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GRACE is proud to announce that technology services team member Lynn Fink has been recognized in a recent article by the local Catholic Diocese publication, The Compass, for her outstanding work in IT. Lynn has been working in the GRACE System since 2004 when she was first employed at Our Lady of Lourdes in 2004. Read the entire article celebrating Lynn’s work on The Compass’s website by clicking here!

Project Lead the Way (PLTW) enhances our rich educational experience through interactive, hands-on experiences. Our faith-filled teachers will lead the instruction while ensuring that our Catholic values and Catholic Social Teaching concepts are expertly woven throughout the content. Through PLTW Launch (K-5), students will become collaborative problem solvers and creative thinkers. Students use structured approaches, like the engineering design process, to employ critical thinking skills to solve scientific issues that relate directly to real life experiences. They will apply STEM knowledge and learn that it is okay to take risks and make mistakes.

Our Catholic worldview will be threaded through each lesson and hands-on experience. This program will allow students to develop a strong foundation in math and science, and make connections between their classroom and future careers. PLTW Launch taps into students’ exploratory nature, engages them in learning that feels like play, and encourages them to keep discovering — now and forever. Each semester, GRACE families receive their student’s individual NWEA MAP Student Progress Report accompanied by an explanatory summary letter.

Impact of Project Lead the Way

A recent study shows PLTW students outperform their peers in school, are better prepared for post-secondary studies, and are more likely to consider STEM careers compared to their non-PLTW peers. Students find PLTW programs relevant, inspiring, engaging, and foundational to their future success.

GRACE middle school is also updating its science curriculum resource to iScience. During the selection process, iScience stood out to our middle school teachers because it enforced the three key discipline areas: Life Science, Physical Science, & Earth and Space Science. In addition, the materials the program provides will prepare students for high school science classes. This includes non-fiction reading skills, hands-on collaboration experiments, academic writing, and more.

I am pleased and humbled to serve as the newly appointed Superintendent of GRACE school systems. I wish to outline and clarify some of the distinct duties and responsibilities that fall into my role as Superintendent. My service to our GRACE schools has a primary aim of looking to the future for our growing system rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

• Curriculum– GRACE has many ongoing processes to review, update and adopt curriculum resources. In collaboration with GRACE Curriculum Director Laura Blicharz, I will lead and oversee these processes. Likewise, I will lead the planning and implementation of the professional development of our teachers to ensure they are prepared to teach our students.
  
• Technology Integration– Along with the leadership of Technology Integration Coordinator Carrie Gossens, I oversee the long-term planning in place for the ways technology is used to support learning. Aspects of technology integration that fall into my duties include overseeing how technology is used in our classrooms, the training our teachers have, and the so ware that is approved.
  
• Communications/Marketing– Building on the success of GRACE’s enrollment growth and successful techniques to invite families to join
  our community, I am developing comprehensive strategies and identifying new ways to tell our
  story and engage new families. With the support of Marketing and Communications Director Madeline Janssen, I am overseeing our internal and external communication plans to continue sharing the Gospel and the good work going on in our schools.
  
• Support for Leadership and Strategy– Our GRACE principals are some of the strongest, most hard-working leaders in Green Bay, and I am supporting their work and leadership by providing resources and helping to steer unifying long-term strategies in our GRACE system.

My office is located at the GRACE Riverside Drive office, and I enjoy regularly getting into each of our nine schools. It is a full-time role, and I report to the President, Kim Desotell. I welcome you to reach out and connect with me as we work together to provide the best in Catholic education for the children in Green Bay.

In Christ,

Drew Mulloy

GRACE Superintendent

GRACE’s outstanding volunteers of 2022 at St Bernard School are Mr. and Mrs. Doug and Diane Dubois!

Our principal, Crystal Blahnik, stated, “I would like to give this special service award to a husband and wife who are grandparents of two students at our school. This couple is a wonderful example of how to serve others in the name of Jesus. Whether it is building or modifying furniture, cleaning tables in the lunchroom, organizing our storage rooms or simply pitching in as needed, they are always willing to help and never ask for anything in return. I am so glad they agreed to come this evening because it gives me such joy to see them honored for their unconditional service and support. Please help me thank Doug and Diane Dubois.”

Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Dubois!

Catch up on all of the latest GRACE news by checking out the Fall 2022 Newsletter. Read about Chesterton Academy of St. John Paul II’s updated science lab, follow St. Bernard Catholic School principal, Crystal Blahnik, on her trip to the Third International Congress in Rome, see photos of what our students have been up to recently and more!

Do you possess a bachelor’s degree? If so, you may be qualified to support our school through substitute teaching—-a teaching degree is not required! Lesson plans and support are always provided.

By substitute teaching at GRACE, you can:

• Generate income with flexible hours you choose
• Come and go with your children
• Choose your buildings and types of classrooms
• Share special moments with your child during a quick lunch, recess, or in the hallway unexpectedly

Your comfort and convenience are important to us. Do you only want to substitute teach at a specific school? No problem! Open to other GRACE schools? We would be happy to assign you to additional sites that work for you.

To help GRACE as a substitute teacher, please reach out to your school principal or learn more by clicking here.

