Bishop Robert Brennan was observing a music class for kindergarten students at Divine Wisdom Catholic Academy in Douglaston on the morning of Jan. 27 when teacher Anthony Russo invited him to join in as the children were learning to keep rhythm.
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Ready, Set, Draw! The ‘Keep Christ in Christmas’ Art Contest is Back
The Tablet’s “Keep Christ in Christmas” art contest has become a seasonal tradition in the Diocese of Brooklyn as school students prepare to submit their artwork for awards and cash prizes.
Incarnation Students Embrace New Media Communications Program With Help From DeSales Media
Austin Belizaire, a sixth grader at Incarnation Catholic Academy in Queens Village, sat at a desk in the computer lab on Nov. 22, checking out a new iPad. He was thoroughly impressed.
Educators Urged to Embrace Change to Help Grow Academies
Catholic academies in the Diocese of Brooklyn will soon begin collecting data on all aspects of their operations and success to develop plans for the future, diocesan officials announced at a conference on Oct. 22.
Bay Ridge Catholic Academy’s Science Lab Sparks Innovation and Discovery
In one corner of the classroom, Livia Chen and Simon Kochergin were peering into microscopes. In another, Megan Heaney, Elena Sealey, and Carolyn Tomaselli teamed up to experiment with turning liquids into different colors. In the front, Chris Stephan held up a plastic bone and examined it to determine where it belonged on a model skeleton.
St. John’s Unveils State-of-the-Art Center for Healthcare Education
St. John’s University marked a new era in its Vincentian mission to address issues of poverty and social justice on Wednesday, Sept. 18, with the dedication of the new St. Vincent Health Sciences Center.
Fontbonne Hall Welcomes Middle School Program in ‘Coming Together’ Moment
Classes at Fontbonne Hall Academy aren’t set to begin for another week, but Harley McElroy just couldn’t wait.
Excitement, New Beginnings Fill The Air on First Day at Incarnation Catholic Academy
Surprises awaited students — early childhood to eighth grade — as they climbed the stairs into Incarnation Catholic Academy on Sept. 4 — the first day of classes for the new academic year. Greeting them in the hallway was their new principal, Dr. Ivan Green, along with Father Josephjude Gannon, the school’s board chairman, and Bishop Robert Brennan.
Meet the Diocese’s Newest Lead Educators For the Upcoming School Year
everal new principals and assistant principals greeted students on Sept. 4, the first day of classes at Catholic schools/academies in the Diocese of Brooklyn.
Did You Know? Tax-Credit Funding for School Choice Existed in N.Y.
PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Bishop Emeritus Nicholas DiMarzio recalled how, in 2006, as a winter storm heaped drifts of wet snow on Brooklyn, a national teachers union leader came to visit. Randi Weingarten, then the president of the United Federation of Teachers, urged him to drop his support of a bill in the Legislature to allow […]