{"id":4401,"date":"2021-06-28T14:57:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T18:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardinalnewmansociety.org\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2021-07-06T22:08:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T02:08:12","slug":"catholic-curriculum-standards-faithful-to-the-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardinalnewmansociety.org\/catholic-curriculum-standards-faithful-to-the-core\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Curriculum Standards: Faithful to the Core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Jill Annable began her role as assistant superintendent in the Diocese of Grand Rapids, the staff was working on rewriting its curriculum standards for all subject areas and all grades, to try to integrate Catholic identity across all content areas.<\/p>\n<p>Educators who have worked on school standards know that it\u2019s no small task. Fortunately for Annable and the Diocese of Grand Rapids, timely help provided just what they needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were drafting and drafting,\u201d Annable recalled in a recent podcast produced by the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA), where she now serves as the executive director of academic excellence. She remembers when her superintendent walked into her office and excitedly shared, \u201cIt was published, you can use it!\u201d She meant the <a href=\"https:\/\/cardinalnewmansociety.org\/educator-resources\/resources\/academics\/catholic-curriculum-standards\/\">Catholic Curriculum Standards<\/a>, which had just been released by The Cardinal Newman Society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I opened it up, I realized that it was the missing piece,\u201d Annable told Dr. Denise Donohue, the Newman Society\u2019s deputy director of K-12 programs, who was also a guest on the podcast. \u201cIt was the language I needed to use without trying to invent it ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Diocese of Grand Rapids isn\u2019t the only diocese to find our Catholic Curriculum Standards helpful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince, in every school, the curriculum carries the mission, these Catholic Curriculum Standards are an invaluable contribution to Catholic schools everywhere,\u201d says Father John Belmonte, S.J., superintendent of the Diocese of Venice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCatholic schools have benefited from the standards-based reform movement in education with one notable exception: the absence of rigorous standards rooted and grounded in our Catholic tradition,\u201d Fr. Belmonte continues. \u201cImplementation of the Catholic Curriculum Standards will provide a renewed sense of mission for our Catholic schools operating within the increasingly secularized world of education today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, at least 28 diocesan school systems and many other Catholic schools across the United States\u2014serving more than 270,000 students\u2014use the Catholic Curriculum Standards to replace or supplement their existing diocesan standards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Common Core concerns\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the last decade, many public and Catholic schools across the country have adopted the Common Core State Standards. But the Common Core is a secular program designed with utilitarian goals\u2014to lift up under-achieving public school students for success in college and careers. Aside from disagreements about its embrace of controversial methods and educational theories, the Common Core was never intended for the fullness of human flourishing that the Church demands of Catholic education.<\/p>\n<p>Giving voice to the concerns of many Catholic families, the Newman Society\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cardinalnewmansociety.org\/educator-resources\/resources\/academics\/common-core\/\">\u201cCatholic Is Our Core\u201d program<\/a> has informed Catholic educators about shortcomings of the Common Core. It began with a campaign by mail, email, social media and web outreach to educate Catholic families, leaders and educators and to urge Catholic schools to reject or at least radically adapt the Common Core standards to the mission of Catholic education. Our analyses have been featured in national Catholic publications and on Catholic radio and television.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, consistent with many of the Newman Society\u2019s concerns, a cadre of Catholic college professors (132 altogether) signed a joint letter stating they were \u201cconvinced that Common Core is so deeply flawed that it should not be adopted by Catholic schools\u201d and that those who had adopted it \u201cshould seek an orderly withdrawal.\u201d The following year, the education office of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement warning that the Common Core standards alone are insufficient for Catholic schools.<\/p>\n<p>Today it is clear that the Common Core has failed to produce the promised improvements in both public and Catholic schools, and states and dioceses are pulling back from the misguided standards. What now should replace them? The Common Core experience, though messy, helped spark widespread interest among Catholic bishops, educators and families for something better. It is toward that goal that the Newman Society\u2019s staff turned, striving for a uniquely Catholic set of standards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Providing a solution\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the Newman Society resolved to answer a question posed by several bishops and diocesan superintendents: \u201cIf Catholic education is distinct from secular education, then where are the standards for Catholic educators?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our response is the Catholic Curriculum Standards, rooted firmly in the Church\u2019s teaching on Catholic education and her long tradition of liberal arts formation in truth, goodness and beauty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first time I read them, I thought this isn\u2019t the \u2018Catholic Common Core.