Office of
Catholic Schools
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As Lent approaches let us remember that Lent is a season for Fasting and Feasting
Fast from judging others; Feast on God’s living in them…
Fast from harsh words; Feast on words that build up others…
Fast from discontent; Feast on gratitude…
Fast from pessimism; Feast on optimism…
Fast from worry; Feast on God’s care…
Fast from complaining; Feast on appreciation…
Fast from bitterness; Feast on forgiveness…
Fast from self-concern; Feast on compassion for others…
Fast from discouragement; Feast on hope
Fast from facts that depress; Feast on truth…
Fast from idle gossip; Feast on silence with a prayerful purpose…
Fast from thoughts that weaken; feast on promises that inspire..
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Dates at a Glance (articles below or *in previous edition*):
- Feb. 24 Principals Meeting (VIRTUAL) Morning Session 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Afternoon Session
1:00 PM-3:00 PM
- March 1 SNSP deadline
- March 2 New Administrator meeting (9:00-1:00)
- March 2 ACRE window opens
- March 4 New Teacher Methods B in-service
- March 6 WCRIS Conference
- March 10 PowerSchool User Group 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Technology- Digital Learning Champions 10:15 AM - 11:30 PM
- March 10 Spring System/School Presidents Meeting 10:00 AM-2:00 PM
- March 12 Spring High School Principals Meeting 10:00 AM-2:00 PM
- March 19 School Business Admin Conf Call DPI Audit 9 AM-10:30 AM
- March 30 Spring MAP CRF due 2 weeks prior to assessment (MAP dates: April 13-May 8)
- March 31 ACRE Assessment Window Closes
- March 31 Meemic Foundation Grants due
- May 5 Principal and Pastor day
Mark Your Calendar
September 24, 2020 - All Schools Mass for grades 3-12 at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help.
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Here is the 20-21 Office of Catholic Schools Calendar.
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Second Semester Newsletter Dates:
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Here are the dates for the second semester Catholic Schools Updates:
Feb. 21
March 6 & 20
April 3 & 17
May 1 & 15
June 5
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Administrative Assistant Professional Development Day
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April 30,2020
8:30 - 2:30
Green Bay Distillery
As the first person many encounter when they enter our schools, our Receptionist/Administrative Assistant is critical in providing amazing hospitality and building relationships. This day will be dedicated to improving customer service skills, keeping school families engaged and happy and growing your school enrollment. Registration will be opening next month but please make sure to put this on your calendar to ensure adequate coverage for the day.
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Legal Reminder 2020 Letter
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Please read this legal reminder for school administrators from Fr. Dan Felton, Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia.
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Bishop Ricken is inviting all parishes, schools, and families in our diocese to join in a special year of prayer in honor of St. Joseph. There have been several resources created for use in our homes, schools, and parishes.
Prayer cards will be delivered in early March
. The Holy Year will kick off with a Solemn Nine Day
Novena to St. Joseph
which will take place
March 10-19.
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On the teacher contracts this year, there is a change in line #4 dealing with Wisconsin License Number. You need to specify the license number.
If the employee has a life license, enter the original life license date. If the employee does not yet have a life license, enter the expiration date of the current license.
The "Our Promise to Protect" Acknowledgement form has also been updated. Please make sure you have teachers and staff sign the updated form this year.
Contract forms, directions, and information are found on the diocesan school Google site
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The dates for Spring MAP are
April 13-May 8
. We hope that schools will complete testing by May 8 as student engagement for testing drops beyond that. Best practice is to work with students before the assessment to go over the goals for the year and how they can demonstrate their accomplishments in those goals. MAP is only one assessment at one point in time, but it does have indicators of learning along with other tools. As teachers, our goal should be for 100% of our students to make or go beyond the target growth. Just a reminder that when a student only achieves their target growth number, it keeps them at approximately the same percentile (space and place). If you are trying to close gaps, one must exceed the target number. Just a reminder that the assessment can be completed in multiple sessions and math and language may be read to students or use the computer assisted voice. Please don’t hesitate to contact
Jane Schuelle
r if you have any questions.