You can also share this post with those who may be interested by copying the URL and pasting it to them. Consider a retired grandparent who would enjoy visiting the school once a month or so, for example. Lastly, please keep our school and staff in your prayers while we continue to navigate this extraordinary time of staff shortages. Thank you!

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Children need healthy meals to learn, and GRACE offers healthy meals every school day. Did you know your children may qualify for free or reduced price meals?

Through participation in United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s National School Lunch Program (NSLP), GRACE is able to offer the free and reduced meal eligibility program, which aids in providing healthy, nutritious, and affordable meals to all students. To find out if your children are eligible, learn more on the GRACE food service webpage. Program materials are available in both English or Spanish online, and paper copies are available in the school office.

If you have any questions, please contact Wendy Gierczak, GRACE Food Service Administrative Assistant via email or by calling (920) 499-7330, ext. 1004.

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Los niños necesitan comidas saludables para aprender, y GRACE ofrece comidas saludables todos los días escolares. ¿Sabía que sus hijos pueden calificar para comidas gratuitas o a precio reducido?

A través de la participación en el Programa Nacional de Almuerzos Escolares ( USDA ) del Departamento de Agricultura de los Estados Unidos (NSLP), GRACE puede ofrecer el programa de elegibilidad de comidas gratuitas y reducidas, que ayuda a proporcionar comidas saludables, nutritivas y asequibles a todos los estudiantes. Para saber si sus hijos son elegibles, obtenga más información en la página web de servicio de alimentos de GRACE. Los materiales del programa están disponibles en inglés o español en línea, y las copias en papel están disponibles en la oficina de la escuela.

Si tiene alguna pregunta, por favor comuníquese con Wendy Gierczak, Asistente Administrativa del Servicio de Alimentos GRACE por correo electrónico o llamando al (920) 499-7330, extensión 1004.

Put your spare change towards a great cause!

• Each homeroom has its own container located outside the main office.
• Homerooms are competing against each other to raise the most money for their selected organization. There will be one winner in each unit level.
• Students bring in money throughout the week.
  • Positive points
    • Pennies – 1 point
    • $1 bill – 100 points
    • $5 bill – 500 points
    • $10 bill – 1000 points
    • $20 bill – 2000 points
  • Negative points
    • Nickels – -5 points
    • Dimes – -10 points
    • Quarters – -25 points
    • Half Dollars – -50 points

Within each unit, the homeroom with the most points wins a party!

• Preschool – 2nd Grade – Movie Party
• 3rd – 5th Grade – Ice Cream Party
• 6th – 8th Grade – Pizza Party

Preschool – Support Seminarians in Guatemala: Mission Fraternity of Mary

The Missionary Fraternity of Mary is an order of Priests within the Roman Catholic Church dedicated to educating and ordaining young men to bring the good news and the sacraments to the marginalized Catholics of the world.  They educate the poor, welcome vocations to religious life to all without regard to the ethnic background; prepare youth for lay ministry within the Church, and work with the poor to develop their spiritual and temporal well-being.

• $1 – one chicken
• $60 – one kind of vegetable seed – carrots, celery, lettuce, corn, etc
• $100 – hygiene supplies for a seminarian for one year
• $250 – Room, board and tuition for one seminarian for one month
• $550 – one laptop or desktop computer for seminary directors

Primary – Kressner Handmaids Children’s Home

Kressner Handmaids Children’s Home aims to give
orphans hope and a better life by providing them with
basic needs. They have access to academic and religious
education to prepare them to become self-sufficient adults.
They enjoy the home here because they live as a family.

• $10 – Provides five chickens
• $25 – Provides five classroom bricks
• $80 – Provides one goat
• $100 – Provides 100 chickens
• $100 – Provides medical care for one year
• $100 – Feed one child for one year
• $120 – Tuition, school supplies, and boarding for one child for one year

Intermediate – Agricultural/Educational Projects

Sister Maria Marciano -Champion for the Poor (in the Dominican Republic and Haiti)

Words to live by…At the end of our lives, all that remains is what we have done for God and for our brothers and sisters…

Copyright 2013. Sister Maria Marciano

• $10 – 10 cement blocks
• $25 – Trays for 25 seedlings
• $40 – One bag of fertilizer
• $50 – Benches
• $200 – 5000 chili seed packages
• $415 – One laptop for educationi
• $1000 – Roofing materials
• $3000 – 30 X 46 ft. slab

Middle School – Friends of Haiti

The Friends of Haiti Inc. helps the poor, needy, and/or at at-risk people of Haiti. We support schools and students  with supplies,
food, clothing, and a specific program of tuition assistance. Our tuition assistance is designed to  support students to become nurses
and doctors. Haiti is in need of professional medical people. We can think of no better way to help Haitians gain better consistent
quality healthcare than by growing a community of medical professionals in the country of Haiti itself. Therefore, we have sought
to create a means to help encourage and help Haitian citizens access an education, so that they are equipped to serve their fellow
countrymen and women.

• $200 – Provides elementary/middle school education for one student for one year
• $250 – Provides high school education for one student for one year

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