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Help us celebrate 50 years! Tell us how faith-based education and MANS has impacted you by completing this brief survey. We will use the survey results to help form our communications over the coming year.

The MANS Education Conference and Expo brings together school leaders, teachers, and staff from member schools across the state. Enjoy two days of professional development, sharing with colleagues, and the unique opportunity for fellowship with the Catholic, Lutheran Schools - Missouri Synod, and Christian Schools International communities in Michigan.

Make the most of your experience at the 2022 MANS Education Conference & Expo by participating in some of our educational excursions to sites around the city of Lansing. Excursions are $25.00 and include lunch. Click here to see a description of the excursions.

Registration for Summer Connect gives you access to these content experts through March 2023. Participate when you can or watch a session multiple times. Registration is $125.00 and includes access to the virtual platform through March 2023. State Continuing Education Clock Hours will be provided.

Celebrate and invest in your front line staff this month by registering your Creating Pathways. This event, geared towards your school's most important ambassador, school secretaries and administrative assistants, is back in 2022! Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their critical role in the school and to develop skills to help them succeed.

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! 

Faith-based Office Professional Award - LAST CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Principals and school boards are invited to nominate your outstanding administrative assistant for the Michigan Association of Non-public Schools (MANS) Faith-Based Office Professional Award. This award recognizes school office professionals who are faith-filled ambassadors for their schools, create efficiencies that streamline daily tasks, understand their broader ministry, have a willingness to take on new challenges and tasks, and develop respectful relationships with parents, students, and staff.

Nominations are peer-reviewed, and awardees will be recognized at the 2022 Creating Pathways Toward School Success retreat. Recipients of the award will receive complimentary registration for the retreat in recognition of their achievement. The deadline for 2022 nominations is July 15, 2022.

On June 25, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Keep Kids Fed Act. This law extends critical school meal waivers to address childhood hunger in the summer months and expands funding for meals during the 2022-2023 school year. A special thank you to U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow for her efforts to bring this to fruition.

The June 2022 Child Nutrition Programs (CNP) Bulletin No. 42 was released this week. Click to link below to see the latest updates for CNP.

Join the more than 160 schools who provided State Continuous Education Clock Hours (SCECHs) to staff through the MANS SCECH program. Before you enjoy a bit of downtime this summer, don't forget to complete the Intent to Participate form link below.

Want to participate in 2022-2023 SCECH Processing? Please complete this Intent to Participate form and your school will be provided your custom Google folder and spreadsheet. Instructions on this process will be delivered via email early in the 2022-23 school year.

Thank you all for your hard work in 2021-2022 recording your educators well-deserved SCECHs!

Signatures continue to be collected for a few more weeks, at which time it is expected that there will be enough extra signatures to survive any challenges.

If you still have petition signatures to turn in, please send them to:

Please remember:

Thank you for your excellent work on this important effort.

Round 3 applications are currently being reviewed. You should receive either an approval of your application or a request to make adjustments sometime over the next several days.

MDE did not want to overlap the two funding sources (EANS I and II) and is anticipating a mid July opening of the EANS II process. 

During Logos workshops, instructors do or see strategies and activities included in the set of Logos: Foundations for Literacy materials. These activities are designed to help students build the foundations needed for future reading and writing skills: alphabet and letter knowledge, phoneme awareness, handwriting, and basic, beginning reading and writing skills. In Logos workshops, teachers will also learn an approach to introducing students to the “code” of English, a specific process for using decodable books with students, and to organizing elementary school literacy blocks.

During a Word Revelation workshop, participants complete a sampling of the 36 Word Revelation activities, enough so that they will be able to complete the remaining activities in the future. The activities cover 8 main concepts about the patterns of written English.

In February 2022, the CISA School Safety Task Force released the K-12 School Security Guide Suite, a set of products designed to inform safety and physical security planning for the range of kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) schools across the United States. Developed in partnership with the RAND Corporation, the K-12 School Security Guide Suite is comprised of the CISA K-12 School Security Guide (3rd Edition) and accompanying School Security Assessment Tool (SSAT).

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.

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.

You can find your local Meemic Agent’s contact information at Meemic.com/Agent or send an inquiry email to Appreciation@Meemic.com with your school’s contact information. 

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:

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.

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.