Office of Catholic Schools

September 13, 2019

Real Quick: Needed:1st Grade Math Expressions, Volumes 1 & 2 (ISBN 978-054782451-2 and 978-054781336-3) softcover. Please contact Jackie Behnke, sjshprincipal@gmail.com Custodian Needed: at St. Ignatius, Kaukauna. Please contact Nathan Vandehey at headmaster@stignatiuskaukauna.org. As you requested: Prayer shared on Aug 23 by Mother Mary Catherine from St. Mother Teresa. School Campus Ministers Mtg: Tuesday, Sept. 17; 10am-Noon; Bona Hall 216, Diocesan Campus. See Agenda.

Dates at a Glance (articles below or *in previous edition*): Today! Sept 13: Due date for Directory Info Sept 16*: New Administrators Mtg. Sept 17: School Campus Ministers Meeting Sept 18: New Teacher Orientation Sept 18: REBOOT @ Notre Dame Academy Sept 20: Third Friday Count Sept 23: DASA Executive Meeting Sept 26: (& Mar 4): New Teachers & Methods B FCC Course, Diocesan Campus Sept 30: SNSP 3rd Friday Count Report Due Sept 30: WRISA Annual Reports Due to Office of Catholic Schools October: Extraordinary Missions Month Oct 1: Choice 3rd Friday Count Due Oct 1: Catholic Foundation Grant Application Process Opens Oct 3-4: WI Assoc for Talented & Gifted Conference, WI Dells Oct 4*: MAP Window Closes Oct 7-8*: Blended Learning Conference, Milwaukee Oct 8: Kohl Fellowship Nomination Window closes Oct 7-9*: Mustard Seed Project Oct 9: Scrip Webinar Oct 15: Deadline for Whatsoever You Do Writing project. Oct 18: Deadline for Background Check (Safe Environment) Dec 8: Green Bay Youth Conference Index of Past Topics

Hurricane Relief: How Can Your Catholic School Help? These suggestions are offered by NCEA: Cross Catholic Outreach is working with Catholic Charities of Miami and the Archdiocese of Nassau to provide much-needed food and medical supplies to affected families and children.

Catholic Relief Services—along with local partners—is working quickly to assess immediate needs, like food, shelter and safe water to affected families. Fundraising/awareness ideas include: non-uniform days, car washes, jeans days, bake sales and good old-fashioned donation "jars" that helped drive donations. Share ideas and connect with NCEA on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Formerly Know As "Initial Educators" We invite all new teachers in the Diocese of Green Bay to come for new teacher professional development.  September 26 and concluding on March 4 from 9:00-2:30. This is for teachers who have not had the Methods B course or are new teachers to Catholic schools. The focus is on integrating faith in the classroom and discipleship in all that we do. Register for New Teachers

The cost to attend both sessions is $30 which includes lunch and materials.

September 18 | Green Bay | The Green Bay Parishes and Notre Dame Academy are hosting Reboot with Chris Stefanick on September, 18.  As part of this opportunity we will be having a session for our High Schools that day beginning at 10 AM with Mass with Bishop Ricken.  It is his expectation that all the high schools attend this event.  Please plan to arrive between 9:30am and 9:45am and direct any logistical questions to Greg Masarik, Associate Principal, Notre Dame Academy; Tel: 920-429-6100;Email: gmasarik@notredameacademy.com

Online Directory of Presidents, Administrators, Principals: Last Chance to be Included Th e Office of Catholic Schools is currently developing an on-line directory with all our Presidents, Principals and Administrators. Please take a few minutes to complete the online questionnaire. We ask you to enter your information by today, Friday, September 13th so that we can send it out to everyone by September 30th!  Info for Directory (Deadline: Today!)

Kohl Principal Leadership, Teacher Fellowship & Student Scholarship The window for nominating Wisconsin teachers and principals for 2020 Herb Kohl teacher fellowships and principal leadership awards is open through Tuesday, October 8, 2019 . If your nominee chooses to apply, he or she will be considered for a $6,000 personal grant and a $6,000 matching grant for his or her school. The Herb Kohl Foundation annually selects 100 teachers and 16 principals to receive awards. To Nominate a Teacher To Nominate a Principal

2020 Excellence Scholarship Application Available Now Wisconsin high school seniors can apply for the $10,000 Herb Kohl Excellence scholarship through November 26, 2019 for private and homeschool applicants. The Herb Kohl Foundation annually selects 100 students to receive $10,000 Excellence scholarships. Student Excellence Application

Grant Application Process Opens October 1st

The Catholic Foundation Grant Application Process will be available from October 1 to December 1, 2019 for Advancing the Mission - Evangelization, Leadership Development and Lifelong Catechesis; Lumen Christi and the Catholic Foundation Areas of Interest . To apply, see the Catholic Foundation website after October 1, 2019.

