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Episode 98: BYU Education Week administrator Bruce Payne on celebrating a century of spiritual and academic learning
By Sarah Jane Weaver
BYU Education Week administrator Bruce Payne gives a glimpse into the planning, facilitating and learning involved in producing the program every year
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Read coverage of 2022 BYU Education Week
By Mary Richards
The week includes thousands of participants, hundreds of teachers, a variety of classes and a devotional from an Apostle.
Anthony Sweat teaches seeking truth at BYU
Seeking truth and developing unshakable faith
By Mary Richards
Searching latter-day teachings and scriptures will provide evidence to strengthen faith, taught instructors at BYU Education Week.
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When loved ones question gospel truths — how to cope, and how to give an answer
By Mary Richards
Seek to remember God’s eternal plan while recognizing that others are on a journey with their own questions, taught instructors at BYU Education Week.
A family in Japan looks a photographs together.
25-plus tools to make family history simple and fun
By Sydney Walker
A BYU Education Week presentation highlighted tools to help with one’s personal history, family history and genealogical records.
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From ice cream and treats to facts and info tidbits: A concluding look at BYU Education Week
By Scott Taylor
What were the most-purchased ice cream flavors and sweets, final attendance numbers, demographic breakdowns and such?
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What the gospel and positive psychology teach about how to be happy
By Mary Richards
BYU Education Week instructors list the ways to increase happiness.
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7 keys to successful dating for young single adults
By Mary Richards
A multi-day course at BYU Education Week covered “YSA Survival 101: Navigating the Dating World.”
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Youth at Education Week: Going to classes during the summer — and liking it
By Scott Taylor
‘Rising generation’ of 14 to 18 year olds — 900 strong in 2022 — are becoming the program’s next generation of attendees.
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What the Church is doing to help members with disabilities
By Sydney Walker
A BYU Education Week presentation by the Church’s disability specialist highlighted resources for members with disabilities.
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Using science and the gospel to build emotional resilience amid trials
By Mary Richards
Understanding science and the gospel will help build emotional resilience amid challenges such as stress, depression and anxiety, taught instructors at BYU Education Week.
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Elder Gilbert explains why the Church Educational System must have the courage to be different
By Rachel Sterzer Gibson
Elder Clark G. Gilbert, Church commissioner of education, spoke at BYU Education Week about why there are so many BYUs.
Elder Cook gives a devotional during BYU Education Week
Elder Cook at BYU Education Week: Give heed to the words of the Prophets
By Mary Richards
In a campus devotional, Elder Quentin L. Cook explained how prophetic direction provides immunity and protection.
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Focusing on Christ in the Children and Youth program
By Ryan Jensen
The Young Men and Primary general presidencies pleaded with parents and leaders to maintain focus on the Savior.
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Good shoes, flexibility and new friends — lessons from the first day of BYU Education Week
By Mary Richards
The campus-wide event from Aug. 15-19 has attendees from several U.S. states and countries.
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All teaching should center on the Savior, Sunday School general presidency says at BYU Education Week
By Sydney Walker
“We teach about Jesus Christ no matter what we are teaching,” said Sunday School General President Mark L. Pace.
A black and white photo shares a view of a large classroom full of people from the back eight corner during the the first Leadership Week (Education Week) at BYU in 1922
What 100 years have looked like for BYU Education Week
By Mary Richards
Patrons first went to Brigham Young University for Leadership Week in January 1922.
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Latter-day Saint youth and suicide: What to know and how to help
By Rachel Sterzer Gibson
Men dressed in WWI uniforms march during a parade, part of a reconstruction of the WWI battle of Verdun, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018, in Verdun, eastern France. Hundreds of volunteers from 18 countries gathered in the French town Verdun as part of a string of events to mark the centenary of the end of World War I, with re-enactors dressed in period soldiers’ uniforms bringing to life a big military encampment in the town.
How a diverse trio of Latter-day Saint chaplains from World War I remain relevant a century later
By Jason Swensen
People walk to different classes while at BYU Education Week in Provo, Utah, on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021.
Understand, love and include: 6 perspectives on the LGBTQ Latter-day Saint experience
By Sydney Walker
Young Women General President Bonnie H. Cordon and Young Men General President Steven J. Lund speak on the Children and Youth program during BYU Education Week on Aug. 20, 2021, in Provo, Utah.
President Cordon and President Lund emphasize following the Savior’s example in teaching youth how to lead
By Sydney Walker
Isaac Beck and Lucas Beck sit on the ground looking at their phones as others at BYU Education Week walk to classes on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021.
What 3 mental health experts taught at BYU Education Week about anxiety, perfectionism, religious OCD and depression
By Sydney Walker and Valerie Walton
People walk to different classes while at BYU Education Week in Provo on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021.
BYU Education Week: How to find purpose and focus as a covenant woman
By Megan McKellar
Sister Rebecca L. Craven, second counselor in the Young Women general presidency, testifies of the importance of gospel learning as part of the Children and Youth program, during BYU Education Week in the Marriott Center on Aug. 19, 2021.
Children and Youth program is not about goal setting — it’s about exercising faith in the Savior, Young Women and Young Men leaders say
By Sydney Walker
Faculty member Carrie M. Wrigley speaks on “Finding Joy, No Matter What the Circumstances” inside the Pardoe Theatre during BYU Education Week in Provo on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021.
BYU Education Week: 5 ways to activate your inborn capacity to experience joy
By Sydney Walker and Christine Rappleye
Brother Ahmad S. Corbitt, first counselor in the Young Men general presidency, listens as a young woman named Delaney shares her experience with the leadership lessons on the Children and Youth website, during BYU Education Week on Aug. 18, 2021, in the Marriott Center in Provo, Utah.
How the Children and Youth program supports the rising generation in accomplishing the work of salvation and exaltation
By Sydney Walker
On Monday, Aug, 16, 2021, stacks of the BYU Education Week class catalog sit ready for the kickoff of the annual event on the Provo, Utah, campus.
BYU Education Week: How God’s love and the gospel of Jesus Christ can help those struggling with addiction
By Valerie Walton
S. Michael Wilcox presents during BYU Education Week on BYU campus in Provo, Utah, on Aug. 16, 2021.
BYU Education Week: ‘What seek ye?’ Answering the questions of Jesus
By Christine Rappleye
Young Men General President Steven J. Lund and Young Women General President Bonnie H. Cordon offer a presentation on the Children and Youth program during BYU Education Week on Aug. 17, 2021, in Provo, Utah.
Understanding and implementing the Children and Youth program: What President Nelson has said about today’s youth
By Sydney Walker
Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, delivers the keynote address at BYU Education Week in the Marriott Center on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021.
Elder Uchtdorf shares 5 messages all of God’s children need to hear
By Rachel Sterzer Gibson