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Tuesday Tasks Your weekly update from the Catholic Schools Office March 8, 2022

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New Leadership Announcements After an extensive search, I am pleased to announce Dr. Karen Hopson has accepted the position of Associate Superintendent for the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph beginning July 1, 2022. Currently, Dr. Hopson serves as principal of Borromeo Academy in Gladstone. She brings with her over 30 years of experience in education, with more than 20 of those years in Catholic education. Dr. Hopson has served as both a Catholic school elementary principal and high school principal. Her experience with curriculum development and implementation, assessment, and accreditation will support the mission of the Catholic School Office in providing guidance and support to our schools. Special thanks to Father Ken Riley, Joe Monachino, Catherine Neumayr, Mary Kallman, and Nicolette Gibson for their time and insight while serving on the hiring committee for Associate Superintendent. Please join me in welcoming Dr. Hopson to her new position.  Congratulations to Mrs. Amy Hogan for being named the new principal at St. Therese Catholic School. Mrs. Hogan has several years of Catholic school leadership to her new position from having served as principal at St. Gabriel Catholic School in the northland. Please join me in welcoming Mrs. Hogan to her new position. ~ Dr. Kroh

Faith Formation Day – Friday, March 11th Bishop Johnston will be speaking on the topic of Christian Anthropology. This event is for the personal faith formation of school leaders and teachers. We will gather in the church at St. Therese Parish in Parkville, MO and begin with Mass at 8:30. Please remember that this is a day with the Bishop. Please remind your staff to dress appropriately! 8:00-8:30           Arrival 8:30-9:30           Mass with Bishop Johnston 9:30-11:30        Bishop Johnston presents Each school will plan for the remainder of the day.

Lenten Project This Easter season the Schools Office would like to join with our schools in a symbolic prayer for peace. Please click here for more information. All schools are asked to participate.

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Ruah Woods – Theology of the Body Curriculum Just a reminder, Bishop Johnston has asked ALL schools in our Diocese to adopt the Ruah Woods – Theology of the Body curriculum K-12 beginning the 2022-23 school year. The Ruah Woods – Theology of the Body curriculum will supplement your religion curriculum. This resource does not replace the current religion curriculum for any grade level. For more information about the curriculum and to order your school’s materials go to www.RuahWoodsPress.com. REVEALED                         K-5 curriculum ROOTED                            6-8 curriculum Called to be More           High School

Spring Benchmark Assessments Thank you to all the schools that have already implemented the IOWAflex to use for benchmark assessments. I appreciate all the positive feedback from both teachers and administrators. The IOWAflex benchmark assessments will be a critical piece of a streamlined assessment process we will all begin next fall in grades 3-8.  We will end each school year with the summative IOWA assessment.  Since we are moving toward a streamlined assessment process the spring benchmark assessments, which are scheduled to take place after the IOWA Assessments are canceled this year.

All elementary schools will begin the new assessment process in the fall of 2022.  Please call Dr. Kroh if you have any questions.

Free Classroom/Office Furniture The old Southwest High School has become a landing area for unwanted furniture from the Kansas City Missouri School District. This furniture has been offered to us for any of our schools. Pictures of some of the things that are available can be found in this link. Please contact Kerry if you are interested and would like contact information. You will need to be responsible for picking up the furniture at the Southwest High School building.

Synod on Synodality Please remember that during our meeting on December 2nd we were modeling the process you will use to meet with your faculty members. In your faculty meeting, you will be modeling what middle school and high school teachers should be doing with their students. Grades 6-12 are expected to participate in the Synod process. The Listening and Discernment sessions must be completed by April 7,2022.     The Bishop’s video is on the public Synod page: https://kcsjcatholic.org/synod2021-2023/ (it works well just played directly from here)   The Toolkit for your Synod meetings and the link to the reporting document can be found at the following website:   Toolkit: https://kcsjcatholic.org/synod2021-2023/team/ Password: Mt7:14

Prospective Teacher Resumes Additional resumes have been uploaded to the goggle folder "Career Fair Resumes" and can be found on the google drive using this link.

Meeting Reminders

All Schools with Bishop Johnston March 11 - 8:30 am - St. Therese Church CSLT March 14 - 1:00 pm - CANCELLED Early Ed April 12 - 1:30 pm - Chancery Glennon Room

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