Did You Miss the Sophia Institute in July? Here's Another Chance! Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019; 8:30am-2:30pm Green Bay Distillery: No Charge to Attend, but Registration Required. Join this FREE one-day program on helping students see the beauty of the profound realities of being created Male and Female through the lens of St. Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body. Here's a comment from someone who attended the July presentation . . .  "The day was very hands on. It showed you how to use some of the information in the classroom by having us do the activity. This also made learning fun for us. I think that is one of my favorite things about the Sofia presentations....the quality of the information and the hands on practical side."

Register for Sophia Institute's "In His Image"

School Choice Updates/Deadlines School Choice Third Friday September Count: September 20, 2019 : All schools complete the third Friday in September count of Choice students enrolled in their school. Schools use this information to start preparing in OAS the third Friday September Count Report.  The report is due October 1, 2019! WISEdata requires schools to verify that all Choice students are properly flagged in the school's SIS for the third Friday of September Count Date. For a student to be included in the third Friday of September Count in the SIS, the student must be enrolled in the school by the count date and the student must be assigned to a valid grade for his or her school. The student must also have been marked as Present or Absent for Receiving Services. By the End of September - The DPI processes the September state aid payments to eligible schools by direct deposit, based on each school's eligible applications and corresponding class list submitted to the DPI in the Preliminary Enrollment Report. SNSP Update: The deadline for schools to submit the 3rd Friday in September Pupil Count Report is September 30, 2019.

SNSP Agreement of Services Form WCRIS' Modifications to DPI's Example Under the Special Needs Scholarship Program (SNSP), private schools are required to develop with a student’s parent an agreement of services that will be provided by the school. The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has developed a services agreement form that it uses as an example during SNSP training. Schools are not required to use this form although it may be tempting to simply copy it.

Download WCRIS' Template

WCRIS has developed a fillable template for principals and special education teachers to use when completing the SNSP parent/school agreement. The WCRIS template has been reviewed and approved by legal counsel and clarifies the school’s obligations. The WCRIS template includes language that may help protect your school from issues that could arise when services for SNSP students are over-promised, and under-delivered, as may occur with the DPI example form.

Webinar: Using Script to Increase Revenue & Enrollment Presented by Great Lakes ShopWithScrip Plan to join the conversation by logging onto this webinar October 9, 1:30pm-3pm, to find out how to effectively use Scrip in your school. While all schools use Scrip, not each school is getting the full financial benefits! This webinar will provide useful tips to help you grow your Scrip sales! More details will be in the next newsletter!

State Student Immunization Law Webinars The Department of Health Services released recordings of the August 27 webinar that addressed school immunization requirements. Feel free to review the webinar for the start of the school year. Information about immunizations and private schools can be found on page 43 of the WCRIS 2018 – 19 Legal Handbook.

Is Your School Up to Date in PowerSchool? Please make sure you have everything set in Powerschool for the start of the new year. There is a detailed checklist on the Diocese website with everything you need to have done. Click here for a copy!

Just a reminder that if you need to use the IT help desk, submit a request on-line at gbhelpdesk@gbdioc.org . The tickets are tracked and a report given to Deacon Conrad, IT Director, each week on what issues schools and parishes are having. If you email a staff person, Deacon Conrad will not see that and cannot track frequency of issues.

