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Saints in Our Classroom

On the front page of our school website, you can find the following mission statement: St. Catherine of Alexandria School is a Catholic community where parents and teachers educate life-long...

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A Camper’s Brutally Honest Review of Ramen Cup Noodles

Twenty-five miles deep into the Sierra Nevada Mountains, six teachers gather around a table, pondering life’s greatest question: Which Ramen Noodle flavor reigns supreme? I’m Marco, your resident amateur camper...

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Catholic Schools Enable Teachers, Students to Feel "Fully Alive"

I am a product of public schools from pre-school clear through university, even teaching in a massive public high school as a student teacher. The eighteen-year experience was overwhelmingly positive...

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Come and See: Catholic Schools Plant Seeds for Vocations

I discovered my vocation to be a priest in Catholic schools. Surely, the seed was planted by the diocesan priests and IHM sisters who taught me at St. Pius X...

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Why I Sent My Protestant Son to a Catholic School

"We don't teach them because they're Catholic but because we are Catholic." - Cardinal James Hickey, Washington, DC This quote is a favorite of mine. Education Next dubbed it "a...

Catholic Schools Debunk the Myth of Unteachability

Pens need to be vertical. Every teacher knows that. When a student's wrist goes limp and his pen falls to the desk, it's trouble. It's the sign of despair, the...

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Catholic Schools Week 2016 - For Our Communities

Chicago Jesuit Academy, where I was blessed to work for four years, is a place of hope. Although it is surrounded by violence and poverty, and although the students are...

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Catholic Schools Week: 3 Ways to Celebrate All Students

Beginning tomorrow, Catholic school communities across the country will seize the opportunity to celebrate the extraordinary gift that we have in Catholic education. Most schools mark this festive week with...

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Catholic Schools Week 2016 - For Our Parishes

"The seeds of faith, sown at his Catholic school, drew Gabe's family together in faith and made them an inspiration for the parish" When I was an associate pastor at...

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Haiti, Through Other Eyes

After ten years working in Haiti, the Pearl of the Antilles, I couldn't help but feel the most recent trip helped me see the country, its beauty and its struggles...