Connecting Religion and Teacher Identity: The Unexplored Relationship Between Teachers and Religion in Public Schools

I chose the article "Connecting Religion and Teacher Identity:  The Unexplored Relationship Between Teachers and Religion in Public Schools" by Kimberly R. White.  Published in the Teaching and Teacher Education Journal, I assume she is speaking to educators and those involved in educational policy.  Basically this article discusses how religious orientation may influence teaching  in public schools... How many choices a teacher makes are influenced by their own orientation as religious, unreligious, or anti-religious.  The author discusses the irony of multiculturalism which is defined in relation to one's ethnic or cultural group, gender, social class, religion, language, ability, and sexual orientation yet in relation to education, religion is omitted.  The author then discusses a series of research based questions including, how does the educational research community position the relationship between teachers' own conceptions of religion and the development and enhancement of their professional teaching identities?  Does this topic warrant investigation making it a potential area of contribution in the future? And, how might the study of religion and teacher identity, the interaction of private and public, be conceptualized?  Ultimately, the article was a lot of research based on these questions including what educational literature tells us about the topics of religion and education, what multiculturalism tells us, what government has historically told us, what media tells us?  All that said, I was hoping for an answer... as a Christian and soon to be teacher, how do I maintain that identity and not cross a boundary?  Am I crossing a boundary as long as I don't enforce my beliefs onto my students? Based on my beliefs, what if that boundary is something I perceive as an issue to one's salvation?  For instance, in the article it mentioned how previous Educational Secretary, Rod Paige had warned school officials that they may not, "compel students to participate in prayer or other religious activities.  Nor may teachers, school administrators and other school employees, when acting in their official capacities as representatives of the state, encourage or discourage prayer, or participate in such activities with students."... Does this mean I cant pray during the moment of silence?