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Verna HardwickSudbury Catholic Schools’ native language teacher Verna Hardwick combines her aboriginal roots and Catholic faith in the classroom, sharing her gift of song and First Nations culture to students who have lost touch with their own language and roots.

Hardwick, 57, recently released a CD entitled Aanii (which means “hello” in Ojibwe) with songs featuring drumming and sung in the native language. This CD is now a teaching tool in her classes at St. David and St. Raphael Catholic School.
{mosimage}TORONTO - One hundred years on and St. AnthonyƵapp Catholic School is still teaching girls like Hailey Moreno reading, spelling and arithmetic, plus getting them ready for first Communion. In the last weeks of her Grade 1 year, Moreno is more than happy the centenarian school is going strong in a brand new building.
{mosimage}HUNTSVILLE, Ont. - Public school trustees have voted down a call to eliminate OntarioƵapp Catholic school system by a margin of almost two to one.
{mosimage}MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Michael Bator announced his retirement after 34 years in education.
TORONTO - Fully Alive has a new lease on life. A revised and updated second edition of the Ontario Catholic school systemƵapp family life program was launched with a teacher-training seminar on the new Grade 1 and 2 text books in Toronto June 11 and 12.
World ReligionsTORONTO - The first-ever Grade 11 world religion textbook from a Canadian Catholic perspective is coming to Ontario Catholic schools this fall.

World Religions: A Canadian Catholic Perspective is published by Novalis Publishing Inc. and Nelson Education Ltd. and will update the previous text that had been used for the Grade 11 course.  

In 2008, the Assembly of Bishops of Ontario (then known as the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops) commissioned the Institute for Catholic Education to write a proposal and approach publishing companies to have the textbook written.
ItƵapp not politics as usual at the Halton Catholic District School Board. A divided board in the region to TorontoƵapp west has voted non-confidence in the chair and vice chair voted in just four months ago.

{mosimage}TORONTO - The Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops has given the go ahead to write the first-ever Grade 11 world religion textbook from a Canadian Catholic perspective.

{mosimage}TORONTO - If Catholics thought the debate over publicly funded religious education in OntarioƵapp last provincial election campaign was bruising, they should have a little history lesson. They would find that todayƵapp battles are sedate compared to those of the 19th century.

{mosimage}TORONTO - How much your kidƵapp teacher makes and whether or not home room will be held on a picket line is likely to be determined at provincial framework discussions being held now as an overture to teacher-school board collective bargaining later this year.