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On this channel are ACSI’s four podcasts:
Sharpening Kingdom Leaders, with President & CEO Dr. Larry Taylor.
Grafted Together, with Chief Ministry Officer Jerry Nelson.
Student Leadership & Learning, with SLL Director Emily Pigott.
The Flourishing Journey, with Director of Leadership Programs Dr. Edward Bunn.
ACSI’s podcasts aim to equip Christian school educators and strengthen you in your calling to impact the next generation for Christ. On a weekly basis, you can hear interviews, stories, research, and more. These podcasts will help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview framework.
Watch these episodes on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@associationofchristianscho4983/featured
Sharpening Kingdom Leaders, with President & CEO Dr. Larry Taylor.
Grafted Together, with Chief Ministry Officer Jerry Nelson.
Student Leadership & Learning, with SLL Director Emily Pigott.
The Flourishing Journey, with Director of Leadership Programs Dr. Edward Bunn.
ACSI’s podcasts aim to equip Christian school educators and strengthen you in your calling to impact the next generation for Christ. On a weekly basis, you can hear interviews, stories, research, and more. These podcasts will help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview framework.
Watch these episodes on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@associationofchristianscho4983/featured
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Rachael Jones sits down with Dr. Edward Bunn to discuss strategies for receiving and implementing healthy feedback as leaders.
The Flourishing Journey podcast explores strategies for building a thriving school culture through research and practical application. The show is hosted by Dr. Edward Bunn, ACSI's Director of Professional Development.
The ACSI podcasts will help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview framework. Find more info here: acsi.org/podcasts
This episode features Dr. Chad McNatt, Superintendent at Seattle Christian School (WA), on the topic of apologetics and students asking tough questions. We also hear from Heath Nivens, Head of School at McKinney Christian Academy (TX) at the Catalyst Conference, and return to Asheville Christian Academy (NC) to hear about their recovery from Hurricane Helene in 2024.
Learn more about ACA and other stories at acsi.org/stories
The Stronger Together Podcast highlights member schools, educators, and important happenings in a 15-minute news magazine style format.
Jerry Nelson and Dr. Jeff Lawrence talk through building spiritual formation in schools from the top down, including defining a biblical worldview and practical steps leaders can take for spiritual formation in Christian schools.
Jeff Lawrence is the Director of Spiritual Development at Foundation Academy (FL). He is a writer, teacher, and cultural apologist passionate about helping people think deeply and live faithfully in a world that often rejects absolute truth.
The Grafted Together Podcast examines how biblical worldview and spiritual formation should integrate into everyday Christian education.
All four shows of the ACSI Podcasts have a new episode each month, available here on YouTube and in audio-only form on most major podcast platforms. These podcasts will help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview framework. Find more info here: https://www.acsi.org/podcasts
This episode completes a three-part series on equipping students to make a courageous influence, with this episode focused on actionable steps to call students up to meet their potential.
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The Student Leadership & Learning Podcast aims to help create enriching experiences beyond the classroom, explore ways to maximize educators' impact, and develop student leaders. Your host is Emily Pigott, ACSI's Student Leadership & Learning Director.
The ACSI Podcasts help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview framework. Find more info on all four shows here: https://www.acsi.org/podcasts.
Rachael Jones sits down with Dr. Edward Bunn to discuss ways to ensure that we as leaders intentionally focus on our own spiritual formation.
The Flourishing Journey podcast explores strategies for building a thriving school culture through research and practical application. The show is hosted by Dr. Edward Bunn, ACSI's Director of Professional Development.
The ACSI podcasts will help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview framework. Find more info here: https://www.acsi.org/podcasts
Every school is being discipled by culture. Often, it happens subconsciously. To discuss how to engage students where Christ & culture meet, Dan Stuart joins Jerry Nelson and shares about his role as the Director of the Christian Leadership Program and Institute for Christ & Culture at The King's Academy (FL).
Dan Stuart has a diverse teaching history from the youth group to the college classroom. During that time, his desires became clear: he wants to see students challenged through difficult questions and loved with the love of Christ. His education is in biblical studies and apologetics.
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The Grafted Together Podcast examines how biblical worldview and spiritual formation should integrate into everyday Christian education.
