Monday Mission Memo
Nov. 12, 2018
Interim Superintendent's Message
School Leaders of the Diocese of Cleveland,
It’s a big week for us at the OCFE as we look forward to gathering with many of you, our school leaders, this Wednesday through Friday at Kalahari. See below for some final reminders.
For those who attended the principal’s leadership conference at Kalahari a year ago, you may recall the opening session featured some fresh research from an NCEA project to examine marketing perceptions, especially of those who do NOT choose Catholic schools. The final report was recently made available (see pages 40-41 for summary & recommendations) at this link https://images.magnetmail.net/images/clients/NCEA1/attach/National_Market_Research.pdf Our own Brian Sinchak, president of Lakewood Catholic Academy who led the session last year, serves on the NCEA Advisory Council and was a reviewer for the report.
Speaking of marketing, we have set the initial meeting for our marketing task force for the morning of Nov 28 at Cathedral Square. If you have not been in communication but are still interested, please contact me.
I look forward to seeing you soon.
Yours in Christ,
Frank
Principal Leadership Conference is this week at Kalahari!
- When arriving at Kalahari go to conference center door B
- New principals and mentors who are attending the new principal luncheon, please note that it begins at 11:30 in the Acacia Hut.
- Registration for the conference will begin around 12:30 in Booth 8.
- Safety Works talk begins at 1:00 in Nile Ballroom.
- Hotel check-in is in Booth 6 in conference center from 2:00-5:00.
- Frank's State of the Schools talk begins at 2:30.
- If you aren't coming until Thursday, check in begins at 7:30 a.m. in Booth 8.
- Hotel check-in will be from 2:00-5:00 in conference area booth 6.
Questions? Email Dolores at dbruno@dioceseofcleveland.org
School Spotlight - St. Mary, Wooster
Refugee Simulation
Readers are Leaders
Get on Board Little Children!
School Spotlight - St. Angela Merici STREAM Night
Co-Principal Leadership
Hands-on Approach to STREAM
Volunteer Expertise: A Renewable Resource
School Spotlight - All Saints of St. John Vianney School
All Saints at All Saints
All Saints is a 2018 Purple Star School!
On this Veteran's Day Weekend, All Saints is proud to announce that it has been selected as a 2018 Purple Star School! All Saints does many service projects to honor and remember our military. One of their projects was to wash the tombstones of the military at the Mentor Cemetery.
Safety Day at All Saints!
Researched Based Intervention #3 -National Center on Intensive Intervention
The National Center on Intensive Intervention (https://intensiveintervention.org/) is a website that provides resources and information to meet the specific needs of students on Tier 3 of RtI. It includes guidance and tips for teachers providing RtI in the classroom, data gathering tools, and sample lessons and activities for intervention in literacy, mathematics and behavior needs. In addition, NCII’s website contains tools charts that serve as databases to assist educators in selecting appropriate academic and behavioral assessment tools and interventions that uphold high researched based standards while addressing targeted needs.
Lalanne Teachers in the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland
Continuing Education Option from NCEA
The National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA), Notre Dame of Maryland University (NDMU), and Virtual Education Software (VESi) have partnered to offer NCEA members and their staff online access to graduate credit courses for one low annual fee
Take up to 4 courses per year for the low annual fee of $125
Choose among courses for license renewal, salary advancement, and degree completion
All courses are laptop, tablet, and smartphone compatible
For more information, visit:
https://www.ncea.org/NCEA/Membership/Virtual_Education_Software_Course_Membership_Program.aspx
March 8 Professional Development Day
Please see the link below regarding the March 8 Professional Development Day.