Every parent, grandparent, pastor, and educator is a teacher, whether or not that title is on a door. The real question is not whether we are teaching. It is whether anyone is actually learning. In this episode, Josh and Jen make the case that a student’s failure to learn is often a teacher’s failure to teach, and that the two are far more connected than our modern education system admits.

Josh and Jen walk through five practices of highly effective teachers: knowing that the purpose of teaching is learning, building a theology of teaching before you build a lesson plan, sharpening communication so your message does its job, rightly handling the Word of God, and driving toward one central big idea instead of scattering a dozen. Along the way they cover the Hebrew connection between teaching and learning in Deuteronomy, why curriculum fads like outcomes-based education and social-emotional learning keep cycling through schools, and how unclear positions on doctrine undermines the authority of Scripture in the living room or classroom.

This is foundational work for anyone stewarding the next generation. Teaching is a lot like gardening. Planting seeds is the easy part. The watering, the weeding, and the tending contributes to the amount of fruit.

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