Toolkit
Greeley Center Toolkit
Growing with Greeley provides professional learning resources and opportunities for educators. The professional learning may be offered through a podcast, live online discussions, PDF resources, or pre-recorded webinars. The goal of Growing with Greeley is to support Catholic school educators with tools to improve their teaching and leadership.
Creating a Classroom Culture through Literacy Webinar
- Ensuring a Place at the Table: Service Students with Disabilities in Catholic Schools (book)
- Called to Community: Implementing PLCs in Catholic Schools (book)
- Exceptional Learners in Catholic Schools: The Results of the Benchmarking Survey 2017 (book)
- NCEA Briefs: Core Reading Instruction (book)
- Response to Intervention: A Blueprint for Catholic Schools (book)
- Universal Design for Learning: Getting Started with Backward Design (book)
The National Standards and Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools describes how the most mission-driven, program effective, well managed, and responsibly governed Catholic schools operate. They are school effectiveness standards rather than curriculum content standards, although they support rigorous curriculum development aligned to Gospel values and standards.
Download the 2nd edition of standards for free HERE.
View and Download the Rubrics HERE.
Purchase the book from NCEA HERE.
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- A Systems Approach to Developing Leadership Paths for Catholic Schools
- A Time to Renew - A synthesis of the Ignatian Roundtable Discussions
- Teacher Leadership: Leading Side by Side
- The Power of Collaborative Networks to Support Catholic School Inclusion
- Exceptional Learners White Paper One Spirit, One Body
- Ignatian Leadership Inventory
- Leading with Hope
Sullivan, D., & Pena, J. (2019) The NSBECS: The Foundation for Effective Catholic Principal Preparation. Journal of Catholic Education, 22 (1).
Neugebauer, S. & Lia, M. (2018) Relating, Bridging, and Building Knowledge: Improving Students’ Disciplinary Reading Motivation. Literacy Today, 35 (4).
Philippe, D., Hernandez-Melis, C., Fenning, P., Sears, K, Wesley, E., Lawrence, E., Boyle, M. (2017) A Content Analysis of Catholic School Written Discipline Policies. Journal of Catholic Education, 21(1).
Boyle, M. (2017) Supporting Students with Disabilities in Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools: A Catholic Higher Education Perspective. Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities.
Boyle, M. & Dosen, A. (2017) Preparing Seminarians to Work with Catholic Schools: A Content Analysis of the Curriculum. Journal of Catholic Education. 20 (2).
Lia, M. (2016) Using An Observation Coaching Checklist to Provide Feedback to Teachers. Journal of Catholic Education, 20 (1).
Morten, S. D., & Lawler, G. A. (2016) A Standards-based Approach to Catholic Principal Preparation: A Case Study. Journal of Catholic Education, 19 (3).
Boyle, M. J., & Hernandez, C. M. (2016) An Investigation of the Attitudes of Catholic School Principals towards the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities. Journal of Catholic Education, 20 (1)
Boyle, M. (2016) Introduction to the Focus Section: Preparing Leaders in Light of the Standards. Journal of Catholic Education, 19 (3).
Boyle, M., Haller, A., & Hunt, E. (2016) The Leadership Challenge: Preparing and Developing Catholic School Principals. Journal of Catholic Education. 19 (3)
Boyle, M. (2010) Developing and sustaining leaders for Catholic Schools: A summary of the conference proceedings of the second Catholic Higher Education Collaborative conference. Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice. 14 (1)
PRAYERS
(click to download for free)
- God's Children
- Growth
- Inclusion
- Leadership
- American Novena
- Catholic Schools Week 2021 prayer written by Lee Hubbell
- God Knows You, God Loves You (based on Fr. Mike Schmitz's keynote at NCEA 2021)
- Pentecost "May we come to trust the Word of God..."
- Summer Prayer
- Back to School Prayer
INFOGRAPHICS
(click to download for free)
- 3 Alternatives to Round Robin Reading
- 5 Tips for Parent Teacher Conference
- Diocesan Road Map for Building Inclusive Approaches
- MTSS as a Framework for Mental Wellness in Catholic Schools
- Planning Small Group Instruction
- School-Level Approaches to Implementing Inclusion
- Science of Complexity
- PLC Work Cycle
- 3 parts backward design
- What is PBIS?
- How Does PBIS Align to a Catholic Worldview?