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Seek First, Teach Second: A Devotional for Teachers
240 pages, Paperback
Published September 2, 2025
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December 30, 2025
Teachers are starving; this is bread.
With vulnerability, creativity, and startling clarity, Danielles Lee and Zee dive deep into the implications of the higher calling this profession answers.
We've all sat through PDs that expounded ad nauseam the finer points of data collection and the benefits of strong classroom management. Those tend to focus on the year at hand. "Seek First, Teach Second" examines the eternity of it all. How do we pray for our students, knowing that we may be the ONLY ones praying for them? How much of our identity as educators is rooted in Christ? Would God be pleased with the community we create in our classrooms? Here's an opportunity to find out.
Organized into five weeks, the devotional is designed for discussion and engagement with daily reflection questions and scripture highlights. Each week is themed and divided into six attributes of teachers, each studded generously with stories that invite us into Lee and Zee's own classrooms — and how happy we are to take a seat! The gifts of each educator shine throughout, from Lee's artistic and thoughtful family traditions and faithful stewardship of her classroom to Zee's profound community building and passionate spoken-word poetry. It's an invigorating read.
As a former teacher, this devotional is exactly what I would have needed to reground myself post-Christmas Break. As a parent, I'll be revisiting it year-round.
With vulnerability, creativity, and startling clarity, Danielles Lee and Zee dive deep into the implications of the higher calling this profession answers.
We've all sat through PDs that expounded ad nauseam the finer points of data collection and the benefits of strong classroom management. Those tend to focus on the year at hand. "Seek First, Teach Second" examines the eternity of it all. How do we pray for our students, knowing that we may be the ONLY ones praying for them? How much of our identity as educators is rooted in Christ? Would God be pleased with the community we create in our classrooms? Here's an opportunity to find out.
Organized into five weeks, the devotional is designed for discussion and engagement with daily reflection questions and scripture highlights. Each week is themed and divided into six attributes of teachers, each studded generously with stories that invite us into Lee and Zee's own classrooms — and how happy we are to take a seat! The gifts of each educator shine throughout, from Lee's artistic and thoughtful family traditions and faithful stewardship of her classroom to Zee's profound community building and passionate spoken-word poetry. It's an invigorating read.
As a former teacher, this devotional is exactly what I would have needed to reground myself post-Christmas Break. As a parent, I'll be revisiting it year-round.
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