“It is nothing but a pious wish and a grossly unwarranted hope that students trained to be passive and non-creative in school will suddenly, upon graduation, actively contribute to the formation of Christian culture.”
Nicholas Wolterstorff, Educating for Life: Reflections on Christian Teaching and Learning

While a well crafted invitation propels the learners into the learning activities, the echo of Wolterstorff’s words directs teachers in how they are to further engage and nurture the learners within the lesson: actively engage, actively nurture.

Designing a nurturing lesson activates learners to:

• joyfully collaborate and graciously communicate with each other
• grapple curiously with big ideas 
• courageously engage with God’s world
• discover and explore physically, emotionally, cognitively

Nurturing students requires teachers to design learning experiences with an intentional awareness that the micro habits practiced in a lesson have macro effects on the formation of the learners within the classroom. Therefore, teachers design learning experiences as opportunities for learners to practice a way of being that forms self and shapes the world within the vision of the Kingdom.