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Christian Community Development, Christian Community Education, Encouragement, In the Classroom, Mentors, Spiritual Life, Teacher Appreciation, Uncategorized, Urban Ed

Teacher Appreciation Week — Part Three

A current resident, JaVorah Davis, reflects on how a Memphis teacher recognized and encouraged her unique skill sets and pushed her beyond the basic level of understanding...

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April 4, 2017
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Christian Community Education, Encouragement, Memphis, MLK, Spiritual Life, Urban Ed

Honoring Dr. King on the 49th Anniversary of his Assassination

Author: David Montague | MTR President An encouraging post from MTR’s President, David Montague I think it is most appropriate to recognize, particularly as Memphians, April 4th as an important and shaping date in our nation's history. Forty-nine years ago today, Dr. King was shot and...

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January 26, 2017
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Christian Community Development, Christian Community Education, Encouragement, In the Classroom, Memphis, Spiritual Life

Find, See and Love the Marginalized

How did Jesus enter His classroom as a beginning Teacher? Find out how in Luke 2: When Jesus came to bring glory to God and peace to others He began with quiet demonstrations of HUMILITY and LOVE, dignifying and identifying first with the marginalized....

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January 10, 2017
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Let’s Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing

Happy entrée into 2017. I hope you all had a wonderful and restful holiday season. I'm sure you will start the day with mixed emotions...

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November 2, 2016
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A Call to Teach

Christian life is, in part, coming to God humbly in His word to find out what it is that he loves and what it is that he hates. Then we take on his loves and hates as our very own. And when we do, we...

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October 24, 2016
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Sometimes Less is More

David Montague shared this email with the MTR family this week. We hope that you will find encouragement in it....

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September 16, 2016
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Is There a Place for Redemptive Conversations with Students in Public Education?

Teaching and coaching in an underprivileged community can be tough and discouraging. I can remember driving home many nights after a long day of teaching thinking to myself, “There is no way I can go back to school tomorrow."...

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August 26, 2016
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Education: The Voice for the Oppressed

Education is the breath of the civil rights movement. It allows conversations to come alive, conversations that need to happen to provoke change. As an educator...

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August 19, 2016
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I Am a 5th Grader Too.

Olivia Besel is an MTR resident and expected to graduate with the Class of 2017. She is teaching 5th grade at KIPP Memphis Academy Middle. We are thankful that Olivia is at MTR and we hope that this blog will serve as an encouragement to...

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August 13, 2016
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Jesus Has Already Won

An MTR teacher shared this email with his team this week. Hopefully all teachers can find encouragement in it. The first week back at school does not always go as planned: "I know how frustrating today was. I left disappointed, frustrated and discouraged...

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Restored communities living with dignity and in peace.
The vision of MTR is to use our specific work within education, in partnership with other holistic organizations, to help restore communities so that all individuals can become empowered contributors to our city and people of all races and classes can engage with one another in peace.


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Christian love expressed in equal education.
As a response to the gospel mandate to love our neighbors as ourselves, MTR will partner to provide students in Memphis neighborhoods with the same, or better, quality of education as is available to any student in Memphis by recruiting, training and supporting effective teachers within a Christian context.

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