches?

Focus & Equip

10/03/11 08:27

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How often do you use “encouragers” to encourage others?
How can you identify key performance indicators?
Track progress on your goals
Meet student learning needs
To what extent do your unit plans and lesson plans target Biblical perspective?

Focus & Equip

11/02/11 08:03

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How often do you refrain from asking “why” questions?
Use meeting guidelines
Use questions to help your students connect God's world and Word
How exemplary are your Biblical perspective assessments?
How can you better connect what you teach and what the Bible teaches?

Focus & Equip

14/01/11 07:44

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How often do you target understanding?
How can you measure mission achievement?
Plan backwards
Use assessment to help your students connect God's world and Word
What’s your target?
How important is it to post your questions?

Focus & Equip (2010.12): Help your students connect God's world and Word

03/12/10 08:08

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How often do you refrain from criticizing your client?
Design meetings to target results
Help your students connect God's world and Word
Do your assessments require students to connect their lives and what the Bible teaches?
How will you meet your students’ learning needs?

Focus & Equip (2010.11): What’s it take to achieve your organization’s God-given mission?

12/11/10 08:23

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How often do you make inviting statements?
What’s it take to achieve your organization’s God-given mission?
Schedule your action steps
How can you more effectively target Biblical perspective?
How often do you ask your Biblical perspective questions?

Focus & Equip (2010.10): Leaders, empower others by asking questions

06/10/10 07:29

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How often are you interested in what others say?
Leaders, empower others by asking questions
Use assessment to improve team meetings
Do your assessments require students to connect what they study and what the Bible teaches?
What are your students’ learning needs?
What 3 things will you do to help your students?
Help your students connect God's world and Word

Focus & Equip (2010.09): What’s your organization’s God-given mission?

10/09/10 08:41

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How often do you refrain from suggesting options?
What’s your organization’s God-given mission?
Think outside the box
What 3 classroom guidelines will you use?
How effective are your Biblical perspective questions?

Focus & Equip (2010.08): Leaders, pursue excellence

16/08/10 21:37

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How often do you refrain from describing your client’s reality?
Leaders, pursue excellence
Clarify team purpose
How can you more effectively use assessment?
How can you more effectively meet student learning needs?

Focus & Equip (2010.07): Think clearly

02/07/10 20:42

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How can you help others pursue excellence?
Want to serve more effectively? Get focused!
Think clearly
What 3 questions will you ask them?
How can you more effectively use questions to help your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches?

Focus & Equip (2010.06): To what extent are staff held accountable for improvement plans?

09/06/10 20:00

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How can you focus others?
Take a tutorial
To what extent are staff held accountable for improvement plans?
9th graders apply creation-fall-redemption-restoration
Empower teachers to help students understand how teachers teach from a Biblical perspective

Focus & Equip (2010.05): Encourage others to connect their proposals to the mission

13/05/10 20:19

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Check out the new videos
How often do you refrain from giving advice/suggestions?
How focused are you on your God-given mission?
Encourage others to connect their proposals to the mission
What are your action steps?
What 3 things will you do to stay focused?
How can you use questions to help your students apply a Biblical perspective to issues?
How can peer coaching help your students apply a Biblical perspective?

Focus & Equip (2010.04): To what extent do improvement plans guide staff work?

01/04/10 20:38

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How often do you use restatement to encourage others?
To what extent do improvement plans guide staff work?
Students connect memoir, life, and Bibllical teaching
Empower others to help students understand what effective application of a Biblical perspective looks like

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

12/03/10 22:41

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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?

Focus & Equip (2010.02): What drives your organization’s improvement?

04/02/10 08:00

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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

Focus & Equip (2010.01): These 6 videos can help you close the gap

07/01/10 07:51

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These 6 videos can help you close the gap
How often do you follow the 80/20 Rule?
How are proposals related to your mission?
Can God help?
What 3 ways will you involve parents?
How can peer coaching help your students include Biblical perspective in their thesis statements?

Focus & Equip (2009.12): How focused is your staff on organizational improvement?

09/12/09 07:23

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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

Focus & Equip (2009.11): How do your daily activities contribute to your mission?

05/11/09 07:24

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How often do you empower others to brainstorm options?
How do your daily activities contribute to your mission?
How are your mission, goals, and daily activities connected?
What 3 ways will you decorate your room?
How can peer coaching help your students use relevant Bible verses?

