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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...

Celebrating Your School's Cultural Diversity

If you want to know how to host a great Culture Night at your school, borrow a play from the playbook of Walt Disney Elementary in Mishawaka, Indiana. To cast...

Of Habits and Hoodies: Forming Saints for the 21st Century

"To be a Saint is to be myself." Thomas Merton (not yet a Saint) My favorite image of any Saint is a photograph I keep on my desk of St...

Celebrating Dia de los Muertos: A Melding of Indigenous and Catholic Traditions

For Catholic school teachers, celebrating Dia de los Muertos can be a magnificent way to encourage students to pray for and remember their deceased family and friends. It can also...

Integrating Pop Culture in the Classroom

A couple weeks ago, we were lucky enough to hear from Dr. Ernest Morrell, a professor of English Education at Columbia University's Teachers College, on how we can make education...

Don't Think You're a Catholic School Donor? Think Again

Like many people, I sometimes have trouble sleeping on airplanes. The best solution to this is some reading. Usually, after a few pages or so of an innocuous novel or...

What is 3-Sector Reform - and Why Should You Care?

We are all to some degree familiar with the phenomenon whereby a word or term is used so often that it ceases to have real meaning. If not, you need...

Go Cubs Go: What Catholic Schools Can Learn from the Rise of the Chicago Cubs

There are some things that are just distinctly October. Flannel shirts, pumpkin spiced lattes, the changing leaves . . . and the Chicago Cubs. What's that, you say? The Cubs...

Why Learning Engineering is Important, Even for First Graders

If asked to "draw an engineer," you might, perhaps, draw a man with glasses, sitting alone at his desk. If you did, your picture would match up with those drawn...

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Teaching Confidential: Adventures in the Pedagogical Underbelly

Happy Worship Wednesday!