Our society measures people. How would you like to be measured? Bank balance? Titles? Weight? What measures are appropriate for students in Catholic school? While academic measures are necessary, there […]
Teachers have an awesome responsibility for student safety. There are the simple safety rules you remind them of: don’t run; obey playground regulations; wear proper equipment for outdoor activities and […]
Whatever grade you teach, you may have a student that you feel you never quite teach. You notice the child’s constant distracted look or inattentiveness as you present a concept. […]
It sounds so simple: “Line up your priorities!” As if your priorities will somehow get in line! Part of the issue is that, of course, the priorities are not just “yours”
The Latin term tabula rasa means “scraped slate” or blank slate. We know that no child is a blank slate in terms of their minds. But there is another kind of blank slate that can be a gift to those who are granted it.
The teacher was making a point while correcting a child by helping him recall that God is everywhere. The teacher asked the child, “Where is God?” The child was silent, so the teacher asked again, “Where is God?”
Some days, from the time the students arrive until they leave, there is nothing that seems vocation-like in our work. Ordination, religious life, marriage – clearly those are calls from God.
It was time for breaking open the word with the little children during Sunday Mass. Young minds eagerly listened to the account of Jesus calling the twelve apostles and…
