We hope everyone has enjoyed their Spring breaks.
Please note there will not be a Weekly Update on Good Friday.
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Michigan Association of Non-public Schools Faith-Based Educator Award |
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The Michigan Association of Non-public Schools (MANS) invites you to submit nominations for the 2022 MANS Faith-Based Educator Award. This award is one of five awards that recognize excellence in education in MANS member schools. Award winners demonstrate the very best in faith-based education and are leaders in the field. Educators may be nominated by administrators using the electronic submission below. The deadline for submission is June 30, 2022.
Nominations are peer-reviewed and awardees are recognized at the 2022 MANS Conference and Expo on November 4, 2022. Award winners and nominators are provided complimentary conference registration in recognition of their achievement.
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Michigan Association of Non-public Schools 2022 Education Conference and Expo - Lansing, Michigan |
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Announcing Friday's Keynote Speaker!
Sheri Wohlfert, 2018 MANS Faith-based Educator Awardee, is a Catholic wife, mom, speaker, and teacher. She uses her great sense of humor and her deep faith to help others discover the joy of being a child of God. Her roots are in Kansas, but her home is in Michigan. The mission of her ministry is to encourage others to take a good look at the simple ways we can all find God doing joyful, blessed, and amazing things smack dab in the middle of the laundry, ball games, farm chores, and the hundred other things we manage to cram into a day.
Sheri holds a bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education from Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas, and has a master’s in Elementary Education from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids. She spends her days at St. Mary Elementary School in Westphalia, MI teaching 5th and 6th-grade Theology.
Registration opens late April 2022
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MANS School Law Seminar - June 23, 2022
The 2022 MANS Law Day is being planned right now. Mark your calendar for June 23rd at the Michigan Catholic Conference to learn about legal topics of great importance to nonpublic schools in Michigan.
This event will be held at the Michigan Catholic Conference in Lansing, Michigan from 8:30 to noon.
Registration will be open soon.
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Creating Pathways toward School Success - July 29, 2022
This event, geared towards your school's most important ambassador, school secretaries and administrative assistants, is back in 2022! Join your colleagues and a variety of presenters for the Creating Pathways toward School Success retreat.
This event will be held at the Michigan Catholic Conference in Lansing, Michigan from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and will include presentations on Google Classroom, Self-Care, Customer Service, Health and Safety, and time for networking!
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The Let MI Kids Learn drive is ramping up. Both the Let MI Kids Learn Campaign and The Mackinac Center have helpful resources which explain the policy and the process of obtaining signatures. The links below are resources you can share with your school community:
Signature Collection Tip: As you complete the collection of signatures from your school community, be sure to send the petition forms to the following address:
Let MI Kids Learn
C/O National Petition Management
24293 Telegraph Road
Suite 285
Southfield, Michigan 48033
The sooner the signatures can be verified for accuracy against the Michigan voter database, the better!
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Non-public School Partner Update |
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Students reading below grade level? Beyond Basics delivers data-driven literacy solutions—90% of students in the program achieve grade-level movement in an average of six weeks.
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Meemic Wants to Celebrate Your Staff! |
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Teacher Appreciation Week is just a few weeks away, and the Meemic Foundation is eager to help you CELEBRATE your teachers and staff! They also want to ensure you and your staff are looped into the monthly grant opportunities available through our Meemic Foundation, a nonprofit started in 1992 by Meemic.
Did you know that our local Meemic Agents are also Meemic Foundation Advocates? Simply give them a call today. They can help you plan a celebration for your staff, as well as drop-in now for an in-school visit to share valuable information about Meemic and our Foundation.
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Welcome Friendzy as a MANS Business Partner! |
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Friendzy provides low burden turn-key SEL for students K-8th grade. The Friendzy program teaches SEL skills one time a week for 20-40 minutes using low-burden, turn-key social-emotional learning tools and resources including:
- A “Return to School SEL Plan”
- SEL Curriculum for K-8th grade with digital supplements
- Workbooks for all students
- Year-Long PD and Continuing Education
- Family and Community Resources
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Spend Your EANS Funds on Catapult Learning’s COVID Recovery Services |
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It’s not too late to take advantage of your EANS (Emergency Assistance for Non-Public Schools) funding! Help your students reduce summer and COVID learning loss and prepare them to start the new school year on the right foot with Catapult Learning’s COVID Recovery services. Catapult's established solutions for non-public schools as well as our COVID Recovery Program combine to meet the academic and social-emotional needs of students, families, and school communities. Best of all, our programs can be customized to fit the unique needs of your school.
Click here to learn more about EANS funding and how Catapult Learning can help you invest in your students.
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Implement Free School-Wide SEL Programming |
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With support from the state of Michigan, the most comprehensive mental health and prevention education program and social emotional learning (SEL) programming is now available to schools and districts at no cost! This highly customizable, scaffolded curriculum contains more than 1,000 lessons that address real issues that K-12 students encounter every day. Administrators can utilize free data reporting to see the real-time effectiveness of the SEL and mental health lessons.
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