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This weekend we celebrate the Baptism of Jesus as we end the Christmas season. May our hearts be filled with the Holy Spirit as we recall our baptism as priest, prophet, and king.
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Come Holy Spirit,
fill the hearts of your faithful
and kindle in them the fire of Your Divine Love.
Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created,
and You shall renew the face of the earth.
O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit
instructed the hearts of the faithful.
Grant, that by the same Spirit we may be truly wise
and ever rejoice in His consolation.
We ask this through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
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Dates at a Glance (articles below or *in previous edition*):
Jan. 13 New School Administrators Meeting (9:00-1:00) CHANGED
- Jan. 14 PowerSchool User Group (8:30)
- Jan. 17 2020-2021 School Budgets Due
- Jan. 20 Diocesan Offices- Closed for Martin Luther King Day
- Jan 23 Business Administrator meeting (9-2) Bona Hall
- Jan. 24 Winter MAP window closes
- Jan. 26 Catholic Schools Week 2020 Begins
- Jan. 28 NCEA - Many Gifts - One Nation Event as Part of Catholic Schools Week
- Feb. 3 New School Administrators meeting (9:00-1:00)
- 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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PowerSchool and Schoology
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Schoology has teamed up with Powerschool in the area of a K-12 Learning Management System. In this purchase of Schoology by Powerschool, they will be transitioning away from Haiku. For anyone interested in learning more about Schoology, how it will integrate with Powerschool and connect with Google Classroom, feel free to join in the webinar on January 14 at 9:30.
https://powerschool.zoom.us/j/119330258
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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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Please remember that the DIGICOPY portal contains a great deal of templates for you to use for flyers, newsletters, etc. If you need assistance in creating them, please contact
Lori Paul.
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TV Commercial Ads in Support of Catholic Schools
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The commercial will air January 20-February 2 on E, Food, Freeform and Hallmark. It will air 10 times on each network between 10:00 am and midnight. It will also air during the Marquette Basketball games on January 24, January 29 and February 1. Finally, because we are using Spectrum, we are able to also air it on all streaming systems. (Roku, AppleTV, etc). This will help us reach those households that do not subscribe to cable TV. Please feel free to use the ad on your social media.
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Keith Ahrens from the Ahrens Group represents several publishers. Before Christmas he and I had the opportunity to talk about some of the new resources available. Some of you have asked about writing programs. He was excited to share two products:
Jump Into Writing: A Workshop Approach
by Zaner Bloser and
Being A Writer
by the Center for Collaborative Classroom. There are some opportunities to pilot these products.
If you are interested, feel free to contact
Keith Ahrens
Ahrens Education Group
920-460-0099
Companies represented: Zaner-Bloser, Booksource, Sundance-Newbridge, Okapi,Stenhouse, Collaborative Classroom, InquirED, ThinkCERCA For Special Discounts, Workshops, Professional Development, Samples, or Digital Access please go to our website at:
www.ahrenseducation.com
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Second Friday in January Count Due February 1, 2020
- Choice schools should count by grade level how many students were in attendance for instruction on the count date, or if absent, were in attendance for instruction at least one day before and one day after the count date. Students who are absent on the count date do not have to be in attendance for instruction on the exact day before and after the count date to meet the Choice count requirements. If a Choice student is absent on the count date (i.e. January 10), the school must ensure the student was not enrolled in another private school, a home-based private educational program, a charter school, or a public school district in or out of Wisconsin during the period of absence from the school.
- The school may not count a student on the count report if the student was enrolled in another school or home-based private educational program during the period of absence from the school.
- Choice administrators must submit in OAS the Second Friday in January Count Report. To access the report in OAS, schools should click on “January Count” on the left OAS menu bar. For schools with multiple pages of students, use the “save” or “next” button to save each page. This ensures data is saved in case the system times out. When completing the count report, schools must ensure the grade on the count report matches the grade the student was in on the 2nd Friday in January and update the grade in the count report if needed.
