ACSI Podcasts

Julie Heinsman, Superintendent at Morrison Academy in Taiwan, shares the challenges and successes of her Christian school leadership career. Heinsman has worked at Morrison Academy since 2000. Watch this episode on YouTube! In the Sharpening Kingdom Leaders Podcast, Dr. Larry Taylor highlights school leaders as they share their calling, best practices, models, and qualities to create a dynamic school culture. There are three more ACSI podcasts on this channel. Each 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 and his guest, Alice Middelkoop-Stijsiger, discuss a biblical worldview of vocation, how to help students see how God has gifted them, and what we can learn from the Netherlands' educational system. Middelkoop-Stijsiger is currently the Coordinator of Hoornbeeck Knowledge Center and also teaches at Driestar Applied University as a teacher trainer for second-career vocational education teachers. Watch this episode on YouTube! The Grafted Together Podcast examines how biblical worldview and spiritual formation should integrate into everyday Christian education. ACSI launched four podcasts in January 2024. All four will 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

A graduate of a Christian high school in Miami, Catherine Dorcinvil joins Emily Pigott to reflect on the positive impact of teachers, Student Leadership & Learning opportunities, and why she was motivated to enter the medical field. Watch this episode on YouTube! For more on Sevenstar, which provides biblically-based academic resources and online classes, please visit sevenstar.org/about/ The Student Leadership & Learning Podcast aims to help create enriching experiences beyond the classroom and explore ways to maximize the impact of educators and develop student leaders. Your host is Emily Pigott, ACSI's Student Leadership & Learning Director. ACSI launched four podcasts in January 2024. All four will have a new episode each month, available on YouTube and in audio 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.

Dr. Edward Bunn sits down with Jerry Nelson, ACSI's Chief Ministry Officer, to discuss foundational principles of spiritual formation. Watch this episode on YouTube! 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. Jerry Nelson also hosts one of the four ACSI Podcasts. His show, Grafted Together, is available on ACSI's YouTube channel and in audio-only form on most major podcast platforms. 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.

Continuing a series on global voices in the ACSI family, we hear from a school leader who founded a Christian school in Ukraine. Persevering through uncertain circumstances, Maggie (who asks to go by her first name due to security reasons) has a heart for the Gospel touching every heart, no matter where. Watch this episode on YouTube! In the Sharpening Kingdom Leaders Podcast, Dr. Larry Taylor highlights school leaders as they share their calling, best practices, models, and qualities to create a dynamic school culture. There are three more ACSI podcasts on this channel. Each 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 details the ways women of the Bible advanced the Gospel, and how their calling today is still as significant as ever. Watch this episode on YouTube! The Grafted Together Podcast examines how biblical worldview and spiritual formation should integrate into everyday Christian education. ACSI launched four podcasts in January 2024. Each has a new episode each month, available 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. For more info: https://www.acsi.org/podcasts These are the other three shows: -Sharpening Kingdom Leaders with President & CEO, Dr. Larry Taylor: Dr. Taylor sits down with school leaders to discuss their calling, best practices, models, and qualities to create a dynamic school culture. -The Flourishing Journey with Director of Professional Development, Dr. Edward Bunn: Explore strategies for building a thriving school culture through research and practical application. -Student Leadership & Learning with SL&L Director, Emily Pigott: Create enriching experiences beyond the classroom and explore ways to maximize the impact of educators and develop student leaders.

Emily Pigott discusses the importance of relationship-building in making a difference as an educator. This generation yearns for relationships, but older methods of connecting may not work as well. Emily shares stories and insights on how to make the most of each relationship. Watch this episode on YouTube! The Student Leadership & Learning Podcast aims to help create enriching experiences beyond the classroom and explore ways to maximize the impact of educators and develop student leaders. Your host is Emily Pigott, ACSI's Student Leadership & Learning Director. ACSI launched four podcasts in January 2024. All four will have a new episode each month, available on YouTube and in audio 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. These are the other three shows: -Sharpening Kingdom Leaders with President & CEO, Dr. Larry Taylor: Dr. Taylor sits down with school leaders to discuss their calling, best practices, models, and qualities to create a dynamic school culture. -The Flourishing Journey with Director Professional Development, Dr. Edward Bunn: Explore strategies for building a thriving school culture through research and practical application. -Grafted Together with Chief Ministry Officer, Jerry Nelson: Examine how biblical worldview and spiritual formation should integrate into everyday Christian education.