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Introducing: Awareity
From the Office of Safe Environment
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Dear Principals and Catechetical Leaders,
This email is sent to inform you of a new Incident Reporting system being launched diocesan wide. This web-based prevention system called Awareity is a comprehensive platform for reporting, tracking and documenting incidents and concerns. Awareity empowers parents, students, school and religious education staff, families, neighbors, visitors and all other community members to be heard and to safely report warning signs and trouble.
Please find the link below to a letter specific to Principals and RE leaders. This letter provides an overview of the tool and how to include that tool on your websites. This letter can be shared with your staffs and volunteers so they are aware of the tool. Also included is a letter for you to send to parents with similar information. This letter is in Word doc format and needs to be customized for the date you will release and for the website for your school or parish. The pieces to update are highlighted in
RED
in the document.
Also find linked below information flyers and a poster. You may use them in whatever way you think best. A story on the tool will run in the Feb. 21 issue of The Compass , which is going to all households in the diocese. All the materials above will also be shared in the Feb 26 edition of the Parish Pages, if you are a subscriber.
If you have any questions about the release of information for parents, feel free to contact Justine Lodl in the Office of Communications at
jlodl@gbdioc.org
or 920-272-8213.
If you have questions regarding the incident reporting tool, contact Courtney Coopman in the Office of Safe Environment at
ccoopman@gbdioc.org
or 920-272-8174.
Links to supporting documents:
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March 8 - 14
Catholic Sisters Week shines a light on the spirituality, mission and community building of women religious. Please consider having your school show their appreciation to our women religious. You can send thank you cards, invite them to lunch, or host a special mass that week for them. If you would like information to put up in your school, there is a website where you can download posters, etc.
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Herb Kohl Foundation Announces Recipients
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Congratulations to the following students, teachers and principal on their award from the Herb Kohl Foundation:
Principal Award
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Mike Cattani
, Principal at St. Thomas Aquinas Academy in Marinette/Peshtigo. He will receive a $6000 grant and a matching $6000 grant to the school.
Teacher Award
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Sara Lawman Potter
, Teacher at Chilton Area Catholic Schools in Chilton. She will receive a $6000 grant and a matching $6000 grant to the school.
Student Excellence Award
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Scott Russel
from Notre Dame Academy in Green Bay and
Nicholas Welnetz
from Roncalli High School in Manitowoc. Each student will receive a $10,000 scholarship towards their education.
Student Initiative Award
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Lindsey Albaugh
from St. Thomas Aquinas Academy in Marinette. Lindsey will receive a $10,000 scholarship for her education.
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Director of Mission and Discipleship
Roncalli Catholic Schools
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With the concurrence of Bishop David Ricken, Dr. Robert Callahan, President of Holy Family College, and Mr. John Stelzer, President of Roncalli Catholic Schools, Rev. David Beaudry will begin a new role as Director of Mission and Discipleship with the Roncalli Catholic Schools beginning 1 July 2020.
In his new role, Rev. Beaudry will be responsible for: spiritual development of faculty and staff; mission outreach to nurture Christ-centered relationships within parish families and their school families; accompanying, visibly walking with and listening to local parish communities to discern and grow missionary disciples who discover, follow, worship and share Jesus; engaging community organizations county-wide; and finally, encouraging investment in the Combined Campaign to raise financial resources to assist both parishes and Roncalli Catholic Schools.
Reverend Beaudry will continue in his role as Priest Celebrant and Priest Moderator for St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Community, Newton, Instructor of Theology at Holy Family College, Manitowoc and continue to serve as Vicar for Vicariate V.
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Building Christian Faith with Science:
Two Program Opportunities
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Dr. Warren Johnson has graciously offered to present courses that navigate the truths of faith and science and how Christians can boldly purse science without reservation. He has two formats:
- Science & Christianity (90 minutes) for students (grades 6 and up) and adults
- Integrating Science & Christianity: (five, 2-hour sessions). This has been approved to serve as Ongoing Formation. Textbook required.
