From the Field

Chad Barwick

Chad Barwick (featured here with his students and Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, CSC) is principal at St. Anthony de Padua Catholic School in South Bend, Indiana, and feels his participation in the Remick Leadership Program has changed his spiritual and leadership DNA. The lessons learned and relationships built in ACE were a solid foundation for the work of being principal of a preK-8 school, with its myriad roles and challenges. He said St. Anthony welcomed him with open arms and he feels blessed to be part of the parish community.

“St. Anthony is a great parish as it places its school at its heart. I am thrilled to help provide a wonderful education rooted in Christ to the more than 380 students we serve. As we grow as a school and as a church, we hope to ‘open wide’ our doors to invite all those who seek a school with the Eucharist at the center of all that we do.”

Meghan Weyland

“The faculty, students, and families believe Nativity is a privilege, and they participate in the community to fully achieve their God given dignity and gifts,” says Meghan Weyland, Principal of Nativity Academy at St. Boniface in Louisville, KY. Meghan is a graduate of ACE Service through Teaching and a current member of the Remick Leadership Program.

“Nativity Academy is an inspiring place to serve as it is the very heart of the original mission of Catholic schools in the United States: providing a Catholic education for families struggling to make a better life for themselves,” she offers. Nativity Academy at St. Boniface is a Catholic middle school located in the Archdiocese of Louisville and belongs to the NativityMiguel Network. Religious congregations that serve as corporate members of the board of directors are the Ursuline Sisters and Xaverian Brothers. Nativity Academy is a non-tuition driven Catholic school that serves students from low-income families of Metro Louisville, with the goal that students will be successful in and graduate from college prep schools and post-secondary education. Together with its mission driven faculty and a faith-based curriculum, Nativity utilizes the extended day/year model which keeps students at school until 5:45pm 4 days a week and attending classes for 2 weeks in the summer. Families pay $20 per month in tuition and the school is funded almost entirely by private donations.