Category: Operational Vitality

This post was contributed by Jennifer Ryan, Admissions at Saint Bridget School in Framingham, MA. Monday – Celebrating our Community. Saint Bridget School had an all-school service day. Here is what we did: PreK & K – invited the 9:00am Mass parishioners to come over after mass for breakfast and coffee baked that morning by […]

This post was contributed by Danielle Kinnamont. As a child, a Catholic school education was all I knew, attending Catholic school from the ages of 3-23. I grew up surrounded by religious sisters and priests, knowing that First Friday meant Mass and Lent meant lots of grilled cheese and pizza in the cafeteria. However, there […]

This post was contributed by Heather Gossart, NCEA Consultant. They come from across the street and from across the world…they are children who create a rainbow of colors and cultures and musical languages. Yet, above all in this small Catholic school tucked away in a Maryland community in the Archdiocese of Washington, they call themselves […]

This post was contributed by Pam Bernards, NCEA Director of Professional Development. During my Catholic Schools Week visit to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, I was treated to a wonderful professional development session for the faculty of St. Helena School provided by Sr. Edward Quinn, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment. The topic: Effective Use […]

This post was contributed by Pam Bernards, NCEA Director of Professional Development. Catholic Schools Week is a time to celebrate the Good News of Catholic school education. There is no better way to do this than to honor and recognize those who give so much in service to the students, the teachers. When I was […]

This post was contributed by Dorothy Shufflebarger, teacher at Charlottesville Catholic School. After having taught at Charlottesville Catholic School for a year and a half, I have come to realize the school is a unique and special place for students and teachers alike. Charlottesville Catholic School offers state of the art academics, spiritual growth and […]

This post was contributed by Sadie Dingfelder. Rebecca El Choueiry and Gabriel MacPhail pose with a model of their satellite. (Sadie Dingfelder/Express) St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington is poised to become the first grade school to send a satellite into orbit, according to NASA. The pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade students built the shoebox-sized satellite […]

This post was contributed by Andrea Kopp, NCEA Educational Resource Manager When Mr. Boss entered the seminary for the Congregation of the Resurrection, he didn’t know his vocation would be teaching. After discerning the priesthood and realizing it was not where he was being called, he returned to his family in Panama City, FL when […]

This post was contributed by Michael Rockers, Ed.D., Diocese of Honolulu. As a 30-year-old principal of a Catholic school in Arkansas, I was overwhelmed to say the least. I did not have a degree in educational leadership. I had only taught for eight years and looked like I was 18. Once, when the pastor introduced […]

This post was contributed by Nicole Ossevoort, the Communications & Social Media Specialist for the Diocese of Syracuse in Syracuse, NY. Tuesday, February 2nd was a big day across the Diocese of Syracuse! Day of Service Cathedral Academy at Pompei Syracuse On that day, 22 schools in four regions across the seven counties of the […]