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MLC’s Annual Open Learning Conference

  Last week, MLC hosted its annual, free Open Learning webinar series. The first day shared three hours of workshops that support our wellness, both in practicing our faith and caring for our bodies. The second day shared three hours of workshops that focused on structured literacy. If you missed this professional development opportunity, the […]

Curated Resources for Christian Education

MLC prepares men and women to public ministry needs of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) and to proclaim the Word of God faithfully and in accord with the Lutheran Confessions in the Book of Concord. To support our prospective students, current learners, and alumni, the MLC Library has worked closely with our faculty to […]

Accelerated, Flexibly-Paced Pathway to Teaching

In all of our communications, we emphasize that APPLE is an accelerated pathway to teaching that is online, competency-based, and flexibly-paced. Most of the conversations we have about the program ask about two of those concepts — accelerated and flexibly-paced. We thought it might be helpful if we explained both of those terms in greater […]

Call Day – The End Goal of the APPLE Program

This past weekend, the MLC campus celebrated our May graduation. While that celebration is certainly important, it pales in some ways to the Call Service that follows the graduation ceremony. Families, friends, classmates, and recently graduated education and staff ministry students return to the same room where they just celebrated their graduation to attend the […]

Experiential Learning Credit for APPLE

MLC recognizes that its student body, especially returning adult learners, often has professional experiences and credentials that could be considered in their academic studies. Experiential Learning Credit An “experiential learning” experience is a previous learning experience in a classroom, on the job, in previous training, or through personal study that a student wishes to apply […]

PELSB Approval

At MLC, our academic programs are regularly reviewed internally and by the appropriate accrediting bodies. Over the past year, our faculty and staff, especially those in our Licensure Office, have worked diligently to prepare for an onsite Minnesota Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) review of our academic programs that lead to eligibility for […]

Holy Week Devotions

Over the course of this week, Christian schools and churches remember the perfect life, painful death, and promised resurrection of Jesus Christ. Join MLC faculty this week in reflecting on The Foolishness of the Cross. This devotion guides our Holy Week reflections, challenging us to consider “how the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, […]