Focus & Equip (2009.10): How involved are your stakeholders in organizational improvement?

07/10/09 07:40

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How often do you empower others to explore their current reality?
How involved are your stakeholders in organizational improvement?
Teacher encouraged by assessment results
Empower others to give students opportunities to think through answers for themselves

Focus & Equip (2009.09): How often do you talk about your mission?

10/09/09 07:27

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How often are you clear on the other person’s goal?
How often do you talk about your mission?
What’s God doing?
How can you increase the impact of professional development?
What 3 things will you put on your course handouts?
How can peer coaching help your students use relevant Biblical principles?
Empower others to help students connect course content, the Bible, and life

Focus & Equip (2009.08): Want to learn more about closing the gap?

10/08/09 08:01

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How can you empower others even more effectively?
Want to learn more about closing the gap?
Watch a video
How well does your staff understand what’s involved in organizational improvement?
What's creation-fall-redemption-restoration?
Ask your students difficult questions
How good is your assessment?
What are your students’ learning needs?

Focus & Equip (2009.07): How can you manage yourself more effectively?

03/07/09 08:00

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Empower others to strategically pursue God's calling
Lead by asking questions
Don't equate your God-given mission with busyness or productivity
How can you manage yourself more effectively?
What makes a good meeting good?
What 3 Bible verses will you help your students memorize, understand, and apply?
How can you help your students make connections?
Engage your students by telling stories and asking questions

Focus & Equip (2009.06): How focused are you on close the gap?

11/06/09 08:01

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Ask questions to help those around you
How focused are you on closing the gap?
Schedule your key priorities first
Enhance your organization’s improvement system
Help your students connect 3 things
Provide training in creation-fall-redemption-restoration
How can you help your students develop a Christ-centered worldview?
Student applies creation-fall-redemption-restortion to nature
Meet your students' learning needs regarding creation-fall-redemption-restoration

Focus & Equip (2009.05): How can training help you increase focus on your mission?

08/05/09 09:32

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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

Focus & Equip (2009.04): What will you do to achieve your goals?

03/04/09 07:36

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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

Focus & Equip (2009.03): Target your strengths

06/03/09 08:03

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

Focus & Equip (2009.02): Supervise your staff

06/02/09 08:02

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What helps/hinders you in achieving your goals?
Supervise your staff
Ask a question
Use 8 questions to reflect on a subject area
Ask questions about creation-fall-redemption-restoration
To help your students make connections, what unit assessments do you give?
Give opportunities for student choice
Help students address difficulties and dilemmas
Help your students understand how you teach from a Biblical perspective

Focus & Equip (2009.01): How can a scorecard help you increase focus on your mission?

09/01/09 08:19

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What is coaching?
What could you work on with a coach?
How can a scorecard help you increase focus on your mission?
Pay attention to your goals
Ensure a common understanding of expectations and definitions
What 3 types of assessment will you use?
Students say questions help them make connections
Video: Biblical perspective assessment helps
Have your students do reflective writing
Video: DEAL with student learning needs

Focus & Equip (2008.12): Encourage reflective practice

05/12/08 08:46

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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

Focus & Equip (2008.11): How can measurement help you increase focus on your mission?

06/11/08 14:38

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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

Focus & Equip (2008.10): Want to achieve your goals?

03/10/08 08:17

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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

Focus & Equip (2008.09): What do you need to KeepStartStop doing?

08/09/08 08:07

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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

Focus & Equip (2008.08): Treat Biblical perspective like you really want your students to learn it

11/08/08 07:43

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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

Focus & Equip (2008.07): How can you increase your focus on your mission?

12/06/08 07:24

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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

Focus & Equip (2008.06): Answer 8 questions as you plan strategically

06/06/08 08:27

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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

Focus & Equip (2008.05): How focused are you on your God-given mission?

09/05/08 08:40

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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

Focus & Equip (2008.04): Identify, measure, then take action

08/04/08 07:49

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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?

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

11/03/08 08:17

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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

Focus & Equip (2008.02): “And” learning, not “or” learning

06/02/08 07:56

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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?

Focus & Equip (2008.01): What does it take to achieve your mission?

15/01/08 08:34

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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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