Paulo Jobim returns to explore what neuroscience reveals about transformational education and why it affirms what Christian educators have always believed — from the way teachers' and students' brains synchronize during genuine connection, to the role of emotional intelligence and novelty in learning. This conversation will give teachers both a richer vocabulary for what they already practice and fresh encouragement that the work of Christian education is written into the way God made us. If you want to see your classroom through the lens of both Scripture and science, this is the episode for you.

• Listen to Paulo's first episode, Episode 70: Neuroscience and Belief
• "Christ is living in me, and I live my life, but I can see reality through the eyes of Christ."
• "We talk about Christ, but we live like Christ as well, and in the classroom, this is very important because this identification that the students have in teachers leads to credibility and intellectual humility."
• "Emotional connection and knowing each other [...] neuroscience points out that these are very important in education."
• "There is a kind of synchronization between school teachers' brains when they are teaching or when they are interacting with students, and the students' brains."
• "Science and neuroscience especially are showing the effects on the brain, not reducing everything to brain activity, but showing what happens in the brains of people that are being transformed."
• "God created our brain and the way we can be transformed."
• "Emotional intelligence [...] is something that should be more connected to the teaching methodologies because it's something that is good for kids."
• "Introducing novelty in the classroom is a great tool to engage students, not only because it activates their brains and their attention will be focused [...] it triggers a reconsolidation process."

What's changing our lives:

• Keane: Family vacation
• Heather: Finding a new route to the post office
• Paulo: Learning about neuroscience and Biblical counseling, as well as learning Spanish

Weekly Spotlight: Christian English School of Torino

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In this important conversation, David Durance shares what it means to reach the nations through education. He shares why this moment in history calls for fresh obedience, renewed imagination, and a deeper awareness of how God is already at work around the world. As more people than ever remain unreached, this episode explores why education is not secondary to mission, but one of the most powerful ways the gospel is being lived out and heard today. If you want to better understand the heart behind TeachBeyond's calling, this episode is a great place to begin.

• "As we see different cultures and different people come together, yes, there's so much that's unique, but the similarities are actually shocking. It's amazing to see how God is bringing us together around this new vision. It's really exciting to be in this moment, seeing that around the world."
• "To see what God's doing around the world and to be a reteller of that story is critical [...] The story is better than I could have imagined."
• "Today we have more people that have not heard the gospel than at any other point in history."
• "How will this next generation most effectively hear the gospel? If more people today have not heard the gospel than any other point in history, we have to take a new approach. We have to think about this and ask the Lord, 'Where are you moving?'"
• "We see the simple obedience of people who are willing to be the goers and be the hands and feet of Jesus, recognizing that's actually how the gospel is going to be effectively heard fundamentally by people living it out and people seeing the gospel lived out in their context."
• "God's actually opening the doors in these places where it's hard to go."
• "Our heart for relevancy is one that led us to education."
• "We're seeing how God is specifically in this moment using education as a way in which the gospel can be heard."
• "It's this teaching-learning process that invites all to respond to Christ's redemptive work in every aspect of life [...] It's actually an invitation to an individual and community into a lifelong journey to becoming all that God intends."
• "The Great Commission is the whole church bringing the whole gospel to the whole world."
• "God is using, in this moment, education to spur on a future generation that cares about the Great Commission."
• "If we want a future generation of followers of Jesus that care deeply about the Great Commission like we do today, then Christian education, transformational education needs to be at the heart of what the church is thinking about."
• "We desire to join the work that God is already doing."
• Hear the story of TeachBeyond Argentina from Marisol in Episode 107
• "It is about this movement from all corners of the earth, seeking to reach their nation, so that the nations can be reached through education."

What's changing our lives:

• Keane: New people joining the team and using ice breakers
• Heather: Worship music to reframe in the midst of stressful moments (Jesus at the Center | Center)
• David: Slow-release melatonin and preparing to speak seamlessly using using his Fold phone

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As Brian Delamont returns for the monthly Spiritual Formation episode, Heather introduces the colloquial term "main character energy" as a cultural myth to unpack. Brian, Heather, and Keane walk through Scripture from Jonah to Jesus to Peter, exploring the importance of keeping a Kingdom perspective.

• Jonah 4:9-11
• "He gives us agency, and yet He also offers us a much better story."
• Matthew 11:28-30
• "Being the protagonist, being the main character, is exhausting because you have to fight the fight [...] and yet, God is saying, 'I have a path for you that is lighter and easier than you could possibly imagine.'"
• Matthew 6:25-34
• "It's so much work trying to be king of the universe when there already is one who's inviting me to actually just follow and come and rest and be."
• "The story that is so all-consuming for me is all consuming for me in that moment, but that's also not the whole story. God continues to write all of history. He has a plan; He has a purpose."
• "We are temporal beings; we are here for a moment [...] This healthy awareness of my humanity, my fragility, is very much an antidote to our tendency to be the main character."
• John 3:16
• 2 Peter 3:9
• Luke 12:32
• "When we pray 'Your Kingdom come, Your will be done,' that is a laying down of our main character-ness and an identification with the greater Kingdom that Jesus is bringing and will bring."
• Acts 10
• "When we collaborate with Him, that's when we have this opportunity to see the body of Christ thrive and to see the fruits of the Spirit really become abundant."
• "We will always pursue what we consider most important."
• Matthew 6:21
• "If we really see people, if we really value people, then we will cross whatever boundaries and borders and resource deficiencies that there may be in order to do what God is calling us to do, to see the treasure that He sees."

March Reflection: What do I really value? What really matters here? What am I treasuring, and is that what God treasures in the way that He treasures it?

What's changing our lives:

• Keane: Watching through a TV series
• Heather: Getting a thumb brace
• Brian: Rooibos tea

Weekly Spotlight: Each One Matters Campaign andFaith Academy

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