My Grandfather would say, "If you can’t see God in those around you, you can hear Him in your heart. Listen” I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him, and show him my salvation. Psalm 91:14-16 Why such an eclectic selection of pages? These are my "Why such an eclectic selection of pages?" explanations. This space is my opportunity to tell you a bit about my life. I am 78 years old, and as I live my next five, ten, or fifteen years, this is the website where I will write for my family, friends, and community during these final years. My being was an accident. My paternal grandparents and their older friends raised me. Raised by grandparents was an incredible life: quiet conversations and readings opened with wisdom and caring. Wandering in the deciduous forests of southern Indiana and swimming in the large limestone quarry pits that housed the great buildings of New York and Washington D.C., I grew up with generations of stone cutters and carvers who migrated to the States from southern Germany and northern Italy between our Civil War and WWII. Older people who looked at life in the past, present, and future dimensions. This is the framework of learning. In our homes, we spoke German, Italian, Hebrew, or Latin. In a six-room school with eight grades, we learned English slowly. Jews and Catholics and stone. When I was 14, both of my grandparents passed within six months of each other; though I was cared for and had two part-time, after-school jobs, a first-year counselor at my high school had declared me a ward of the state. An Episcopal priest found me a summer job in western Alaska as a carpenter's laborer, and having my lodging and meals paid for and money in my pocket, I applied for a passport at the end of summer and left Anchorage for Europe to look for family members whom I hoped to find in Germany. I'm a third-generation US-born citizen, and my family came to America from the 1860s to just before WWII. Three of my German family did not survive the death camps, but I found one of my uncle's sisters, Charna, in Israel with her daughter, Arelia. Charna survived by living deep in the Youglasavian forest during the war; I lived at kibbutz Ein Gev on the east side of Lake Tiberius (Sea of Galilee) for about two years before being drafted into the US Army in late 1968. In the Army, I served as a medical sergeant in a small airborne unit (5th Special Forces), including Vietnam and other deployments in the early 1970s. When I was discharged from the Army, I had forgotten how to be a civilian, so I lived 30 miles up Rock Creek east of Missoula and learned how to tie flies and fly fish. About once a month, I would drive to Missoula for supplies and laundry and buy used books, mostly classics on philosophy and poetry. When I began university, it was with a GED. When I finished my first years on campus, I had two BAs with honors in anthropology and English literature. Years later, I would graduate with a master's and a doctorate in education. My military persona is gone, and I still don't know how to be a civilian. But I still read used books, tie flies. I am blessed with two amazing daughters, grand and great-grandchildren, and an incredible, loving, caring, brilliant, hard-working, educated wife, who also retired from teaching as a special educator at the master's level. I am, essentially, an English teacher, a father, a husband, a good friend to a few people, and a welcoming man to those I met and those I know as neighbors. Life is good. (More to be written...) Let’s Work Together Get in touch so we can start working together. First Name Last Name Email Message Send Thanks for submitting!

Welcome You, God, are my God. Earnestly, I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, In a dry and parched land where there is no water. (Psalm 63,1) Welcome to the About Montana LLC website, a nonprofit rural education website. We designed sections for moms, dads, and grandparents and sections for local government and community groups. The section on action research is intended for anyone of any age who is exploring a topic of interest. Every future is different. Every future that is unexplored and unprepared can be disruptive and painful. In the approaching mid-century, the rural communities of Western Montana have the opportunity to explore and understand various living options that previous generations did not need to consider. If we set about to understand our local communities, the influence of climate and global economies, and our culture, which connects our generations of family and community, then we may nurture and sustain the lifestyles we depend upon. Communicate Collaborate Create Mission & Ethic Mission and Ethics About Montana, LLC resides on the traditional lands of many Indigenous peoples, including the Salish, Kootenai, and Kalispell. Indigenous communities continue to rely on traditional understanding and relationship with the land today. About Montana, LLC's mission and ethic is to improve education and scholarship for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples through rural education that respects cultural sovereignty, empowers scholars, and creates learning environments for individuals and groups to live, work, and learn together.

Cross-Discipline Engagement I call out to the Lord, and He answers me. I lie down and sleep. I wake again as the Lord sustains me. I will not fear the many Who assail me t hroughout the day. From the Lord comes our deliverance. May your blessing be on our people. Psalm 3:4-6,8 Home Cross-discipline engagement is an ongoing collaboration between different areas of study that can enhance problem-solving and innovation. It encourages sharing insights and methods to create a shared understanding of complex problems and ideas. Deana D. Pennington. (2008). Cross-disciplinary collaboration and learning. Resilience Alliance. The process of co-creating interdisciplinary research ideas is fundamentally a learning problem; participants from different disciplines must learn enough about each other’s research interests to construct an integrated conceptual framework from which joint problems of interest can be created. Team interactions that generate interdisciplinary ideas more effectively can be enabled by a better understanding of the process of cross-disciplinary, collaborative learning. This article postulates several models of collaborative learning in these settings and discusses the implications for orchestrating team activities to achieve better outcomes. Figure 1 Cross-disciplinary collaboration and learning

Home Hello, I'm Charles Bickenheuser, OFS, EdD, the editor of this site and the writer of the Montana Almanac. Sgt. Bickenheuser My wife Diane 2011 Senior Honors High School Class Daughter Alisa, Diane, and family Daughter Jennifer (PhD), and children One of my graduate students Daughter Jennifer (PhD), and Diane The southern Mission Mountains 30 miles from our home Dr. B. outside of his study An old Special Forces Sergeant My Story Contact info@mysite.com 123-456-7890

I am awed when I consider Your heavens, the moons and stars, the work of Your thought and touch. You are mindful of men and women and children. A universe forever in Your care. You made each a little lower than the angels and crowned each with glory. You made us to care for the works of your hands. Each flock and herd, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the seas. All that swim or walk in the seas and the lands You share with us and with all creation. How majestic are You in all the earths and heavens! Psalm 8: 3-9 Valleys

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O Lord, you have been our refuge throughout every generation. Before the mountains were born, You were God. Before you gave birth to the earth And to the world, You are God f rom God, from everlasting to everlasting. You turn mortals back into dust and say, "Return, descendants of Adam." Indeed, in your sight, a thousand years are like a single day, like yesterday—already past—like an hour in the night. Psalms 90: 1-5 Mountains

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