All four shows of the ACSI Podcasts have a new episode each month, available here on YouTube and in audio-only form on most major podcast platforms. These podcasts will help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview framework. Find more info here: https://www.acsi.org/podcasts
The recent Student Leadership Conference in Hungary was a major success. Hear updates on that event, from outgoing Senior Director of the International Division, Tim Shuman, and leadership advice from a head of school.
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The Stronger Together Podcast highlights member schools, educators, and important happenings in a 15-minute news magazine style format.
Jerry Nelson and Mark Senseman, Director of Business Development with Servant Solutions, discuss stewardship over finances, a biblical view of retirement, and other important topics that affect educators' lives in and out of the classroom.
Mark serves as Director of Business Development at Servant Solutions. He develops, communicates, executes, and sustains corporate strategic initiatives. He is a 1988 graduate of Anderson University with a B.S. in Business Management.
Servant Solution website https://servantsolutions.squarespace.com/employees-toolbox
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The Grafted Together Podcast examines how biblical worldview and spiritual formation should integrate into everyday Christian education.
All four shows of the ACSI Podcasts have a new episode each month, available here on YouTube and in audio-only form on most major podcast platforms. These podcasts will help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview framework. Find more info here: https://www.acsi.org/podcasts
How do we know if we're producing faithful followers of Jesus? Paris Shewey, campus pastor at King's Way Christian Schools (WA), joins the podcast to share his own story of salvation and a simple survey he uses to evaluate spiritual formation in his students.
To see the faith survey, visit here.
Paris Shewey has also served with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He met Jesus in 2009 while playing baseball at Washington State University. Since then, he has carried that same work ethic, drive, and discipline into his walk with Christ and his mission to serve the next generation.
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The Grafted Together Podcast examines how biblical worldview and spiritual formation should integrate into everyday Christian education.
All four shows of the ACSI Podcasts have a new episode each month, available here on YouTube and in audio-only form on most major podcast platforms. These podcasts will help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview framework. Find more info here: https://www.acsi.org/podcasts
Steve Dang joins the podcast to discuss spiritual formation, how to share the gospel based on varying school contexts.
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An example of how to tell the story of Spiritual Formation at your school here.
Spiritual Formation overview at VCS - see more here.
Leveraging Social Media as a Storytelling tool: @vcs_faith
Spiritual Formation links: https://qrco.de/beE6mM
Steve serves as the Chief Ministry Officer and Senior Vice President at Valley Christian Schools in San Jose, California, where he oversees spiritual formation, community engagement, advancement, and alumni relations for one of the largest K–12 Christian schools in the nation. A graduate of Valley Christian himself, Steve is passionate about helping the next generation navigate faith in a complex, post-Christian world.
Educators can help students understand their identity in Christ and foster genuine relationships in a digitally connected but lonely world. Learn more about equipping students to make a courageous influence, which continues a three-part series that began last episode.
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Do you read the quarterly Student Leadership & Learning newsletters? Subscribe at www.acsi.org/subscribe
The Student Leadership & Learning Podcast aims to help create enriching experiences beyond the classroom, explore ways to maximize educators' impact, and develop student leaders. Your host is Emily Pigott, ACSI's Student Leadership & Learning Director.
The ACSI Podcasts help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview framework. Find more info on all four shows here: https://www.acsi.org/podcasts.
Rachael Jones, Assistant Director of Professional Development sits down with Dr. Edward Bunn, Director of Professional Development, to discuss Leadership Development and the newly redesigned Leadership University.
The Flourishing Journey podcast explores strategies for building a thriving school culture through research and practical application. The show is hosted by Dr. Edward Bunn, ACSI's Director of Professional Development.
The ACSI podcasts will help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview framework. Find more info here: https://www.acsi.org/podcasts
Hear about the 2025 Public Policy & Advocacy Summit that just wrapped up in D.C., get to know ACSI's new Board Chair, Elisa Carlson, and enjoy a spotlight on an ACSI school seeing a revival in its student body.
For more on ACSI accreditation, visit acsi.org/accreditation.
Billy Sparacio brings nearly 30 years of experience in high school athletics, and he uses sports as a platform to mold young men and women for life beyond the game.
