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Hosted by the Acosta Institute, the International Healing-Centered Education Conference is being held virtually on October 6-8, 2023. Building on the success of our previous Healing-Centered Education Summits, this gathering aims to continue exploring and advancing the emerging restorative and...

Teacher friends, we need to be like coals of fire! Together we glow, but separate, we grow cold. Nobody understands what we’re going through in the building better than another teacher. Iron sharpens iron! One conversation with the teacher down the hall is both spiritual and professional development...

I am the proud father of a two year old French Bulldog named Goblin. Goblin is like the mayor of Brooklyn. Everybody in the street presses the pause button on their lives to say hello to our little guy. I have met so many people on our walks around Bed-Stuy. I took him to a Jazz concert with another...

The Spirit of God is at work in the lives of our students, and we cannot always see that work. If we did, we would probably give ourselves the credit. We can only be grateful that we had a small role to play in their life stories. We’re just a speck in God’s kaleidoscopic vision for that child, but...

We are anointed, and everybody in the building is better precisely because we are in there, molding and shaping hearts and minds, even as we are molded and remolded in the image of our Lord. Overwhelm your school community with your awesome. . My favorite moment in Star Wars is when Luke Skywalker...

I left Catholic Education two years ago, but the purpose-driven undercurrent of this career we chose is almost impossible to shake. The principles of Catholic Social Teaching arrested me; the need for people who call on the name of God for the ministry of teaching is great, and I would like to use...

Following the first , second and third of four blogs in this series, I introduced our 4th/5th grade expedition , “Making Hope and History Rhyme: Words That Will Echo Forevermore,” which we hope you will read to gain a comprehensive view of the expedition unit. Case Study #4: Martin’s Big Words...

Case Study #3: Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou Following the first and second of four blogs in this series, I introduced our 4th/5th grade expedition , “Making Hope and History Rhyme: Words That Will Echo Forevermore,” which we hope you will read to gain a comprehensive view of the expedition unit...

In the first of four blogs in this series, I introduced our 4th/5th grade expedition , “Making Hope and History Rhyme: Words That Will Echo Forevermore,” which we hope you will read to gain a comprehensive view of the expedition unit. Overview : Our twelve week expedition explores the history of the...