This post was contributed by Annette Jones, NCEA Assistant Director of Leadership Development. As a principal, developing students’ leadership skills was one of my passions! At the beginning of the year, I would meet with the eighth grade students to discuss the importance of being “at the top” and their influence as role models for […]
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Saint Margaret Mary Catholic School Monarch Butterfly Rescue Grant Program May Update
This post was contributed by Kate Rezac, NCEA Monarch Grant Program Teacher Leader. Our month has been filled with milkweed, muscles, and mulch as we prepare for the monarchs. Earth Day inspired us to spend time outside planting milkweed seeds and weeding the garden. We even created art inspired by our Monarch Meadow and took […]
Rosary Cathedral Catholic School Monarch Butterfly Rescue Grant Program May Update
This post was contributed by Connie Taylor, NCEA Monarch Grant Program Teacher Leader. A highlight this month was our first and second grade field trip to “The Butterfly House” in Whitehouse, Ohio. Students were able to interact with various kinds of butterflies in the indoor garden area, view a chrysalis exhibit showing numerous emerging […]
Sts. Peter & Paul School Monarch Butterfly Rescue Grant Program May Update
This post was contributed by Connie Lake and Deb Moffit, NCEA Monarch Grant Program Teacher Leaders. We had an exciting month of growth, not just with the plants, but with the expansion of the garden! We continued to have Citizen Scientist Tuesday to learn about new and exciting topics. Each month we try to incorporate […]
Saint Paul’s School Monarch Butterfly Rescue Grant Program May Update
This post was contributed by Ann Pfalzgraf, NCEA Monarch Grant Program Teacher Leader. It has been a busy month for us at St. Paul’s. This month has been mostly a wrap up for the nine seniors in the Environmental Science Class. We finished the final touches on the garden and maintained it by watering and […]
St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic School Monarch Butterfly Rescue Grant Program May Update
This post was contributed by Holly Rice, NCEA Monarch Grant Program Teacher Leader. We now have two completed gardens at St. Elizabeth! Our courtyard plants are showing a lot of growth during the first month since completion. The butterfly garden in front of the school has four varieties of milkweed and the plants had a […]
NAEP Technology and Engineering Literacy
This post was contributed by Dale McDonald, PBVM, PhD, NCEA Director of Public Policy. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released the results of the first-ever nationally representative assessment of technology and engineering literacy. The Technology and Engineering Literacy (TEL) assessment measured whether students are able to apply technology and engineering skills to real-life […]
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, […]
Students raise salmon, release them into Rogue River
This post was contributed by Annalise Kransz, Director of Communications at the Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids, MI. Students at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic School in Belmont, MI were able to live the call of Pope Francis in caring for “our common home” with participation in the Salmon in the Classroom program […]
New program offers 40 grants to try local Catholic schools
Our Lady of Victory School in Tyrone, GA is one of the four schools where the Welcome Grants can be used. On May 12, 40 Welcome Grants were introduced to four Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Atlanta by the Office of Catholic Schools. The grants will provide reduced tuition for two years to help […]
