May 21, 2022 Subways Series: Super Readers (Part 2 of 2) First Fridays at Incarnation School O’Shaughnessy Fellows Dave Robles (5th, St. Charles Borromeo, New York City), Francesca Ciaramitaro (ELA MS, Incarnation School, New York City), and Christine Cherichella (3rd, P.S.
May 18, 2022 Macaluso wins Joyce teaching award Dr. Mike Macaluso—a Fellow within the Institute for Educational Initiatives and faculty member in the Education, Schooling, and Society program and the Alliance for Catholic Education – has received a Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Dr.
April 4, 2022 Subway Series: Blogging from the A Train (Part 1 of 2) Blogging From the A Train During our last O’Shaughnessy All Fellows meeting, Francesca Ciaramitaro (FC) suggested an entirely new format for our blog. Rather than a traditional written blog, she suggested interviews among Fellows.
March 14, 2022 The Core Commitments of Literacy Educators (4 of 4) Throughout this series, we have focused on key areas for leading literacy in K-8 Catholic schools. We first explored developing a school-wide vision for literacy instruction. Next we considered essential content for literacy learning.
February 21, 2022 Artists are Guardians of the Human Spirit: Poetry as Tool to Support Spiritual Development in Teachers and Students (2 of 2) Brandon “B-Mike” Odums “Artists are Guardians of the Human Spirit” - Anna Deveare Smith In the first blog, we looked at the ways we understand spirituality in education and why that may be helpful in these times for teachers and students.
February 14, 2022 Essential Structures for Literacy (3 of 4) In the last blog post, we focused on the essential content for literacy instruction: phonics and phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and high level talk and writing about text.
February 7, 2022 To Not Look Away: Thinking through the Purpose & Practice of Spirituality in Education (1 of 2) (Nhat Hanh, 2013) “We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.” Thich Nhat Hanh It’s February, 2022, and it seems there are a million reasons to feel hopeless.
January 28, 2022 Ernest Morrell elected to the National Academy of Education Ernest Morrell, the associate dean for the humanities and equity in the University of Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters and the director of the Center for Literacy Education, has been elected to the National Academy of Education. The Academy advances high-quality research that improves educa
January 11, 2022 Social Emotional Development, Young Children, and Literacy I struggle to answer the question - “what do you do for a living?” The easy response is that I am a teacher, but that never seems to capture the real essence of what my day to day experience is.
December 1, 2021 Inaugural Alexandria Award Winner Announced The Center for Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame has presented its inaugural Alexandria Award to “When Stars are Scattered,” a graphic novel by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed. The Alexandria Award recognizes a middle grade or young adult book that advances Gospel values through
