The following guest post is from NCEA’s Corporate Partner Mutual of America. About Mutual of America Mutual of America specializes in providing retirement products and services to organizations and their employees, as well as to individuals. At Mutual of America, we have been providing retirement plan services since our inception in 1945, when we were […]
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STREAM in Action: Learning Outside the Classroom With Google Apps
This post is contributed by Gene Carboni, Business & Technology Department Chair at Father Judge High School in Philadelphia, PA. Over the past six years, little by little, one school at a time, the seventeen high schools in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia adopted Google Apps for Education. My school, Father Judge High School for Boys, […]
Teacher Appreciation Week means we pause and reflect
This post was contributed by Abbie Greer, Principal at The Academy of Saint Matthias the Apostle. Teacher Appreciation Week is an odd entity. As Catholic educators, our choice to work in a Catholic school seems like it would fit some typical job search and find model, but it’s truly something more than that. As an […]
Magis – Means More Than Just More
This post was contributed by Lauren Urban, Dean of Academics at Seton Keough High School. I went to a Jesuit college and as a student one of the words that always struck me was magis meaning more. It wasn’t until a few years after graduation when I felt that I was being called into education […]
Asking Just the Right Questions and Other High-Impact Reading Comprehension Strategies
This post was contributed by Kathy Barclay, Ed.D. During a reading of Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss, after reading about Yertle sitting atop a nine- turtle stack and one little turtle at the bottom of the stack saying, “How long must we stand here, Your Majesty, please?” the teacher paused to ask, “What do […]
STREAM in Action: Breakout EDU
This post was contributed by Marcie Herbert: Google Certified Trainer and Teacher. Find out more about Marcie and her work with STREAM initiatives at https://sites.google.com/site/marciehebert/home. Gamification has been a trending topic in education. A new way of doing this is Breakout EDU which “teach(es) critical thinking, teamwork, complex problem solving, and can be used in […]
Support HR 4901: Scholarships for Results and Opportunity Reauthorization Act of 2016
This post was contributed by Dale McDonald, PBVM, PhD, NCEA Director of Public Policy. NCEA has joined with many private school advocates in the National Coalition for Parental Choice to urge the House of Representatives to vote for passage of HR 4901, the Scholarships for Results and Opportunity Reauthorization Act (SOAR ACT) of 2016. This […]
Earth Day at Holy Family Catholic School
This post was contributed by Ryan Lombardozzi, NCEA Social Media Coordinator. Pope Francis has advocated the Catholic community through Laudato Si to be good stewards of the environment. In his encyclical he writes, “living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not only an optional […]
STREAM in Action: 3D Printing
This post was contributed by Andrea Kopp, NCEA Educational Resource Manager. The Archdiocese of Baltimore is providing a series of 3D Printing training cohorts to their teachers and principals to assist in the diocesan-wide implementation of 3D printers in their K-12 schools. Technology Coordinator, Joe Oleszczuk, has partnered with Principal Lois Gorman at Our Lady […]
School Renovations Facilitate STREAM Program Implementation
This post was contributed by Kathy O’Reilly, principal at St. Brigid of Kildare School in Dublin, Ohio. What will our students and teachers be doing in five, ten, or twenty years? Just thinking about the magnitude of that question led our staff to visioning sessions that kicked off a series of 21st century planning meetings. […]
