WEEKLY ROUND UP 11/17/17

Didn’t have the chance to check in with NCEA Talk each day? We’ve got you covered. Each Friday NCEA Talk will post a roundup of Catholic education news and resources from the week. In case you missed it… Guest Blogger: Kathy Mears Monthly Member Feature School: St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School in Houston, Texas […]

Monthly Member Feature School: St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School in Houston, Texas

St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School is a parish school located in Houston, TX  serving 500 students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade.  St. Vincent’s rich tradition of academic excellence and spiritual development has produced high achieving students for over 70 years, and we are proud to note St. Vincent’s was named a 2016 National Blue Ribbon […]

Athletic and Activities Counsel

The following article was contributed by Andy Tylicki, President at St. James Academy in Lenexa, Kansas. St. James Academy opened in August of 2005 with a single class of 124 freshmen.  Over the past twelve years, we have had significant growth and are now a robust high school with an enrollment of 935 students.  As you […]

Guest Blogger: Sr. Patricia Earl, IHM

Congratulations to Sr. John Mary Fleming, OP and Timothy Uhl for this informative, organized and engaging presentation on The Declaration of Christian Education on the Catholic School Matters podcast. It was a delight to revisit this beautiful document of 12 basic statements, situated within the time and context in which it was written; namely the post-Vatican II time […]

Catholic School Matters Top 5

In last week’s Catholic School Matters newsletter, I shared the article “Who Do You Say You Are: Relationships and Faith in Catholic Schools” from this fall’s Journal of Catholic Education. The authors (Jennifer Maney, Carrie King, and Thomas Kiely) examine the importance of teacher-student relationships within Catholic schools. They found that the quality of those relationships mirror the […]

WEEKLY ROUND UP 11/10/17

Didn’t have the chance to check in with NCEA Talk each day? We’ve got you covered. Each Friday NCEA Talk will post a roundup of Catholic education news and resources from the week. In case you missed it… Guest Blogger: Dr. Lorraine Ozar Guest Blogger: Sr. John Mary Fleming, OP Motion Offense in Basketball November […]

Guest Blogger: Dr. Lorraine Ozar

Guest blog response to the Declaration on Christian Education (1965) podcast by Lorraine Ozar, Ph.D. When the Declaration on Christian Education (Gravissimum Educationes) was published in 1965 at the end of the Second Vatican Council, Catholic schools in the United States were at their peak enrollment.  They functioned almost as a parallel school system, aimed at transmitting the faith and […]

Motion Offense in Basketball

The following article was contributed by Adam P. Zoeller, theology department chair of Saint Xavier High School in Louisville, KY. Analyzing the Proofs for the Existence of God in a freshmen theology course is challenging to say the least.  Argument one by St. Thomas Aquinas for example is often interpreted by my students as a riddle: […]