Learn more about Spiritual Formation Network meetings: https://www.acsi.org/professional-development/connect-with-networking-groups
The Grafted Together Podcast examines how biblical worldview and spiritual formation should integrate into everyday Christian education.
All four shows of the ACSI Podcasts have a new episode each month, available here on YouTube and in audio-only form on most major podcast platforms. These podcasts will help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview framework. Find more info here: https://www.acsi.org/podcasts
Even if students know they're meant to stand for truth, are they equipped to do so? Emily Pigott shares ways to equip students to actually follow through on their mission to impact their community with courageous influence.
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Do you read the quarterly Student Leadership & Learning newsletters? Subscribe at www.acsi.org/subscribe
The Student Leadership & Learning Podcast aims to help create enriching experiences beyond the classroom, explore ways to maximize educators' impact, and develop student leaders. Your host is Emily Pigott, ACSI's Student Leadership & Learning Director.
The ACSI Podcasts help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview framework. Find more info on all four shows here: https://www.acsi.org/podcasts.
Stuart Salazar, ACSI Divisional Director for Latin America, provides an update.
Beth Afanador, a longtime international school educator, gives her reasons why teaching overseas is impactful to both students and the teacher themself.
And finally, we highlight the ACSI Early Education workshops with Dr. Tyler Groves.
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The Stronger Together Podcast highlights member schools, educators, and important happenings in a 15-minute news magazine-style format.
Dr. Steve Mason, Student Success Services Teacher at Southside Christian School in South Carolina, joins the Grafted Together Podcast to discuss Artificial Intelligence, biblical worldview integration, and human intelligence.
Read a chapter of Steve Mason's forthcoming book here, on Biblical Integration of Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence for Christian Educators.
Access the PD slides that Steve Mason uses here, including a list of books, free AI sites for teachers, and current research.
The Grafted Together Podcast examines how biblical worldview and spiritual formation should integrate into everyday Christian education.
All four shows of the ACSI Podcasts have a new episode each month, available here on YouTube and in audio-only form on most major podcast platforms. These podcasts will help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview framework. Find more info here: https://www.acsi.org/podcasts
Jerry Nelson led this devotional at The King's Academy (FL), an ACSI Exemplary Accredited School, on August 7, 2025. He challenged TKA's faculty to emulate Jesus the teacher, using John chapter 20.
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The Grafted Together Podcast examines how biblical worldview and spiritual formation should integrate into everyday Christian education.
Find more info on the rest of the ACSI Podcasts: https://www.acsi.org/podcasts
Josh Leonard rejoins the podcast to discuss targets for students to know, understand, and believe upon graduation. They are integrated with academic and spiritual goals using a biblical worldview, emphasizing the importance of clear outcomes for effective education. The video highlights NRCA's approach with four umbrellas: spiritual formation, worldview orientation, academic thinking, and skills development.
Learn more about Spiritual Formation Network meetings: https://www.acsi.org/professional-development/connect-with-networking-groups
Josh Leonard has served for five years at North Raleigh Christian Academy and is currently leading in the role of Dean of Spiritual Formation and Discipleship. Josh is intentional in developing resources for parents, churches, and Christian schools; including hosting the Rooted Rhythms Podcast, which seeks to engage in conversations surrounding the intentional pursuit of Jesus through the rhythms of our lives.
The Grafted Together Podcast examines how biblical worldview and spiritual formation should integrate into everyday Christian education.
All four shows of the ACSI Podcasts have a new episode each month, available here on YouTube and in audio-only form on most major podcast platforms. These podcasts will help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview framework. Find more info here: https://www.acsi.org/podcasts
Students are returning to school shaped by culture, for better or for worse. Hear actionable strategies on how to capitalize on the beginning of the school year.
Do you read the quarterly Student Leadership & Learning newsletters? Subscribe at www.acsi.org/subscribe
Watch this episode on YouTube!
The Student Leadership & Learning Podcast aims to help create enriching experiences beyond the classroom, explore ways to maximize educators' impact, and develop student leaders. Your host is Emily Pigott, ACSI's Student Leadership & Learning Director.
The ACSI Podcasts help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview framework. Find more info on all four shows here: https://www.acsi.org/podcasts.
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