October is Missions Month In his 2011 World Mission Day Message, Pope Benedict XVI states that, “Faith is strengthened when it’s given to others!” As educators and leaders in our Catholic schools and parishes, you work hard to share your faith with your students, and encourage them to share their own faith through word and deed. Last spring, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers and the Archdiocese of Seattle introduced our first annual Youth on Mission Contest as a way to highlight this sharing of faith in our local schools. Now, we are introducing our 2012 contest, Mission: Possible, around the theme, “Christ Has No Body Now But Yours.”
We encourage you and your students to reflect upon these questions, brainstorm how you can live out these paths during the school year, and document your efforts to live out mission. The deadline for this contest is Pentecost Sunday, May 27th, 2012. We invite students to submit videos, photo journals, or other artistic entries that speak to the theme, “Christ Has No Body Now But Yours.”
Resources are available at:
Resources.Maryknoll.Us and SeattleArchdiocese.org/Missions and here at SCL!
Thank you for helping to plant the seeds of Christ’s love in our youth.
Kevin Foy
Mission Promotion Coordinator
Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers
Ph: 206-322-8831
October Teacher Opportunities!
TEACHER LEADERS continue to shine in our Archdiocese of Seattle! Congratulations to distinguished Catholic school teacher, Melissa Kennedy, Ph.D for her amazing work at Holy Names Academy, Seattle and being honored as one of the 2011 Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools (TOPSS) Excellence in Teaching Award. BRAVO! For the rest of the story, please visit:http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/09/teaching-excellence.aspx
MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS: Sister Susan Francois, the Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center in Seattle, would like to extend an instructional learning opportunity to interested middle schools throughout the Archdiocese by presenting Human Trafficking Webinar: an online workshop for Catholic Middle schools on Modern Day Slavery. Using a platform called GoToWebinar which requires only that schools have internet access, students do not need to have any specifically software as the program is web based. It works either with SmartBoard technology or in classrooms which have a LCD projector with speakers and microphone. For further information , visit our online religion forum at
http://www.seecelebrateandlive.org/site/showthread.php?889-Intercommunity-Peace-and-Justice-Center-Middle-School-Opportunity
As members of NCEA…National Catholic Educational Association, please remember there is much available at your fingertips to support your role as a Catholic School Educator:
Elementary Department Secondary Department Religious Education
The Gardens continue to GROW! “Stewardship Garden of Citizenship” for the month of October are available to you in electronic format on SCL or visit the Office of Stewardship website at http://www.seattlearchdiocese.org/Stewardship/PS/12Gardens.aspx
Thank you to Jackie Kerrigan and Scott Bader for their continued support of the 12 Gardens of Stewardship curriculum bundles.
- Stewardship Garden of Citizenship – Lesson Plan from ‘Learning to Give’ – for Gr. 6-8
- Stewardship Garden of Citizenship – Student Activities and Bulletin Board Ideas – for Gr. 6-8
- Stewardship Garden of Citizenship – Prayer Service
- Stewardship Garden of Citizenship - Scriptures
- Stewardship Garden of Citizenship - Saint
- Stewardship Garden of Citizenship – Family Reflections for Parent Packets
DENSHO: The Japanese American Legacy Project would like to invite you and your colleagues to participate in an upcoming professional development series for secondary social studies and language arts teachers. See Densho website.
• October 20 and November 3, 2011 (must attend both sessions)
• 3:30 - 7:00 pm (box dinner provided)
• John Stanford Center for Educational Excellence 2445 Third Ave. So., Seattle 98134
• 6 clock hours (Seattle Schools)
• $100 honoraria (must attend both sessions and complete required assignments)
Open to middle and high school teachers - priority given to Seattle Public Schools' teachers. Register by emailing info@densho.org.
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