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
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterSarah Wu is using the complexities of science to simplify malaria screening.
Thunder Bay teacher rocks on
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterCatholic 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
By Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - 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
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterSTRATFORD, 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
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsBARRY’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.
London Catholic board developing a new communication strategy
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterThe London Catholic school board is proposing to spend up to $100,000 to revamp the board’s communication strategy.
Developing entire person key to success
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterDeveloping the entire person is what keeps Catholic education so successful in Ontario, Marino Gazzola believes.
Improv tickles this team’s fancy
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterMISSISSAUGA, ONT. - At St. Marcellinus Catholic Secondary School being part of the improvisational theatre team takes more than just being funny.
Program gives aboriginals another chance to graduate
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterAboriginal 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.
Jesuit program connects students with Global South
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Canadian Jesuits International (CJI) is bringing social justice teachings to high school students as part of its new Youth for Others program.