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ACSTA is Hiring an Executive Office Manager!
- 19 January 2023
Job Details Location: Edmonton, AB (Downtown) Conditions: Full time employment (35 hours per week/days), Part time may be considered Terms: Full time permanent, probationary period Part time may be considered Compensation: $75,000 - $90,000/yr Benefits Alberta School Employee Benefits Plan LAPP...
Laudato Si and Catholic Education
- 19 December 2022
Part I: Developing an Ecological Mindset for Catholic Education As a teacher/chaplain in a Catholic high school, Earth Day was one of the few opportunities in the school year that I had to join the religious and spiritual teachings of the Church in a student driven movement, that was...
Learning from Catholic Schools Outside of Alberta
- 28 November 2022
Learning from publicly-funded Catholic schools elsewhere in the world can help our vision and planning in Alberta. We can find shared challenges and receive insight for future directions. I was struck recently by a book chapter by a prominent Catholic educator, Dr. Michael Buchanan [1]. He's an...
Formation for Permeation: Teacher Faith Formation in Catholic Schools
- 14 November 2022
The need for faith formation for Catholic teachers is an ever-present reality. Modern Church documents – from the Second Vatican Council’s Gravissimum Educationis to the most recent instruction from the Congregation for Catholic Education, The Identity of the Catholic School for a Culture of...
A Convert Stumbles Upon the Feast of All Saints
- 01 November 2022
One of the many unanticipated graces of my conversion to Catholicism seven years ago has been the experience of engaging in the richness of ‘Catholic culture’. Often, it’s something that I find most people assume they are familiar with – to some superficial degree they likely are – and as a result...
