clwoelk

Cheryl Woelk is coordinator of Language for Peace and specializes in language and peace education in multicultural contexts. She holds an MA in Education and a graduate certificate in Peacebuilding from Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia, USA. Cheryl currently lives in Saskatchewan, Canada with her spouse and son.
clwoelk has written 140 posts for Language for Peace Forum

Biblical perspectives on immigration

Missio Dei has put out a booklet by M. Daniel Carroll R. called Immigration and the Bible which explores themes of immigration from scriptures… Continue reading

New book: Exploring Theological English

Exploring Theological English is a new resource for higher level English learners to build skills for reading theological materials… Continue reading

Creating a Peaceful School Conference 2014

Former gang member turned peace educator Victor Rios is the keynote speaker for the Creating a Peaceful School Conference to be held in California, USA on February 1, 2014. Continue reading

Books on Bullying book list put out by Choice Literacy

The Choice Literacy Books on Bullying has a Pinterest page with a great list of children’s books related to bullying with ideas on how to integrate these into elementary school classes. Continue reading

Activators: Strategies from Peace Education

The Activators: Classroom strategies for engaging middle and high school students resource provides some great ideas on engaging adolescent learners in meaningful ways. Continue reading

Language and the Media: Training Manual

Michael Shank has put together a Media Training Manual which includes some basic conflict transformation tools, as well as questions to consider regarding language the media uses when reporting issues of conflict… Continue reading

Upcoming International Journal of Christianity and English Language Teaching

The Christian English Language Educators Association is collaborating with Biola University to publish an international journal for those interested in Christianity and English teaching… Continue reading

Christian Faith and English Language Teaching and Learning: Research on the Interrelationship of Religion and ELT

A recent book highlights a variety of voices from within English language education engaging issues related to connections of faith and language teaching… Continue reading

The language we use is the language we teach

This article highlights the need for self-reflection on the language that educators use in classes and the unintended effects it might have on learners… Continue reading

Dual-language classroom a model for building peace through language

In this article and video from Education Week, native Spanish speakers and native English speakers in San Jose, California, USA learn together… Continue reading

Contributing Author

Cheryl Woelk is coordinator of Language for Peace and specializes in language and peace education in multicultural contexts. She holds an MA in Education and a graduate certificate in Peacebuilding from Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia, USA. Cheryl currently lives in Saskatchewan, Canada with her spouse and son.

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