NCEA Briefs: Our Legacy and Our Future

A Framework for Serving English Learners in Catholic Schools
A Framework for Serving English Learners in Catholic Schools From the English Language Learners sub-series of the Exceptional Learners Series (ELS). In order to better understand English learners and learn how to apply learning techniques to their work, it is important to know that at the core of this is the belief that to serve is deeply rooted in the tradition of Catholic schooling in America. How can teachers identify English learner students in their classrooms? What methods of teaching do we need to apply to an English learner for them to comprehend classwork? In this brief teachers will learn about stages of seconf language acquistion, instructing content and language simultaneously.

NCEA Briefs: 10 Days to Becoming a Better Educator of English Learners

This book is an excellent step-by-step tool for improving your instruction of culturally and linguistically diverse learners in a way that is intentional, pertinent, and manageable. The text addresses pedagogical approaches, instructional strategies, relevant research-based theory and the desire to know our students more fully, believing that teachers are eager to see their ELs succeed, the book offers a multitude of helpful hints organized into 10 days of study. Welcome to 10 days of growth!

Serving English Learners: A Diocesan Handbook for K–12

In our encounters of service with those students, so richly blessed with the gifts of bilingualism and cultural diversity, our Catholic Schools have the opportunity to embrace, educate, and empower students, families, and communities. Helping our English learners succeed is our vocation as educators in Catholic schools, and the success of these students is both our distinguished legacy and our bright future.

The Madrinas Model

A Program Guide to Enroll and Engage Latino Families in Your Catholic School

The Madrinas Model is designed to increase Latino enrollment by creating and strengthening the connection between Latino families and the school, while fostering a culture of support for children’s academic education and spiritual formation. The model employs a grassroots marketing approach in which madrinas connect Latino families to a strong neighborhood Catholic school. By spreading the good news of Catholic education and its impact on the educational and personal successes of Latino children in America, madrinas become ambassadors who can create a positive ripple effect for the school within the Latino community.

A Catholic School Principal's Guide

30 Proven Strategies to Serve the Latino Community and Increase Enrollment in Catholic Schools

Latinos represent the largest and youngest ethnic minority population in the U.S., yet only 4% of Latino Catholic children are enrolled in Catholic schools. The present opportunity to more effectively empower Latino families through Catholic education represents an exciting new chapter in the narrative of American Catholic schools, and there is arguably no factor more critical to the development and implementation of an effective Latino outreach plan than the school leader. We hope that this user-friendly guide, which is a compilation of tangible ideas and concrete strategies compiled from Catholic school principals who have been successful in this endeavor, provides some helpful suggestions as you work to more fully engage Latino families in your Catholic schools.

Renewing Our Greatest and Best Inheritance

In 2013, the USCCB's Committee on Catholic Education requested ACE's support to engage bishops on the singular role that K-12 Catholic schools play in forming children in the faith, serving the common good, and bringing the joy of the Gospel to communities in need. Renewing Our Greatest and Best Inheritance is one of the publications that resulted from this partnership and offers an overview of the manifold benefits that Catholic schools provide marginalized children and families, as well as a brief explanation of the Church's position on and participation in parental choice programs. 

To Nurture the Soul of a Nation

Latino Families, Catholic Schools, and Educational Opportunity

The Notre Dame Task Force Report, To Nurture the Soul of a Nation, published on December 12, 2009, outlines a road map for making a high-quality Catholic education accessible to as many Latino families as possible, while simultaneously revitalizing American Catholic schools. The strategy proposed by the task force relies on a combination of developing demand, building capacity, and transforming institutions to fill empty seats, increase capacity in existing schools, reopen closed schools, and build new Catholic schools in areas that have seen the greatest growth in the Latino population.