Dr. Edward Bunn sits down with Billy Hutchinson, Dean of Academics at Hickory Grove Christian School, to discuss practitioner strategies and exemplars of an effective professional development culture. Watch this episode on YouTube! 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. ACSI launched four podcasts in January 2024, available 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. These are the other three shows: -Sharpening Kingdom Leaders, with President & CEO, Dr. Larry Taylor: Dr. Taylor sits down with school leaders to discuss their calling, best practices, models, and qualities to create a dynamic school culture. -Student Leadership & Learning with SL&L Director, Emily Pigott: Create enriching experiences beyond the classroom and explore ways to maximize the impact of educators and develop student leaders. -Grafted Together with Chief Ministry Officer, Jerry Nelson: Examine how biblical worldview and spiritual formation should integrate into everyday Christian education.

Kylie Barker helps advance and provide access to Christ-centered education as a head of school in northern Iraq. Alongside ACSI President & CEO Dr. Larry Taylor, Kylie discusses her school's story and what motivated her to travel across the world for the sake of Kingdom education. Watch this episode on YouTube! In the Sharpening Kingdom Leaders Podcast, Dr. Larry Taylor highlights school leaders as they share their calling, best practices, models, and qualities to create a dynamic school culture. There are three more ACSI podcasts on this channel. Each 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 These are the other three shows: -The Flourishing Journey, with Director of Professional Development, Dr. Edward Bunn: Explore strategies for building a thriving school culture through research and practical application. -Student Leadership & Learning, with SL&L Director, Emily Pigott: Create enriching experiences beyond the classroom and explore ways to maximize the impact of educators and develop student leaders. -Grafted Together, with Chief Ministry Officer, Jerry Nelson: Examine how biblical worldview and spiritual formation should integrate into everyday Christian education.

Chief Ministry Officer Jerry Nelson discusses how to view AI with a biblical worldview and how AI can even increase our knowledge of God and ourselves. Watch this episode on YouTube! The Grafted Together Podcast examines how biblical worldview and spiritual formation should integrate into everyday Christian education. ACSI launched four podcasts in January 2024. All four will have a new episode each month, available 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. For more info: https://www.acsi.org/podcasts These are the other three shows: -Sharpening Kingdom Leaders with President & CEO, Dr. Larry Taylor: Dr. Taylor sits down with school leaders to discuss their calling, best practices, models, and qualities to create a dynamic school culture. -The Flourishing Journey with Director of Professional Development, Dr. Edward Bunn: Explore strategies for building a thriving school culture through research and practical application. -Student Leadership & Learning with SL&L Director, Emily Pigott: Create enriching experiences beyond the classroom and explore ways to maximize the impact of educators and develop student leaders.

Students don’t need us for information, they need us for wisdom. The second episode of the Student Leadership & Learning podcast explores educators' influence and how to cultivate it. Watch this episode on YouTube! The Student Leadership & Learning Podcast aims to help create enriching experiences beyond the classroom and explore ways to maximize the impact of educators and develop student leaders. Your host is Emily Pigott, ACSI's Student Leadership & Learning Director. ACSI launched four podcasts in January 2024. All four will have a new episode each month, available on YouTube and in audio 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. These are the other three shows: -Sharpening Kingdom Leaders with President & CEO, Dr. Larry Taylor: Dr. Taylor sits down with school leaders to discuss their calling, best practices, models, and qualities to create a dynamic school culture. -The Flourishing Journey with Director Professional Development, Dr. Edward Bunn: Explore strategies for building a thriving school culture through research and practical application. -Grafted Together with Chief Ministry Officer, Jerry Nelson: Examine how biblical worldview and spiritual formation should integrate into everyday Christian education.

