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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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Don't Think You're a Catholic School Donor? Think Again

Like many people, I sometimes have trouble sleeping on airplanes. The best solution to this is some reading. Usually, after a few pages or so of an innocuous novel or...

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What is 3-Sector Reform - and Why Should You Care?

We are all to some degree familiar with the phenomenon whereby a word or term is used so often that it ceases to have real meaning. If not, you need...

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Go Cubs Go: What Catholic Schools Can Learn from the Rise of the Chicago Cubs

There are some things that are just distinctly October. Flannel shirts, pumpkin spiced lattes, the changing leaves . . . and the Chicago Cubs. What's that, you say? The Cubs...

Why Learning Engineering is Important, Even for First Graders

If asked to "draw an engineer," you might, perhaps, draw a man with glasses, sitting alone at his desk. If you did, your picture would match up with those drawn...

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We Can Do Hard Things

At the end of August my Professional Learning Community conducted our first video chat. Through the wonders of the interwebs, it was delightful to see the smiling faces of our...

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An Awesome Week to Work for Catholic Schools

How refreshing was it to see stories in the news about Catholic schools this week that weren't about retrenching or demise or decline? Instead, we saw pictures of smiling children...

What Did Pope Francis Really Say Last Week? A Lesson Plan

A solid week has gone by since Pope Francis's historic visit to Our Lady Queen of Angels School in East Harlem, and the dust has finally settled. The pope is...

The Key to School Leadership: Love Those Hardest to Love

As the school year moves out of launch phase and picks up steam, it's all too easy for us as teachers and leaders to get caught up in planning, programming...