Announcing Our New High School Textbooks!
Survey our new textbooks at the link in this post. Schedule a meeting with you and your staff to hear more about our new texts and supporting materials.
Reflect and Plan Direct Service Opportunities for Your Students
Reflect on what has worked and not worked for direct service student projects and brainstorm some new ideas.
The Importance of Dialogue in a Religion Classroom
Discussion among students is a way to help them become more attune to their own faith and the faith of others.
Looking for the Nones
Bishop Robert Barron delivered the keynote lecture at the Cultures of Formation conference hosted by the McGrath Institute for Church Life at Notre Dame. The lecture is just over one hour in length. It is worth your time to hear Bishop Barron…
Reflections on Witness: Learning to Tell the Stories of Grace that Illumine Our Lives by Leonard J. DeLorenzo
Catholic adolescents are no different than Catholic adults: Both groups of Catholics often find it difficult to tell their own personal stories of faiths. Leonard DeLorenzo has taught thousands of teens and young adults to think about and share…
Practical Principles and Other Resources for Catechetical Sunday 2017
Juliane Stanz and Tom East offer thirteen practical principles to guide accompaniment of youth and young adults as part of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops resources for Catechetical Sunday 2017. The full article introduces…
Disney’s Version of the Ave Maria
An interesting piece of information you may wish to share with your students is Walt Disney's inclusion of Schubert's classic Ave Maria in the full-length animated motion picture Fantasia.The idea of a popular, secular film containing…
Dialoguing Principles
Small group and full classroom discussions encourage sharing among your students. Though each lesson and activity uses slightly different dialogue techniques, some general methodological principles apply to all of them. The following principles,…
How Do Your Students Learn?
This interesting cartoon provides some food-for-thought on assessing the way students learn.
New Book for Catholic High School Theology Teachers
Room 24: Adventures of a New Evangelist chronicles the story of a freshman theology teacher at a Catholic high school in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Brimming with good humor and constant hope, the book demonstrates the practical side of…