by Tammy Conway, WCEA Commissioner for the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon
Every decision made in our schools should be made through the lens of our mission. Does this choice align with our mission and does it move our mission forward?
by Lindsay Caron - Archdiocesan school mom + sub, and creator of TOB Parent School + TOB Monthly
If you want to teach about the sanctity of human life, you can easily do this through a science lesson. Life is defined as, “any system capable of performing functions such as eating, metabolizing, excreting, breathing, moving, growing…” (Britannica). These aspects of life agree with a Catholic understanding of the human person...
by Ryan Mainard, Assistant Director of Catholic Education
Worldly economics is concerned with the production, consumption and transfer of wealth. Catholic parents teaching home economics is not about an inheritance, trust fund, or passing on the family home, all of which have the potential to make a person spiritually impoverished. It is, however, really about the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth, only the wealth in a family is not counted in dollars and cents, but in love.