Michelle Griepsma (far left) stands with classmates, instructor Richard Shields and course manager Carol Devine (back row) following the convocation ceremony for the Certificate in Catholic School Governance program.

Catholic governance course has its first graduates

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TORONTO - Graduation time has come for the first crop of the Certificate in Catholic School Governance continuing education course offered to Ontario's Catholic school trustees.

By simplifying the complicated, Brantford student earns honours

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Sarah Wu is using the complexities of science to simplify malaria screening.

Thunder Bay teacher rocks on

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Catholic elementary school teacher Krista McCarville is taking one more crack at competitive curling before giving it up to focus on her career and family.

Call of the north helps dream come alive

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TORONTO - Pamila Jesuthasan knows teaching is her vocation. Because of this, she took a leap of faith by moving more than 2,000 kilometres away from the comforts of her Toronto home to the isolated village of Ivujivik, Que.

Young Tommy balances school, acting career

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STRATFORD, ONT. - Conor Bergauer considers himself more of a singer than an actor but the young teen jumped at the chance to play “the deaf, dumb and blind,” kid in the summer hit at the Stratford Festival. The Grade 7 Catholic student from Waterloo, Ont. is sharing the lead role in the hit musical Tommy through the summer and into the fall.

Challenge is to make the classroom a holy place

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BARRY’S BAY, ONT. - Catholic education should lead to an encounter with the living God and reveal reality’s transcendence, said the Federation of Catholic Teachers’ Guilds of Ontario’s founding president.

Board chair Phil Squire

London Catholic board developing a new communication strategy

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The London Catholic school board is proposing to spend up to $100,000 to revamp the board’s communication strategy.

Marino Gazzola

Developing entire person key to success

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Developing the entire person is what keeps Catholic education so successful in Ontario, Marino Gazzola believes.

Seven of the nine members of St. Marcellinus’ improvisational team strike a pose with the trophy they brought home after winning the national championships in March.

Improv tickles this team’s fancy

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MISSISSAUGA, ONT. - At St. Marcellinus Catholic Secondary School being part of the improvisational theatre team takes more than just being funny.

Two aboriginal students work side-by-side at computers inside the Apitisiwin Education Learning Centre in Cochrane, Ont.

Program gives aboriginals another chance to graduate

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Aboriginal adults in northern Ontario are getting a second shot at completing their high school diploma through their local Catholic school board. The Northeastern Catholic District School Board’s ACCESS Program is offered in four centres in the board’s vast area from Moosonee on the shore of James Bay down to Cobalt in the south.

Canadian Jesuits International is partnered with St. Anne’s Primary School in Kingston, Jamaica. A new program is connecting Toronto students with CJI projects in the Global South.

Jesuit program connects students with Global South

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TORONTO - Canadian Jesuits International (CJI) is bringing social justice teachings to high school students as part of its new Youth for Others program.

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