Category Archives: Curriculum and Instruction

On the morning of October 22nd, my flock of Fourth graders arrived early to mass. Clipboards in hand, they had come to answer a challenging question: Using COVID guidelines for seating, how many students can sit in the pews at Sacred Heart Church? In order to complete this task, students needed to be able toContinue reading “Creating Watercolored Area Models of our Church”

This past Spring, I met with my Instructional Coach for many weeks to discuss our school’s current Socio-Emotional Curriculum. Before and during our meetings, we’d watch videos, recording our own notes, and discussing our most important takeaways. As we reviewed more of the curriculum, I shared that I was growing concerned that aspects of theContinue reading “Teaching Students Biblical Identity and Community”

From “Experiment” to Two Grade Levels of Inquiry Last year, my students did an abundance of research on topics of their own choosing, through Inquiry Projects. My initial goal in developing the Inquiry Projects was to give students’ something other than COVID to define and brighten their experience of distance learning. Throughout the year, theContinue reading “May/June Inquiry Projects: Differentiating to Supporting All Students”

As a Protestant teaching in a Catholic education setting, I led students last May into a topic that should be valuable to Christians of all denominations: a historical understanding of Mary. While Mary is widely known as the mother of Jesus and as a symbol of someone who radically trusted God, most people have littleContinue reading “Teaching Unconditional Surrender: Worshipping God through Mary’s historical context and Magnificat Prayer”