Teaching for Transformation

What is it?

Learning at EC is designed to be both meaningful and purpose-driven. Through the Teaching for Transformation (TfT) framework, students engage in real, meaningful work as they ask big questions and make connections, discovering how Christ is present across every subject and every part of their learning.

This approach empowers teachers and students to see their daily work as part of God’s redemptive story and how they can use their learning to meet real needs in the world.

The TfT Framework

Deep Hope

A deep hope is a statement of purpose and calling. Each EC teacher creates a deep hope that demonstrates a commitment to shaping students beyond academics alone.

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Storyline

Each classroom at EC has a unique storyline. Storylines are brief phrases that invite students to consider how God’s story of creation, fall, redemption and restoration is evident in their daily learning.

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Throughlines

Throughlines are the discipleship habits and practices that shape who our students are becoming while equipping them to impact God’s world around them. They give students, teachers, and parents a shared vision for what it means to live as faithful disciples within God’s story.

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FLEx

Formational Learning Experiences (FLEx) are opportunities for learners to practice living the Kingdom Story by doing real work that meets the real needs of real people.

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Does your student connect his or her faith to learning on a daily basis?

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Throughlines at EC

God Worshiper

Learners extend, both in daily tasks and in deliberate times of praise, their words, actions, talents, and thoughts in awe and celebration of God, who is worthy.

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Idolatry Discerner

Students learn to recognize things that can take the place of God in their lives. By discerning idols in our lives and our culture, we can resist their deception and place our trust in God alone.

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Servant Worker

Learners follow the example of Christ’s selfless love through exercising kindness, empathy, and compassion. They diligently labor to serve others motivated by their love for God.

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Community Builder

Learners build communities of grace and purpose, making space for the belonging of others, responding with a love for God and neighbor. This is the result of God’s love for them.

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Image Bearer

Learners mirror God’s goodness through who they are and what they do, and delight in the image of God intrinsic in all people.

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Steward of Creation

Learners delight in God’s qualities: his external power and divine nature exhibited in what he created. As a result, learners will steward all God has created by pursuing and practicing new ways to tend and care for his creation.

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Justice Seeker

Learners pursue restorative transformation, seeking to bring wholeness where there is brokenness. They will seek justice in a way that reflects God and recognizes that HE will ultimately bring justice.

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Order Discoverer

Learners seek and find God’s fingerprints in the intricate, purposeful design of what he has created, and will seek to bring order as God intended.

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Beauty Creator

Learners engage in beautiful work that enriches the world and reflects God’s heart for diversity, complexity, and creativity.

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“TfT has transformed the way I plan and teach. Rather than adding faith to my lessons, I begin with a Throughline—a way we can know and respond to God as a classroom community—and build my instruction around it.”
– Karyn Baitzel, Teacher

Interested in learning more about the Christ-centered education at EC? See what spiritual life looks like here.