Your Space: Called to Be Saints
The learning area needs to inspire and engage your students. Here is an idea for how to decorate and arrange your learning space and prayer table for October.
Easy-to-Use Engagement Tools
Get feedback within groups or classrooms
SR. CAROLINE CERVENY, SSJ-TOSF
Two digital tools will engage your students or parents in responding to you when you want...
Notes to a Newbie Catechist
On Surviving — and Thriving — in Catechetical Ministry
JOY DAVIS
You’ve been asked to volunteer as a catechist. Maybe someone tapped you on the shoulder...
Tips for Adding Music to Prayer
I can’t carry a Tune — How can I use music to pray with students?
KATE DANELUK
Years ago, music was considered such an important part...
More Than Math!
How Catechists Teach Differently Than Any Other Kind of Teacher
Jared Dees
When I first started out as a religious educator, I used to be envious...
YouTube Videos in Today’s Classroom
Tips for sharing safe, distraction-free video content
ANNABEL DOTZMAN
In our ever-changing world, technology continues to develop at a record pace. If we stop for a...
Leading DRE: 3 Summer-Break Planning Strategies
Before you Pause, Look Back and Look Forward
DEANNA BARTALINI
The catechetical year is winding down. You’ve made it through whirlwind months of working on...
Teacher: “I don’t know how to handle student conflicts or fights.”
Sometimes we are at odds with others-and so are our students. As Catholic educators, we might not want to call it "fighting"; that goes...
“Flipped” Catechesis
An app that helps parents and catechists stay in touch
SARA JONCKHEERE
In 2017 the Archbishop of Detroit, Most Reverend Allen H. Vigneron, issued his pastoral...
Best Practices for Teaching Religion
In many ways, catechesis is a lot like parenting.
