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Catholic Schools

November 4, 2022

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Our prayer for this week is the Litany of Saints.

All you holy men and women, pray for us.

Litany of the Saints
Resources

Next editions of the Office of Catholic Schools Newsletter:


November 4

November 18

Look for topics in previous editions:
Index of Past Topics
Archive of Superintendent’s emails:
Archived emails
Calendar Items
(See details in articles below)


Nov. 7: DASA Central Meeting

Nov. 9-10 : 8th Grade Vocations Fair

    (System Schools only)

Nov. 13: Discover Catholic Schools Week begins

Nov. 14: New Administrator Workshop

Nov. 14: DASA North & Northeast Meeting

Nov 17: School Success Summit (sign up here)

Nov. 17: DASA Southeast Meeting

Nov. 23: DASA Executive Meeting

Nov. 27: Advent begins

Dec. 1:  Principal & President Luncheon with Bishop Ricken

2022-23 Schools Calendar
Important Dates for Private School Choice Programs
New Items

Discover Catholic Schools Week is a great time to kick off your enrollment season. We encourage schools to host an Open House, send out information about your school, and share the great things happening in your buildings.


This article shares good news about Catholic schools across the nation. Below are some ideas you might want to consider. More resources can be found on the NCEA website.


Discover Catholic Schools Week (November 13 - November 19)

  • Sunday: Discover Your Parish Family
  • Monday: Discover Catholic School Students
  • Tuesday: Discover Catholic School Parents
  • Wednesday: Discover Catholic School Educators
  • Thursday: Celebrating the Faith-Based Community
  • Friday: Celebrating Catholic School Donors
  • Saturday: Celebrating Catholic School Alumni

URGENT DPI WPCP Audit

Employee Background Checks 

(from Todd’s e-mail 11-2-22) 


To assist the Office of Safe Environment collaborate with your audits for the DPI Wisconsin Parental Choice Program Audit, please complete the spreadsheet below and return it to me no later than Monday, November 7, 2022.  Include all new employees that you have hired and appear on your payroll reports since July 1, 2022.  If you are a principal at a System school, please forward this email to your Human Resources (HR) office to complete this task.   


WPCP Audit - Background Check Employee List Spreadsheet: click here.



Reports for Auditors


Staff security lists were sent directly to the auditors for CLA and Hawkins Ash

Run or confirm with IThelpdesk@gbdioc.org (Becky) that a WiseID person Upload has been down for this school year. Logon to Secure Home to verify your information/errors/issues.

https://dpi.wi.gov/wise/wisehome-info


WISEDATA Snapshot December 6th 2022

 https://dpi.wi.gov/wisedata/schools/snapshot-prep

  1. Snapshot will go to 2021-22 Year End Completion data (used to calculate Graduation Rates, Dropout Rates, and Chronic Absenteeism)

Please mark your calendar for December 1 for the Principal/President Lunch with Bishop Ricken. More details for the event will be included in our next newsletter.


After lunch, there will be a meeting. There will be no DASA meetings in December.

Are you still trying to fill job positions?

Do you have a great candidate you can share with another school?

WECAN Posts

Please remove all your WECAN posts that have been filled by the end of November so that we have a good understanding of where our vacancies remain. 


Job Opportunities (Needs)

  • Holy Trinity (Casco)
  • Kindergarten (FT)
  • 5th/6th/7th (FT or PT)
  • Sacred Heart (Shawano)
  • Music teacher (PT)
  • Roncalli HS (Manitowoc)
  • Art teacher
Curriculum Corner

Surveys for Principals 


Please take a few minutes to complete the three surveys below. Your answers will help drive our DASA discussions.

MAP Assessment
Curriculum Standards
Renaissance Resources

REMINDER: PowerSchool Reporting


A committee met in June to help rename and organize the many System reports found in PowerSchool. These are continuing to be worked on however, all reports will be renamed to help categorize reports and hopefully make it easier to find. The group decided on a format of:


System-school-category-name-language


Examples:

XCS - XHS - Grades - Transcript - 2018

LA-HS-ATT-attendance report

GRACE - All - Emergency Form (Spa)

STAA-Grades-Transcript 2020

RON HS Transcript-2020


Looking for standardized reports such as anything that started with Universal?

You will be able to find these reports under DIOC


Examples:

DIOC-REG-Registration/Emergency Record

DIOC-ATT-Attendance Report 9 Quarters (current year)

DIOC-Grades-Transcript: Elem Transcript

DIOC-PW-Password Letter- without student access

DIOC-Labels-To Parent of Mailing Labels (5160)



We have about 1000 reports in PowerSchool so this work will continue throughout the summer. I hope that everyone will have an easier time working with these reports going forward. Please reach out with any questions you have in finding the reports you have been using in the past. If you are the owner of School reports please reach out for further details on the guidelines being used to rename reports.


Worth Repeating

From the GB Vocations Office


As you help your students to grow and nurture the gift of faith that God has placed in their hearts, we know that questions about their futures arise. Our wonderful Catholic schools help them to see that future with the eyes of faith and always encourage them to ask what God has in mind for their lives. Our office is always here to help you in walking with your students to discern the voice of the Father and the movement of the Holy Spirit in their lives. We support you, firstly in our constant prayers for you, and secondly, we would love to be on your campus and with your students to speak more deeply into the areas of vocation, discernment, prayer, and the joy of a life lived with the Lord. If you would like to invite us to speak to a classroom, a few students, or even the entire student body, please do feel free to reach out to us. You can contact us via email/phone: https://gbvocations.org/meet-the-team, or by filling out the speaking request form: https://gbvocations.org/speaking-request​. Thank you for all that you do!

