TFT Bulletin #10 | February 11, 2026

Most of my days include an early-morning walk with my dog, Bear. Typically, we walk a path that runs atop a dike and offers a view of the Salish Sea. As I walk east, the vista over the water opens to expose the volcanic Cascade mountains and the wakening sky. Unintentionally, reciting this verse from one of my favorite hymns is now part of the routine:

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
All thy works shall praise thy name, in earth, and sky, and sea;
Holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity.

While this daily liturgy started spontaneously, it now has a level of intentionality that shifts my focus during my daily dog walk.

Truthfully, most of the time, simply being in this setting is enough to create moments of awe and worship. But reciting this verse from my childhood has somehow amplified this sacred experience.

Creation isn’t just something I passively enjoy; it is actively shaping me. And for this reason, I am grateful for my dog, Bear, who gets me outside each morning to move and to worship.

Workshop:

TfT and Social and Emotional Learning

Social and Emotional Learning is more than a set of strategies—it’s about formation. In this online workshop (March 26 @ 3:00 PM CST), we’ll explore how SEL for learners is shaped by beliefs, behaviors, and formation, and how Teaching for Transformation connects to and cultivates each of these in powerful ways.

Together, we’ll consider how TfT meets SEL in—

‍Registration and details can be found on our website.

Ongoing Reflection: South Christian High School

Stemming from her participation in last summer’s TfT Masterclass on Reflection, South Christian High’s Principal, Krista Wright, initiated a new way to support her staff’s professional growth around this TfT essential practice.

Monthly, Krista publishes the Reflection Connection for her staff; each edition contains resources for effective reflection that connect the learning to God’s story and examples of reflection at work within the learning at South Christian.

To inspire your own Reflection practices, we have made a few editions of Reflection Connection available here.

Storyboards: TfT at ANIJA

Teachers at ANIJA are a beautiful example of joy-filled collaboration as they work through their first year of TfT implementation. They have embraced TfT practices, creating Storylines, Deep Hopes, and vibrant classroom storyboards that bring the learning journey to life.

These storyboards beautifully reflect how students and teachers are Seeing God’s Story and Living God’s Story. Instructional coaching has played a significant role in this process, with teachers and coaches partnering closely to imagine, strengthen, and grow each storyboard with shared purpose and hope.

FLEx Cards: Celebrating Delaware County Christian School

At Delaware County Christian Schools, teachers are designing learning experiences that embody a phrase often used to describe our formational journey: “deeper in and further out.”

In Liz Coat’s 10th–12th grade Ceramics FLEx, students are invited, nurtured, and empowered to practice Creation Stewarding and God Worshipping (deeper in) as they craft pieces that become expressions of worship and witness to more than 60 workers at a local nursing home (further out).

Likewise, in Leslie Meeder’s elementary Spanish FLEx, students engage in intentional formational work as they actively live out her classroom’s Deep Hope—to see God’s heart for all people and to grow in God’s love for all people.

Opening Circles with the Throughlines

We now turn to idolatry discerning in our series on Opening Circles and Throughlines. Idolatry discerning can be challenging to understand because it is abstract and difficult to observe, so today’s Bulletin has ideas for opening circle greetings and initiatives that focus on the heart and love. Through focusing on idolatry discerning in this way, we hope the conversation leads to the deeper currents of idolatry discerning: love and the priorities of our hearts. 

Idolatry Discerning: Learners recognize stories that invite them to seek Truth and participate with the Truth by aligning learning with the knowledge and person of God.