HAPPY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK!
SeeCelebrateandLive.org has transformed again!Please consider visiting our CSD website this week and see how we are growing. The CSD is working to build our structure for online forums and blogs to support the ambitious goals of accreditation, curriculum and personnel though accessibility options. We hope to be launching our first online Professional Learning Communities tied to accreditation and curriculum in the next few months.
University of Notre Dame ACE’s English as a New Language Program: (ACE-ENL) is dedicated to helping Catholic school teachers build expertise in teaching English as a second language. Enclosed in this mailing are flyers and a formal description of the ACE-ENL professional development opportunity available for teachers within our Archdiocese. For specific information, you are welcome to contact:
Clare D. Roach Associate Director, ACE-ENL Program
120 IEI Bldg. Notre Dame, IN 46556
croach1@nd.edu (574) 631-7657
Our local Notre Dame connection to the ACE- ENL Program is an ACE-ENL graduate, Martha Gibney, from St. Matthew School in Seattle. Martha shared this message to convey to interested teachers, “One strong component of the ND ENL program is that best practices in ESL instruction is not just about reading, writing, listening, and speaking. In addition to instructional strategies, the program focuses on cultural inclusiveness in a diverse school community. The role of the teacher, classroom, and school is to be a cultural bridge between the students' home culture and new, target culture. Building community and getting to know the deep cultural values of our students and families is a strong foundation of the ENL program, which mirrors the mission of our Catholic Schools.”
ONLINE SAFETY through OnGuardOnline: In Net Cetera: Chatting With Kids About Being Online, OnGuardOnline gives adults practical tips to help kids navigate the online world. Kids and parents have many ways of socializing and communicating online, but they come with certain risks. This guide encourages parents to reduce the risks by talking to kids about how they communicate – online and off – and helping kids engage in conduct they can be proud of. Net Cetera covers what parents need to know, where to go for more information, and issues to raise with kids about living their lives online.
OnGuard Online encourages you to use this guide with your kids, in your school, at your PTA meeting, or anywhere else parents might gather. Feel free to order as many free copies as you’d like, put your own sticker on it, reprint sections in a newsletter or on a website, download a button or link to it, or even reprint it with your own logo. These materials are in the public domain.
To order free copies of Net Cetera, visit bulkorder.ftc.gov. Copies available in Spanish and English for teachers, parents, students, cub scouts troops, etc. To find out more about reprinting the guide, contact OnGuardOnline@ftc.gov.
Net Cetera is available at http://www.onguardonline.gov/topics/net-cetera.aspx
Spanish version at http://www.alertaenlinea.gov/topics/net-cetera.aspx
NATIONAL CATHOLIC YOUTH CHOIR: The National Catholic Youth Choir seeking members for youth entering Grades 10, 11, and 12 at St. John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville Minnesota. Camp and tour takes place from June 15 - 29 2010, $900 scholarships available. Link: www.CatholicYouthChoir.org
JACOB FRIEDMAN HOLOCAUST WRITING AND ART CONTEST: This year’s contest asks students to consider how their lives might be different if people were more respectful and tolerant of each other’s differences. Open to students in grades 5-12 in the Pacific Northwest (WA, OR, ID, AK) Entries accepted now through April 2, 2010
Sponsored by the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center
http://www.wsherc.org/writingcontest/contest.aspx
Last year WSHERC received over 800 entries. The 2009 winners can be found on the Holocaust Center’s website – www.wsherc.org. The Holocaust Center is a non-profit organization with a mission to support educators teaching about the Holocaust, genocide, and related lessons of stereotyping, and the difference one person can make.
Tick, tick, tick……
MARCH 1st CSD GOAL: To have ALL SCHOOL CERTIFIED EMPLOYEES fully enrolled in the ePortfolio portion of AppliTrack by March 1st, 2010. As of today: 723 principals and teachers are fully enrolled in AppliTrack/ePortfolio. Keep going! Thank you!
Respectfully submitted,
Sandra Barton Smith
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