The elusive teachable moment is not endangered. In this episode we talk about how to orchestrate and leverage teachable moments to catalyze deep and durable learning.

Young learners are motivated by curiosity and wonder. This generates "why" questions that are answered by looking for patterns in the particulars they encounter. Would this were true for adult learning!

Many people feel stuck in their careers. At the root this is because they lack clarity about who they are and what they were made to do. Clarity emerges on the heels of questioning your erroneous assumptions about vocation.

Vocation should not be chosen pragmatically based merely on opportunity. Vocation is literally a calling to use your unique giftedness for the glory of God. Dr. Scott Whitmore, a researcher in retinal diseases, shares his wrestling to discern God's call.

Ideals are commendable but how we implement ideals can corrupt our true identity. Susanna Hindman shares her story of life in a disadvantaged community in West Baltimore, Maryland.

Healthcare is better at treating disease than at creating and maintaining health. It presumptuously treats even foreseeable physical dysfunction or limitation within a human lifespan as a problem it is working to solve.

Dr. Valerie Coffman shares her personal struggles with infertility and loss which threatened her identity as a woman. More importantly, she reflects on the opportunities for spiritual growth through profound disappointment.

Cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Nathan Smith, as a college sophomore experienced the liberation that comes with transformational learning. In this podcast he explains how a focus on understanding and deep learning informs his Christian faith as well as his life as a surgeon.

The essentials of learning are the same for homeschoolers and medical residents. Dr. Joy Smith, pediatrician and internal medicine specialist distill the essentials of learning.

What if students could enter college already immersed in the disciplines and joys of deep learning?

A proper view of business is centered on the biblical concept of stewardship. Join me as we explore this vital idea.

Sam Saldivar is the child of migrant laborers who picked cotton and packed thirteen people into a house with one real bedroom.

Harmonizing personal freedom and the biblical law of love through the discipline of public health.

Public health has extended life spans in the U.S. by 30 years over the past 125 years through things like clean water and childhood vaccines. We'll explore the transformative effects of this little known discipline.

History is a means of answering why questions about human events through an examination of documents and artifacts. These are pieces of evidence that are used to construct a compelling explanatory narrative. We all love a good story and history reconstructs the ones that actually happened (as close as possible)!

History is not advanced Trivial Pursuit! Rather, history is a way of thinking about the past that seeks to construct an objective, verifiable narrative. You may not think you like history, but we all love stories!

Pedagogy is often viewed as a personal choice and untouchable—a kind of third rail. The SITS model aims to transform faculty into clear incisive thinkers who embrace transformed pedagogy in order to optimize deep learning in their students.

Teaching as delivery of information is the expectation of students and the default for faculty. But telling is not teaching. Real teaching engages students’ minds and transforms them.

The 3-legged stool view of teaching and learning has become three intensive summers of faculty development in the Summer Institute in Teaching Science (SITS) at Bob Jones University.

In this episode the three founders (aka three musketeers) of SITS discuss the influences that moved them away from transmission (teaching as telling) and to teaching as cognitive transformation.