Webinar: Jumpstarting Facility Improvements through Campus Master Planning

Join NCEA and H&A Architects on Tuesday, August 16 for the Jumpstarting Facility Improvements through Campus Master Planning webinar. Webinar Description: Facility improvements often take a back seat to other necessary financial outflows, yet quality, up-to-date school buildings and campuses are required in order to maintain enrollment and educational excellence. This webinar will detail the sequence […]

Webinar: Simple Online Tools to Elevate Your Religious Education Program

Join NCEA and SchoolSpeak on Thursday, August 11 for the Simple Online Tools to Elevate Your Religious Education Program  webinar. Webinar Description: Many parishes employ a religious education management solution for recording student and family data such as class enrollment, sacrament dates and contributions. Learn how you can easily elevate your religious education program to a […]

Closing Reception Speech at Bearing Witness

This article was contributed by Amy Granato, teacher Bishop Donahue HS in McMechen, WV. . Here is the speech delivered at the closing reception of the Bearing Witness program at the Romanian Embassy by teacher-participant Amy Granato. “Good evening Bearing Witness 2016 colleagues, facilitators, presenters, representatives of the ADL, NCEA, USCCB, officials of the Romanian Embassy: I have […]

Bearing Witness Participants Visit Holocaust Museum

This article was contributed by Amanda Bray Cody, 8th grade teacher at St. John Regional Catholic School in Frederick, MD. Catholic educators attending the Eileen Ludwig Greenland Bearing Witness Institute visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today as part of their third day of intensive study of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. Participants had opportunities to make personal […]

Bearing Witness

This article was contributed by Andrea Kopp, NCEA Manager of Educational Resources. 41 Catholic educators representing 24 states came together for an intensive week-long professional development opportunity about Holocaust Studies and teaching students about the dangers of bias, prejudice and its continuing effects on the world today.  The Eileen Ludwig Greenland National Bearing Witness Summer […]

Webinar: Emergency Preparedness Training Options for Houses of Worship

This article was contributed by the Office on Non-Public Education, Liaison to the nonpublic school community for the U.S. Department of Education. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is hosting a webinar July 19 focused on ways houses of worship and emergency managers can collaborate and use training programs like Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) to increase community […]

Magic of Coding

This post was contributed by Nancy Caramanico, Instructional Technology Specialist. One STREAM session, the Magic of Coding, treated attendees to demonstrations, coding ideas and even magic! Joseph Oleszczuk, Technology Coordinator for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, shared his five-years of experience coordinating a coding program in grades 1-8 and teaching coding in grades 5-8 at Holy […]