- The GB Vocations Office


UPCOMING VOCATIONS EVENTS

Vocations Mass (for 8th graders in System Schools ) - See email from Lori Paul

  • November 9 (All System Schools except GRACE)
  • November 10 (GRACE ONLY)

Mental Health Webinar Series

Addressing key mental health issues our students are facing


For Catholic school teachers, principals, guidance counselors, campus ministers, catehetical leaders, catechists, youth ministers; all are welcome to these quarterly, free webinars hosted by the Diocese of Green Bay Catholic Charities mental health staff.


Topics and dates:

  1. How Faith Affects Mental Health (Oct. 18)
  2. Understanding Harm Reduction Strategies (Dec. 13)
  3. Mental Health & the Hispanic Community (Feb. 7)
  4. Signs of Sex Trafficking (Apr. 4) 


All webinars will be at 10:30am conducted via Zoom. Invitations and links will be in future newsletters. Please direct any questions to: Lori Paul, Catholic Charities 920.272.8318.

Grant Window Opens at

Catholic Foundation


The Catholic Foundation is pleased to announce it is accepting grant applications. 


Grants awarded by the Catholic Foundation benefit Catholic schools, parishes, and ministries in our Diocese. There are multiple grant opportunities. Grant funding generally focuses on programming and training. Schools have requested and received funding for tuition assistance, sponsoring speakers, or

special events. If there is something your school would really like to try, consider looking into grant funding to help. Requests for books and capital items are not generally accepted.


Grant applications need to be submitted prior to December 1, 2022 to be considered.


To apply for a 2022-2023 grant please go to: Grant applications


If you received a grant in 2021-2022, please complete your grant report by December 1.


If you have questions about what grant(s) to apply for, questions about grant reports or if your 2021- 2022 grant project/ program occurs after December 1st, please contact Nicole Skarda at 920-272-8292 or email catholicfoundation@gbdioc.org.

School Choice Training


The Choice Team will again be offering virtual training sessions geared towards new schools to the Choice Program for the 2022-23 school year. As we did last year, we would like to extend this opportunity to existing schools in the Choice Program who are interested in a refresher related to program requirements (see topics below). New Choice Administrators and Designees may find these training sessions particularly helpful. The dates and topics covered can be found below. The trainings will be offered via Microsoft Teams; the link to each training can be found below as well. Please note these trainings are not mandatory but encouraged.  


All times are 3:30 - 4:30 on the dates listed below:

 

School Choice November


November 1

  • Schools must revise their annual budget prepared by June 30, if the actual third Friday Choice or all student enrollment varies by 20% or 20 students, whichever is less. If the school is required to update the budget, the budget must reflect the revenues resulting from the school’s actual third Friday in September enrollment, along with related required budget changes. These schools must retain the revised budget and cash flow report on file at the school for auditor review as part of Page 9 of 17 the Fiscal & Internal Control Practices Report (see Training 6-3: School Budget on the On Demand Training webpage). 

After Report Card Publication by the DPI

  • Choice schools that have a school website are required to post the school’s most recent report card to the school’s website home page within 30 days after the DPI publishes the report cards. Choice schools must prominently link, from the school’s home page, the school’s most recent report card.
  • Annually (may occur in a different month), Choice schools must provide to the parent or guardian of each student enrolled in or attending the school a copy of:
  • The school’s accountability report (complete report card, detailed version); and simultaneously,
  • A list of the educational options available to children who reside in the pupil’s resident school district, which must include public schools, private schools participating in a parental choice program, charter schools, virtual schools, full−time open enrollment, youth options, course options and options for pupils enrolled in a home−based private educational program. See DPI’s notification requirement webpage for additional information. 

By the End of November

  • The DPI remits, by direct deposit, the November state aid payments to eligible schools based on each school’s third Friday in September Count Report and Summer School Count Report (see Training 9-1: Payment Process, Pupil Count Report & Audit Overview on the On Demand Training webpage and the Choice Program Payments - Frequently Asked Questions webpage).
  • The DPI provides the 2023-24 school registration materials to schools. Information on the school registration materials will be available on the School Registration webpage (see Training 2-1: School Registration Process Overview on the On Demand Training webpage). 
  • DPI sends out the November state aid payments to eligible SNSP schools based on each school’s 3rd Friday in September Pupil Count Report and Summer School Count Report, if applicable. 


Looking for a Service Project in the GB Area?

Operation Turkey Bag!


Help us deliver a little love to folks who have to work on Thanksgiving by cooking, packing and/or delivering special Thanksgiving Turkey Sandwich sack lunches in the Green Bay Area! 


For a description of the volunteer opportunities, please visit this webpage which includes details and sign-up instructions.

2023 Annual Essay/Art Contest

 Theme:  The Holy Family


Three artwork winners from each age group, K-8, will be chosen by a diocesan panel of judges. This winning artwork will be sent to the Missionary Childhood Association National Christmas Artwork Contest. 24 national winners will be selected by MCA and this winning art will appear as e-greeting 2023 Christmas cards at www.missio.org/resources and winners are celebrated in December. 


All winners will receive a commemorative plaque. One prize winners’ art will become the official Christmas card for the National Director, Monsignor Kieran E. Harrington of the Pontifical Mission Society in the United States.

Details &  Entry Form

In partnership with World Mission Services, The Compass presents its annual Christmas essay/art contest this year. 

More . . .
NCEA Newlsetter Link
Click on icon below to read the latest issue of Catholic School Matters Newsletter from NCEA and Dr. Tim Uhl.
Full Education Policy Manual for SY 2022-2023

Office of Catholic Schools

Questions? Contact us at education@gbdioc.org or (920) 272-8273.
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