The Good Shepherd

Good morning Kristin,

On behalf of Archbishop Etienne, I am extending an invitation to you and your School Commissions/Boards for a Partners in the Gospel webinar with Archbishop Etienne and members of the Chancery Staff to discuss the important topics of Co-Responsibility and Collaborative Leadership. For your convenience, this hour-long webinar is offered on two different evenings: Wednesday, May 15 from 7-8pm, and Monday, May 20 from 7-8pm. Arrangements are being made to provide simultaneous Spanish translation. Please register through this link: https://archseattle.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2453/responses/new

Please extend this invitation and registration link to the current members of your School Commissions, as we would like to include all the faithful serving in our parish and school consultative bodies. In the event you do not have an active School Commission/Board, please consider identifying and inviting any other key lay volunteer leaders in your communities that you think would benefit from attending this Lay Consultative Leader webinar with Archbishop Etienne.

I am looking forward to this special evening when together our Pastors and Lay Consultative Leaders will hear this message of co-responsibility for leading our faith communities on their Partners in the Gospel journey to eventually becoming one canonical parish.

If you have not already, please register for our last principal meeting of the year on May 9. It will be an opportunity to celebrate those who will be moving into new chapters in their lives and careers and to begin casting our collective sights toward what we hope to work toward next year.

With gratitude,

NICHOLAS FORD | Superintendent

Office for Catholic Schools | Archdiocese of Seattle

OPERATIONS CALENDAR & MONTHLY TASK LIST

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Principal Weekly Meetings

05/02/24- Exit Interviews/Ending year well with Pam and Kelly

05/09/24- In person principal meeting at St. Thomas, Tukwila

Upcoming Events

May 3, 2024

Application DUE: participation in Federal Programs

(hard deadline)

click here.

May 3, 2024

Last Chance to order awards.

Staff Service Awards &

7th Grade Leadership Awards

May 8, 2024

Effective Strategies for Meeting the Needs of Multilingual Learners PD

Zoom Meeting with Dr. Katy Lichon & Dr. Jocelyn Smith.

3:00-4:30PM

May 9th, 2024

All Principal Meeting

St. Thomas, Tukwila

Registration closes Friday.

May 31st, 2024

Principals and presidents are encouraged to nominate outstanding educators in their schools by May 31, 2024. The nomination form is available here.

August 12&13, 2024

New Teacher Orientation

MISSION & CATHOLIC IDENTITY

Care Diversified Learners Guidebook

Please utilize the updated DL Guidebook below as an essential toolkit to help your school serve your diversified learners.

ACRE Registration

Please ensure that your 5th and 8th graders complete their ACRE assessment by tomorrow, April 30.

Civil Rights Pilgrimage

You and your staff are invited to the June 19-24 civil rights pilgrimage, which is designed for leaders in various roles throughout our archdiocese.

GOVERNANCE & LEADERSHIP

Governance and Leadership Update:

In this edition: Important deadline reminders in this edition, and the link to annual SPS student services meeting.

Educational Leadership Programs

Fulcrum Educational Leadership Grant opens is open. See link for more information.

ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

Early Learning Newsletter

Weekly Newsletter will cover resources, professional development, upcoming meetings and more. Read more .

OCS Presents: Summer PD Lunch & Learns

Online one-hour bite size (get it?) Lunch and Learn PDs for your teachers to listen and learn while they eat. Please forward information to all teachers.

Accreditation Team Interest Form

Please complete this form to indicate your interest to join in on an accreditation team for 2024-25 - please send to your teachers.

May 8th Professional Development for Teachers & School Leaders: Effective Strategies for Multilingual Learners

Join us online on May 8th from 3-4:30pm to learn more about how to best serve our multilanguage learners.

Session Description:

English learners are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. school population, and yet, most of our schools are under-prepared to meet the needs of this burgeoning population. Given that multilingualism is a superpower, and that communication can be the most inexhaustible source of joy and of frustration for some students, how do you as leaders and educators best serve your English learners? Join us for this professional development session in which we will address high-impact strategies and ways to create linguistically-rich classrooms in which multilingual learners are celebrated, supported, and challenged. Register for this excellent online professional development session.

OPERATIONAL VITALITY

Save the Date for our now TWO DAY Advancement Event...

Where Innovation Meets Mission! Click graphic for details.

Regular School Financial Reporting

Principals should be receiving monthly financial reports. If you are not receiving monthly reports, reports are incomplete or confusing please contact John Sullivan.

Student Tuition Spreadsheet

Most Principals create a spreadsheet that maps out each Student's Tuition from Gross to Net. It incorporates each source of financial aid or discount that the Student receives. John Sullivan is asking each Principal to share this with him. Please remove the student/family names. Please call John with questions.

Staff Service Awards

If you're planning to present service awards this year, the deadline has passed however, if you get your order in this week, we will do our best to deliver. Click HERE to order.

7th Grade Leadership Awards

Please get your Leadership Pins and Ribbons order in TODAY!

Fulcrum Foundation News

St. John Baptist de La Salle Educator Excellence Awards

Presented by Fulcrum in partnership with the Office for Catholic Schools

This new award will recognize eight exceptional educators in regions throughout the archdiocese. Recipients will receive a personal gift of $1000. Recognition will happen at the school-level and at Fulcrum's chairman's event on September 26, 2024 in Seattle.