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Dr. Ridder, Head of School
October 2024
Privilege & Partnership
It is a privilege for me to be involved in Christian education. The 2024-2025 school year marks my 29th year of serving in Christian education—my 19th year in an administrative role. Of course, my enjoyment of the blessing of Christian education goes back much further than that. I was blessed to be able to attend Christian schools from Preschool through the completion of my undergraduate degree. Even my doctorate degree was earned at a Christian university. I was blessed to be able to attend the same Christian schools that my parents attended. My grandparents and great grandparents attended Christian schools as well. What a privilege indeed! I am abundantly blessed, as are all of us connected to Isaac Newton Christian Academy.
Because we have the privilege of being daily involved in Christian education, each member of our school community benefits from that blessing. Because of that blessing, we are able to serve one another in this community with humility, passion, and a commitment to excellence.
We value the partnership that our school has with the home and the church of our students. Our school serves a distinct role in that partnership with our defined expertise and appropriate parameters. We have the privilege of partnering with families and over 50 local churches to point students in the same direction…toward Jesus Christ. We all get to work together in that partnership. And our students are blessed for that arrangement, where everything at school, at home, and at church point them towards their savior, Jesus. That is a lot of power!