Stephen Deck, ACSI Senior Director of Accreditation & Credentialing, joins the Flourishing Journey podcast to discuss tools & resources for school-based professional development. Find more info here or by email at SchoolBasedPD@acsi.org. Watch this episode on YouTube! The Flourishing Journey podcast explores strategies for building a thriving school culture through research and practical application. Your host is Dr. Edward Bunn, ACSI's Director of Professional Development. ACSI launched four podcasts in January 2024, available 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. These are the other three shows: -Sharpening Kingdom Leaders with President & CEO, Dr. Larry Taylor. -Student Leadership & Learning with SL&L Director, Emily Pigott. -Grafted Together with Chief Ministry Officer, Jerry Nelson.

Part two of this conversation between Dr. Larry Taylor, ACSI President & CEO, and Dr. Don Davis, the Head of School at Second Baptist School in Houston, TX, focuses on leadership qualities, preparing students for their calling, and practically implementing student development in your school. Watch this episode on YouTube! In the Sharpening Kingdom Leaders Podcast, Dr. Larry Taylor will highlight school leaders as they share their calling, best practices, models, and qualities to create a dynamic school culture. ACSI launched four podcasts in January 2024. Each will have a new episode once a month, available 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 These are the other three shows:

In the first episode of Grafted Together with ACSI Chief Ministry Officer Jerry Nelson, be encouraged to think about AI and Biblical Worldview soberly and optimistically. Watch this episode on YouTube! The Grafted Together podcast examines how biblical worldview and spiritual formation should integrate into everyday Christian education. Grafted Together is one of four ACSI podcasts launching in January 2024. These podcasts will help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview. Each show will have a new episode once a month, available on YouTube and in audio-only form on most major podcast platforms. The other three podcasts are:

In the first episode of the Student Leadership & Learning podcast with Emily Pigott, ACSI's SL&L Director, examine the noble calling of an educator: difference makers, change agents, supporters of those who have promise and those who don’t think they do. Learn strategies for holding steadfast to what God has called us to. Watch this episode on YouTube! The Student Leadership & Learning Podcast aims to help create enriching experiences beyond the classroom and explore ways to maximize the impact of educators and develop student leaders. Student Leadership & Learning is one of four podcasts ACSI is launching in January 2024. These podcasts will help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview. Each show will have a new episode once a month, available on YouTube and in audio-only form on most major podcast platforms. The other three podcasts are:

In the first episode of the Flourishing Journey podcast, learn from ACSI Director of Professional Development, Dr. Edward Bunn, and ACSI Vice President of Flourishing Initiatives, Cindy Dodds, about the Flourishing Construct of Professional Development. Watch this episode on YouTube! The Flourishing Journey podcast explores strategies for building a thriving school culture through research and practical application. The Flourishing Journey is one of four podcasts ACSI is launching in January 2024. These podcasts will help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview. Each show will have a new episode once a month, available on YouTube and in audio-only form on most major podcast platforms. The other three podcasts are:

In the first episode of the Sharpening Kingdom Leaders Podcast, ACSI President & CEO Dr. Larry Taylor talks with Dr. Don Davis, the Head of School at Second Baptist School in Houston, TX. Hear about how to equip parents to be disciple-makers, school philosophy, and the relationship between church and school at Second Baptist. Watch this episode on YouTube! In the Sharpening Kingdom Leaders podcast, Dr. Larry Taylor sits down with school leaders to discuss their calling, best practices, models, and qualities to create a dynamic school culture. The Sharpening Kingdom Leaders podcast is one of four ACSI podcasts launching in January 2024. These podcasts will help sharpen your leadership and explore ways to cultivate a flourishing school community, all through a biblical worldview. Each show will have a new episode once a month, available on YouTube and in audio-only form on most major podcast platforms. The other three podcasts are: