Innovation Cycle – Design Considerations
This resource contains two diagrams. The first is the “innovation cycle,” which shows the process by which a congregation envisions, plans, implements, and evaluates a new program or […]
Innovation Configuration Map: Clarifying Outcomes
This resource guides the education team in creating an innovation configuration map, a method for translating a vision into concrete reality. The process involves selecting a goal derived […]
Identifying Your Priority Goal
This exercise helps a congregation identify its priority learning goal(s), the “North Star” that will guide the design of their learning plan. Participants will be asked to reflect […]
Enculturation and the Design Process
These handouts include a diagram and several texts about the flaws in using secular education/instruction as the model for religious education, arguing instead for a process of “enculturation” […]
Whole Person Learning Resource Sheet
This resource sheet explains how an education team that has identified its priority goal(s) for learning can begin to design learning experiences using the “whole person learning” or […]
What Are the ECE’s Goals and Guiding Principles?
This handout lays out the major goals and principles of the ECE’s RE-IMAGINE Project. The dual goals of the project are to create congregations of learners and self-renewing […]