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“Catholic But Not Christian"
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t is that time of year, when people in our school communities get “cranky” and it can feel that we are not able to do anything well. To step back and get perspective, read the latest article from Dr. Tim Uhl “Catholic But Not Christian” in the February, 16, 2020 edition of Catholic Schools Matters:
https://www.smore.com/4w5my
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Thank You All Saints in Antigo
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A special thank you to the Scrip Team at All Saints in Antigo for sharing how they have grown their program in our school webinar. We appreciate you taking the time to help all our schools benefit and grow their programs!
If you were not able to participate in the webinar, here are the links for the recording and slide deck:
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Starting this spring the Diocese of Green Bay and Office of Catholic Schools will be going to all the area college career fairs. Our goal is to assist in finding staff for our parishes and schools by getting resumes and providing leads. If you know you will be having openings, please let us know so we can make sure to mention that to interested candidates. Please contact
Lori Paul
with any openings. Please continue to also place your ads on WECAN or other sites you have been using.
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Results from TV Commercial
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The results are in and the TV commercial that aired around Catholic Schools Week was successful! Of those that saw the commercial on-line, 60% watched the entire commercial. 8,487 individuals went to the website and 400 clicked through to find a school. Demographics show that the ad was mostly viewed by men and women in the 25-34 and 35-44 age groups. We hope you are seeing success in your schools and ask that you let
Lori Paul
know if any new families come as a result of the commercial or if they mention seeing it.
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As you begin to receive your Choice applications, please remember to go in and make sure that you have collected all the documentation required for that student/family. All students must be
verified
by the Choice Administrator by
April 16, 2020
. However - don’t wait! The sooner you get this done, the sooner you will know from a budget standpoint the expected tuition revenue for 2020-2021.
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Engaging Millennial and Gen Z Donors
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April 23 from 1:00 - 3:00 at Lourdes High School
Join Brenda Haines from Blue Door Consulting on understanding how generational shifts are affecting giving, how to reach givers through various information sources, and the top 3 tips you need to know to reach the next generation. There is no charge for the presentation.
Deadline to register is April 17, 2020.
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Simple K-12
Ten of our schools used the online professional development platform, Simple K-12. There have been positives from the users. We are looking to renew the contract for next year and will need to know if more schools are interested in participating. (more people less cost). This year the participating schools paid approximately $80 per teacher for PD all year. Title II funding can be used. Perhaps you may want to offer it to teachers and allow them to choose. Please email
Lisa Gruber, lgruber@gbdioc.org
your interest in Simple K12 and the number of subscriptions you might want, by
March 17th.
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The Office of Catholic Schools will be running a promotion in the
February 21st Compass Issue
that goes to ALL Catholic households. The ad waives the registration fee for
NEW FAMILIES (K-12)
that are not currently enrolled in any other Diocese of Green Bay Catholic school and who
register between February 21 and 29, 2020.
Families must bring in the ad. Please do not cut out a bunch of them and use them – we are trying to measure the effectiveness of the campaign. If you have any families that qualify you need to submit the following:
1. Copy of registration form showing student name and grade they are entering.
2. The original coupon from the Compass.
3. An invoice with the amount due to the school.
4. Choice students are not eligible for reimbursement as the school cannot charge registration fees under Wisconsin regulations.
This must be submitted to
Lori Paul
no later than
March 13, 2020
in order to receive reimbursement. All invoices received after that time will not be compensated.
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Lent
will be here before we know it. Ash Wednesday is February 26. Here are a couple of links to great
free
Lenten resources. Please share/edit/use as much or as little as you like.
NEW:
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The billing will be sent to you for WCRIS dues. It is based on 2018-2019 PK4-12 enrollment.
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Haven't Had Enough Yet?
There's More!
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NCEA webinars cover trending and need-to-know topics relevant to your career in Catholic education. All participants will receive the recorded webinar and presentation files for reference and inclusion among other professional learning resources.
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And more . . .
Click on icon below to read the latest issue of
Catholic School Matters
Newsletter from NCEA and Dr. Tim Uhl.
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Office of Catholic Schools
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