2020-21 School Year Choice Application Periods
Begins first weekday in February
All students that would like to participate in the Choice program must apply every year using the Online Parent Application
, available at
dpi.wi.gov/choice
. This includes students that participated in the Choice program in the prior school year. Schools are also encouraged to remind parents that if the number of eligible applications received during an open application period exceeds the number of seats available, a random drawing will be held.
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Business Administrators Meeting
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Please make sure school Business Administrators are aware of the meeting with Dean Gerondale on January 23, 2020 from 9:00-2:00 in Bona Hall room 39 at the Diocesan office. An email invitation was sent to them in early January.
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The Sophia Institute has once again secured a grant to have two offerings of faith formation for teachers in the Diocese of Green Bay. We have secured June 10 and 11. The topics will be Proclaiming the Kingdom (Missionary Discipleship) and Behold Your Mother (Mary). The location will be at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help.
Share this information with teachers so they can save the date! Registration will come out at a later date.
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Mental Health First Aid for Faith Leaders
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Faith and community leaders are often the first point of contact when individuals and families face mental health problems or traumatic events. In fact, in times of crisis, many will turn to trusted leaders in their communities before they turn to mental health professionals. Will you know how to respond?
Join other faith leaders to learn how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of addictions and mental illnesses.
Part 1: February 5 or 6 and Part 2: February 12 or 13
For more information, click on the button:
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Rural Life Essay or Drawing Contest
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For students in Grades 1-8: Create a picture or write an essay (200 words of less) on the topic:
"How does faith impact the work of farmers?"
Include student's name, address, grade and school/parish on back of an 8.5X11 drawing or essay. One entry per person. Deadline to enter February 14th.
Winners receive a Culver's gift card and entries published in the Rural Life issue of the Compass.
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It is time to send your class roster file to your MAP administrator if you are planning on taking the Winter test. The winter assessment provides an opportunity to have a mid year benchmark for how your students are progressing. The Winter test window is open from now until January 24.
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Thanks for letting us know you were interested in customizing a page for the Many Gifts, One Nation: A Day of Giving to Catholic Schools (January 28-29, 2020)!
If you filled out our interest form this fall
here is your reminder to say the portal is NOW OPEN.
If you missed the announcement email,
click here to fill out the opt-in form today
. Don't forget—all schools that customize their giving page by December 31, 2019 are automatically entered for a chance to win a $500 gift from NCEA to jumpstart their day of giving on January 28, 2020!
Looking for inspiration for promoting the day of giving? More than $1,125,000 was raised from 6,289 donations to 424 schools in 112 dioceses in 2019. This is just one example of the strength Catholic schools hold when we work together to promote the faith-filled and academically excellent education we all have at the core of our shared mission.
Read the success stories
of the schools with outstanding return in 2019.
With appreciation,
NCEA and FACTS
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National School Choice Week 2020
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State Capitol Rally
2 E Main St, Madison, WI 53703
January 28, 2020
SCHOOL CHOICE WI and HISPANICS FOR SCHOOL CHOICE
Invite You to Celebrate with Us
National School Choice Week 2020
There is one week a year where schools and students have the opportunity to bring out the yellow scarfs and join thousands of others throughout the nation to celebrate National School Choice Week.
Wisconsin has wonderful public, charter and private schools as well as virtual and homeschooling options. We want to make 2020 a celebration for all. Every child is special and unique and the wide variety of school options that Wisconsin has to offer is a reflection of that.
National School Choice Week will be a celebration to highlight your schools, your students and capture a glimpse of the amazing things that happen in your school every day. For that reason, we ask you fill out the second section of the registration form asap as we want to give all of you an opportunity to be part of the program. Register
HERE
This invitation is open to all schools that want to be part of the celebration. It will also give you the opportunity to provide your students with a lifetime experience, to be surrounded by hundreds of students from all over the state in a beautiful building where history has and is written every day, including our celebration!
We want to make this opportunity available to all. We understand that transportation can be a burden, please know that you will be reimbursed up to $500 dollars for your transportation expenses.
We are working on the agenda and we will confirm with you if your school has been selected to be part of the program, In the meantime, please mark your calendars and get creative!
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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.
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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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