ATTENTION--ALL SCHOOLS-- BACKGROUND CHECKS Whether your school is a part of choice program or not, you will need to provide the following to Deb Knaus, Office of Safe Environment, no Later than October 18th, 2019.  This will cover your reporting for the third quarter.   THIS IS A HARD DEADLINE

1) A copy of your most Current Payroll that was the closest to October 15th. Included on the report should be name and address of all paid individuals that are in contact with children at your school, this includes paid coaches. 2) If there are any employees that are for some reason are not included on this latest payroll but were paid from July 1, 2019 forward at some point we must have those names and addresses as well. 3) If you had any employees under the age of 18 that have not had a background check please contact Deb on the process to get this complete as they are required to have a check as well. 4) For those in the Choice Program, these lists will be used for your fall agreed procedures list if you are a part of the Diocese Audit contract.  5) The Auditors will verify the accuracy of the lists with our background checks at the Diocese so you will not have to provide the auditors with any information on background checks. 6) If there is an issue with any background checks or missing names we will contact you direct.   Should you have any questions please contact Dean at dgerondale@gbdioc.org

WRISA Annual Report Instructions WRISA Information for Schools Filing an Annual Report. Schools that DID host a Visiting Team during the 2018-19 school year. WRISA Information for Schools Filing an Annual Report. Schools that DID NOT host a Visiting Team during the 2018-19 school year.

FYI: WRISA Annual Report Webinars Recordings Thursday, September 5, 2019 Friday, September 6, 2019 Slide Deck

Dear 4th-7th Grade Religion & English Teachers, Here's an invitation and opportunity for student writing to be considered for publication by 23rd Publications.   Topic: Role models in the faith for young people (grades 4-7) One book to be published for boys; another for girls. Authors are looking for content from Catholic school students and parish faith formation students. Read much more about the project and how students can contribute. For more information contact Tony Pichler whatsoeveryoudogb@gmail.com .

WI Association for Talented & Gifted Conference The Wisconsin Association for Talented and Gifted (WATG) annual conference brings together parents, teachers, gifted/talented coordinators, school administrators and university faculty working on behalf of gifted and talented youth across the state. This year, the conference is October 3-4 in the Wisconsin Dells. For more information or to register please click here .

The Results Are In . . . Schools & Social Media Schneider Media, recently conducted a survey to see how schools use social media. A complete copy of the report can be found here .

October: Extraordinary Mission Month There are free materials available: ·      Bishop's Letter, Parish Announcements & World Mission Sunday Intercessory Prayers ·      Fact Sheet, Pope Francis Letter ·      Extraordinary Mission Month prayer cards (e-mail request) ·      Missionary speakers to come speak to student groups (request by e-mail)   For more information, please contact Cindy St. Aubin , Diocesan World Mission Director.

NCEA Catholic Schools Week: November 17-23 NCEA will be launching Discover Catholic Schools Week November 17 - 23! The Diocese will be sponsoring a full page ad in the Compass listing all our schools. But now is the time to get a team together and to start planning the event. Here are the themes and some ideas for each day! Start with Sunday, Nov. 17: Celebrating Your Parish Then . . .

Monday: Celebrating Your Community Tuesday: Celebrating  Your Students Wednesday: Celebrating  the Nation Thursday: Celebrating Vocations Friday: Celebrating Faculty, Staff, and Volunteers

What Does Alpha (or CES, or Discipleship Formation) Have to Do with Catechetical Certification? Read on. . . In order to encourage full participation and in support of the Diocesan mission of becoming missionary disciples, the attendance of a complete ALPHA series (all sessions plus the Alpha day-away), or Catholic Evangelization Studies course (all sessions) or a full-day Discipleship Formation seminar will count as Enrichment, and participants will be allowed to defer the usual FCC requirements to the following year.  In other words, if a catechist/school teacher/administrator participates in one of the above listed courses in 2020, they have met the requirement for catechetical certification for that year but will still need to fulfill their usual FCC requirements the following year. If completed individually (as opposed to a school-wide attendance), a Completion Form must be submitted to the Office of Families & Schools after the completion of the course as verification. Completion forms can be found online or at through the course instructor.

Vocations in Your School If you are having a special mass or would like to have Father Mark Mleziva or Father Adam Bradley talk to your students about vocations, please contact Jennie Huettl at 920-272-8316 or jhuettl@gbdioc.org . She can help schedule based on their availability.

Green Bay Youth Conference (GBYC) : Save the Date! DATE: Sunday, December 8, 2019 TIME: 8:30am - 5:45pm PLACE: National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, Champion, WI SCHEDULED SPEAKERS: Patrick Reis, Director of Encounter Ministries Sr. Ann Immaculee, Sisters of Life Music by Sonar GBYC Info & Registration

List of Upcoming Webinars Haven't Had Enough Yet? There's More! 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.

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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