The following blog was contributed by Max Engel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and co-author of Your School’s Catholic Identity: Name It, Claim It, and Build on It, with co-authors Barbara Brock, Ed.D., Timothy J. Cook, Ph.D., Ronald D. Fussell, Ed.D., Jean Louise Hearn, Ed.D. and Fr. Tom Simonds, SJ, Ed.D. […]
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Using the TV Show The Chosen to Introduce Students to Lectio Divina
The following blog was contributed by award-winning author, speaker and teacher, Amy J. Cattapan. Follow her at AJCattapan.com. As teachers and catechists scramble to continue faith-based education during this time of stay-at-home orders, a new TV show about Jesus and his disciples offers a unique way to introduce middle school and high school students to the […]
From Pivot to Shift: An Opportunity for Catholic Education
The following blog was contributed by Clare Kilbane, Ph.D., a faculty member, senior learning designer, and Catholic school liaison at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. Follow her on Twitter @clarerkilbane Right now it is not hyperbole to say, “the whole world is under quarantine.” Although It is difficult […]
Universal Design for Learning: Getting Started with Backward Design
The following blog was contributed by Michelle Lia, Ed.D., Assistant Director for Professional Learning, Andrew M. Greeley Center for Catholic Education, Loyola University Chicago in Illinois. You have just been hired to teach your dream grade. Hooray! When you are finished signing the paperwork, you are given a link to a Google folder. In it […]
Play Like A Champion: Following the Vatican’s Lead to Elevate the Culture of American Sport
The following blog was contributed by Kristin Komyatte Sheehan, Program Director, Pete Piscitello, Manager of Outreach and Operation Support, and Dr. Clark Power, Founder & Director of Play Like a Champion Today in Notre Dame, Indiana. In the midst of an ordinary spring, those of us involved in youth and high school sports would be […]
Cultivating Faith: A Guide to Building Catholic High School Campus Ministry
The following blog was contributed by Dan Masterton, Assistant Vocations Minister, The Clerics of St. Viator, in Arlington Heights, Illinois. In spring 2018, my principal emailed our school staff with a plug from NCEA. Its national convention was coming to Chicago in 2019, and they were inviting submissions for presentations. I’ll admit I hadn’t done […]
The three phases of Catholic education at a distance, “up-close”
The following blog was contributed by Clare Kilbane, Ph.D., a faculty member, senior learning designer, and Catholic school liaison at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. Follow her on Twitter @clarerkilbane It is safe to say that none of us has experienced anything like a global pandemic before. Therefore, […]
Building the Online Teaching Plane as We Fly It
The following blog was contributed by Rushton Hurley, speaker, trainer and the founder of the educational nonprofit Next Vista for Learning. Mr. Hurley originally published this blog on his own website on March 15, 2020. In the early 00’s, I spent time as a principal of an experimental online high school. We worked under a […]
Catholic Schools Meet the Challenge
The following blog was contributed by Kathy Mears, Interim President/CEO at the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) in Arlington, VA. A ten-year-old boy sat in his classroom and was asked by his teacher to recite the Ten Commandments. The little boy did not stand as required and did not state the Commandments. He knew the […]
Administrator’s Survival Guide: Assistance on the Leadership Journey
The following blog was contributed by Annette Marie Jones, Ed.D., educational consultant and former assistant director for school leadership at the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) in Arlington, VA. Are you a new administrator, an aspiring administrator, a superintendent who coaches new administrators, or a professor who educates aspiring administrators? NCEA’s new publication, Administrator’s Survival […]
