l-r: Rebecca Dodson, Tim Evearitt, Steve Kaufmann, Bob Ashlock, Don Graham

The Education Department hosted Dr. Donovan L. Graham as the featured speaker for the 2012 Educators Conference on March 1. Dr. Graham served at Covenant College for 32 years, as a professor, as a Dean, and finally as Chaplain.

Dr. Graham completed his doctoral studies in counseling and educational psychology at New Mexico State University. He taught at the secondary level and then the college level for nearly 40 years. Throughout his teaching career, he attempted to understand and apply what biblical principles should mean to the way we educate students.

After retiring from Covenant in 2004, Don served as Spiritual and Pastoral Counselor for World Harvest Mission in Ireland, but has since relocated with his wife Wilma to Colorado Springs where Don currently serves as the Director of the Center for Teacher Renewal.

Graham has also kept up with his writing, overseeing a second edition of Teaching Redemptively: Bringing Grace and Truth into your Classroom (2009) and completing his new book, Making a Difference: Christian Educators in Public Schools (2011). His newest project, the Center for Teacher Renewal, is in many ways a culminating work which combines his gifts of teaching, counseling and spiritual renewal for Christian educators.

At the 2012 Educators Conference, Dr. Graham spoke on the topic of "Spiritual Keys to Thriving as an Educator". These messages are available for listening and download on iTunes U, or you may listen to the individual tracks below.

Please check this page beginning in October 2012 for information on the 2013 Educators Conference.