Lincoln/Sioux Falls School Leaders Academy 2024-2025 Resources

SPRING SCHOOL LEADERS FORUM

The School Leaders Academy special School Leaders Forum will be held March 13 – 15, 2025, at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School (Denver, CO). Members of the cohort will be able to see the Catholic liberal education approach in action at a flagship ICLE Premier Member School.

Your registration includes all School Leaders Forum program sessions and materials, and all lunches, dinners, and refreshments. The program begins on Thursday with an evening welcome reception at 7 p.m. and concludes by 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. Participants are strongly encouraged to attend the full program.

Breakfast is not included. Participants are responsible for their own travel (including transportation between lodging and Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Classical School) and overnight accommodations. We do not have a specific hotel recommendation, but participants may wish to consider hotels or AirBnB rentals in the following areas:

• Neighborhood around the school
• Cherry Creek area along Colorado Boulevard
• Denver Tech Center area

A block of rooms has been reserved for our group at the Hilton Garden Inn Denver / Cherry Creek. The special, negotiated room rate is $139 / night for rooms with one king bed; this rate includes breakfast. Please contact Program Manager Megan Fassero, mfassero@catholicliberaleducation.org, to make a reservation.

Assignments*

*due on the 3rd Tuesday of the month

If you are unable to attend a live session, let Operations Associate Elisabeth Seeley, eseeley@catholicliberaleducation.org, know when you have viewed the recording so that your attendance record can be updated.

Attendance & Homework Trackers

If you have viewed the recording for a missed session, please let Operations Associate Elisabeth Seeley, eseeley@catholicliberaleducation.org, know so that your attendance record can be updated.

General Resources

• Contact Rosemary by email: rvanderweele@catholicliberaleducation.org or by phone: 720-308-0012

• Contact Mike by email: mvh@catholicliberaleducation.org or by phone: 805-302-6716

• “The Lost Tools of Learning” by Dorothy Sayers

• ICLE Curriculum Guide: Cultivating a Catholic Curriculum

• Resources for Formation — Reading Recommendations

• “The Call to Lead” by the Cardinal Newman Society

• The Book of Pastoral Rule by St. Gregory the Great

• Reflections on the Christian Life by Anthony Esolen

• Glow Kids by Nicholas Kardaras

December – Leadership & Prayer

• Reading from Divine Intimacy

November – Pedagogy & Integration

• Introduction to Beauty in the Word by Stratford Caldecott

• “The Lost Tools of Learning” by Dorothy Sayers

• ICLE Curriculum Guide: Cultivating a Catholic Curriculum

• Trivium & Integration Supplemental Slides

• ICLE Classroom Observation Form

• Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Classical School Teacher Observation Template

• St. Andrew Christmas Novena Holy Card

• St. Andrew Christmas Novena Prayer Card

October – Parent Education

• The Collapse of Parenting by Dr. Leonard Sax, pp. 17-21

• Church Teachings on the Role of Parents

• ICLE Resources for Parent Formation

September – Faculty Formation & Curriculum Planning

• The Art of Teaching by Gilbert Highet (Selections)

• The Seven Laws of Teaching by John Milton Gregory

• Curriculum Integration

• ICLE Curriculum Guide: Cultivating a Catholic Curriculum

August – Mission, Vision, & Catholic Identity

• The Holy See’s Teaching on Catholic Schools by Archbishop J. Michael Miller

• Divini Illius Magistri by Pope Pius XI (1929)

• The Religious Dimension of Education in a Catholic School by the Congregation for Catholic Education (1988)

• “How to Teach Anything” by Dr. Greg Roper – ICLE NC 2023

• Rosemary Vander Weele on Catholic Education | The Augustine Institute Show with Dr. Tim Gray

RECORDINGS

National Forum:

• Trivium & Integration Supplemental Slides