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Keep Teaching: Daily Grace for the Classroom
As an educator, you bring your whole heart to school every day. But how can you keep your heart as healthy as possible? Reading Scripture over yourself and your classroom is one simple way to bring miraculous growth and sustainability. You want to be effective, and there is nothing like the equipping power of God's Word to stregnthen you.
Use Keep Teaching as a daily devotional book that centers your thoughts on Jesus any time during the school day. With 365 Bible verses and insightful devotional thoughts, you will find enough grace to take you from the first day of school to the longest days of summer. Keep Teaching is filled with prayer prompts, moments of meditation, and brief spaces for reflection, making it a book you will want to keep as close as your coffee cup.
Make this year the best one yet. Invite the Teacher of teachers into your classroom.
Use Keep Teaching as a daily devotional book that centers your thoughts on Jesus any time during the school day. With 365 Bible verses and insightful devotional thoughts, you will find enough grace to take you from the first day of school to the longest days of summer. Keep Teaching is filled with prayer prompts, moments of meditation, and brief spaces for reflection, making it a book you will want to keep as close as your coffee cup.
Make this year the best one yet. Invite the Teacher of teachers into your classroom.
400 pages, ebook
Published July 30, 2019
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About the author
Nika Maples
8 books168 followersNika Maples, a native Texan, never thought she would become a teacher. By her sophomore year in college everything changed …
In 1994, a lupus-induced stroke left Nika quadriplegic. She could not speak, swallow, or blink. In intensive care, she listened as physicians warned her family that she had as little as 48 hours to live. If she lived at all, they said, she could be expected to remain unresponsive. She had lost all functionality and had no hope of recovery, so doctors suggested an assisted living facility as the only option for Nika’s future. When she could do nothing else, she prayed. Her faith sustained her, and she walked back onto her college campus on her own two feet. The lessons she learned from quadriplegia will always be a part of her heart.
A stark reality became clearer to her by the day: Life is brief and brilliant. Whatever we choose to do with our handful of moments on earth, it is critical that we make those moments significant by serving others. She could think of no better way to serve than to educate and encourage young people.
After she had taught in a public high school only four years, the Texas Education Agency honored Nika by naming her 2007 Texas Secondary Teacher of the Year. Currently, she shares her message of hope and endurance with education, business, and church groups, while continuing to teach language arts and social studies to 5th grade students in Keller, Texas. Audiences respond to her humorous and heartfelt stories with warmth and enthusiasm. Almost everyone walks away with a renewed sense of purpose.
Nika holds a BS in mass communications from Texas Wesleyan University and an MA in English education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her teaching philosophy is simple. Teachers, as academic physicians, must not remove “educational life support” from any student, no matter how seemingly hopeless the situation.
It is never too late to learn and it is never too late to teach.
In 1994, a lupus-induced stroke left Nika quadriplegic. She could not speak, swallow, or blink. In intensive care, she listened as physicians warned her family that she had as little as 48 hours to live. If she lived at all, they said, she could be expected to remain unresponsive. She had lost all functionality and had no hope of recovery, so doctors suggested an assisted living facility as the only option for Nika’s future. When she could do nothing else, she prayed. Her faith sustained her, and she walked back onto her college campus on her own two feet. The lessons she learned from quadriplegia will always be a part of her heart.
A stark reality became clearer to her by the day: Life is brief and brilliant. Whatever we choose to do with our handful of moments on earth, it is critical that we make those moments significant by serving others. She could think of no better way to serve than to educate and encourage young people.
After she had taught in a public high school only four years, the Texas Education Agency honored Nika by naming her 2007 Texas Secondary Teacher of the Year. Currently, she shares her message of hope and endurance with education, business, and church groups, while continuing to teach language arts and social studies to 5th grade students in Keller, Texas. Audiences respond to her humorous and heartfelt stories with warmth and enthusiasm. Almost everyone walks away with a renewed sense of purpose.
Nika holds a BS in mass communications from Texas Wesleyan University and an MA in English education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her teaching philosophy is simple. Teachers, as academic physicians, must not remove “educational life support” from any student, no matter how seemingly hopeless the situation.
It is never too late to learn and it is never too late to teach.
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July 31, 2021
A helpful daily devotional book that helped me meditate and relieve some anxiety before starting my day in the classroom.
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