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Teaching Confidential: Adventures in the Pedagogical Underbelly

In 2000, chef and television star Anthony Bourdain’s first book, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, was published and beloved by many, topping the New York Times’ nonfiction bestseller...

Molly Schroeder class

Happy Worship Wednesday!

“Happy Worship Wednesday!” the words I begin MOST Wednesdays with (barring any technical difficulties) before I play a few minutes of Gospel or worship music. As the song starts, my...

Mercy and Compassion: Fr. Joe Corpora Reflects on His Papal Appointment

In early January, we announced the exciting news that our own Fr. Joe Corpora received an invitation from Pope Francis to serve this Jubilee Year of Mercy in a special...

Every Student Succeeds Act: English Language Learning Children Not Left Behind

English learners (ELs) are the fastest growing population in U.S. schools. By 2025, nearly 1 in 4 US school children will be an EL. While their numbers grow, their performance...

Why Students Need a Third Language

I had a difficult choice: Spanish, French, or Latin. Those were my choices for my high school's second language requirement. If I had to make the choice in 2016, I...

A Place for Mercy in Our Schools

In our broken world, Pope Francis consistently lights flames of hope and love in the hearts of others, making him one of greatest transformational leaders of our day. And like...

Catholic Schools Enable Teachers, Students to Feel "Fully Alive"

I am a product of public schools from pre-school clear through university, even teaching in a massive public high school as a student teacher. The eighteen-year experience was overwhelmingly positive...

Come and See: Catholic Schools Plant Seeds for Vocations

I discovered my vocation to be a priest in Catholic schools. Surely, the seed was planted by the diocesan priests and IHM sisters who taught me at St. Pius X...

Why I Sent My Protestant Son to a Catholic School

"We don't teach them because they're Catholic but because we are Catholic." - Cardinal James Hickey, Washington, DC This quote is a favorite of mine. Education Next dubbed it "a...

Catholic Schools Debunk the Myth of Unteachability

Pens need to be vertical. Every teacher knows that. When a student's wrist goes limp and his pen falls to the desk, it's trouble. It's the sign of despair, the...

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Teaching Confidential: Adventures in the Pedagogical Underbelly

Happy Worship Wednesday!