What’s Happening at Home?

As a school administrator, what is your role in speaking into your students’ homes? That’s actually a much bigger question than what this talk addresses.

Homes matter so much.

Perhaps we’re tempted to think we can take any student and transform them through a great school experience, but that only reaches so far. As we consider our influence at school and capacity to establish a particular culture, it’s important for us to come to grips with the influence of the home. This ought to inspire our gratitude for the good homes and parents from which we benefit as well as prompt us to prayerfully search for ways to care for the troubled homes with which we interact. Ultimately, we offer our work at school to our heavenly Father and trust Him to work through the Spirit to form and establish our students according to his good will.

Gerald Miller cares an awful lot about this issue as you are about to hear in this vigorous appeal to take the home’s influence seriously. He has taught and administrated for many years at Faith Builders Christian School in northwestern Pennsylvania. He is addressing parents and school leaders here as a parent and a school leader. This is an opportunity to consider important strengths and weaknesses in your own example if you are a parent and an opportunity for anyone to gain insight into the circumstances of the families that you serve.

We offer this episode in the hope that God will graciously guide you in responding to any needs that this talk brings to your attention.

Links

• This recording was first published on The Dock as “Evaluating Seven Elements of Your Home’s Influence:” https://thedockforlearning.org/lecture/evaluating-seven-elements-of-your-homes-influence/
• More presentations from CASBI 2018: https://thedockforlearning.org/series/casbi/casbi-2018/
• Artificial Maturity, Tim Elmore (book): https://a.co/d/97CIjO4