\u2019 This is the why and the how, and gives the beauty to why we teach math, why we inquire in science. You wouldn\u2019t just slap these standards on top of Common Core,\u201d said Annable.<\/p>\n<p>The standards specifically cover the core subjects of English, history, scientific topics and mathematics, but Annable says her diocese was able to apply the standards to elective courses as well, which she says was a \u201ctrue gift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Developing the Catholic Curriculum Standards was a labor of love. The Newman Society staff spent two years analyzing Church documents to identify key elements the Church expects to find in all Catholic schools. Those were distilled into the Newman Society\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cardinalnewmansociety.org\/educator-resources\/resources\/mission-and-governance\/principles-of-catholic-identity\/\">Principles of Catholic Identity in Education<\/a>, which are similar to Archbishop Michael Miller\u2019s \u201cessential marks of Catholic schools,\u201d but capturing more of the language and balance of Vatican documents.<\/p>\n<p>For the standards project, the Newman Society\u2019s Dr. Dan Guernsey and Dr. Denise Donohue studied these Principles, Church documents, scholarly works related to Catholic education and the Catholic intellectual tradition, and books articulating the nature of liberal arts and classical education. They also met with more than a dozen professors from faithful Catholic colleges to consider what knowledge and formation one should expect from a Catholic school graduate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Catholic foundation\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Curriculum Standards include \u201cdispositional\u201d standards for each academic discipline, along with expected \u201ccontent\u201d or \u201cintellectual\u201d standards.<\/p>\n<p>As Guernsey and Donohue were reviewing Church documents for curricular application, they noticed much discussion about the formation of dispositions within students. That topic was much more prominent than concerns about course content. For example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Catholic school aims at forming in the Christian those particular virtues which will enable him to live a new life in Christ and help him to play faithfully his part in building up the Kingdom of God. (The Catholic School, 1977, 36)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Creating the dispositional standards has proven beneficial for Catholic schools needing to address the National Standards and Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools (NSBECS) for accreditation purposes. Schools using the Catholic Curriculum Standards, along with a solid virtue program, are able to address numerous benchmarks required for accreditation.<\/p>\n<p>For the mathematics standards, the Catholic perspective is primarily dispositional. The Catholic Curriculum Standards expect students to identify truth and falsehood in relationships and to acquire the mental habits of \u201cprecise, determined, careful and accurate questioning, inquiry and reasoning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Examples of English literature standards include, \u201cExplain how Christian and Western symbols and symbolism communicate the battle between good and evil and make reality visible\u201d and \u201cDemonstrate how literature is used to develop a religious, moral and social sense.\u201d The English standards especially earned high praise from Sandra Stotsky, Ed.D., who is a national consultant in standards development and author of the highly regarded Massachusetts Academic Standards. She proved very helpful to the Newman Society\u2019s work as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe K-12 standards and suggested readings in Appendix C for the reading\/literature curriculum in Catholic schools reflect more than the uniqueness of their intellectual tradition,\u201d Stotsky said. \u201cThey also provide the academic rigor missing in most public-school English language arts curricula.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inspiring and crucial\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The impact of the Catholic Curriculum Standards over the past five years has been exciting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Catholic Curriculum Standards are EXACTLY what I have been wanting\u2014specific in the areas of faith formation and the pursuit of goodness, truth and beauty, but broad enough to give the teachers latitude in their instructional methods,\u201d said Lynette Schmitz, the principal of St. John Paul II Preparatory School, a Catholic classical hybrid school in St. Louis, Mo.<\/p>\n<p>Derek Tremblay, headmaster of Mount Royal Academy in Sunapee, N.H, agrees. \u201cI thoroughly love the Standards that The Cardinal Newman Society has put out and have yet to find anything comparable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another Catholic school principal, Janice Martinez, principal of Holy Child Catholic School in Tijeras, N.M., said: \u201cI find the standards of education you have recently publicized to be inspiring. I believe the work you do is crucial and support your mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the great success of the Catholic Curriculum Standards, there\u2019s much more work to be done. Standards help establish a school\u2019s priorities and promote the right outcomes of truly faithful Catholic education. But curriculum standards alone can never determine what happens in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that the Catholic Curriculum Standards will promote greater integration of the faith in every academic discipline, leading eventually to new and improved textbooks, lesson plans, teacher training and school evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>The complete <a href=\"https:\/\/cardinalnewmansociety.org\/educator-resources\/resources\/academics\/catholic-curriculum-standards\/\">Catholic Curriculum Standards<\/a> are available to educators at no cost on the Newman Society\u2019s website, together with helpful appendices and resources to support implementing the standards. Feel free to reach out to The Cardinal Newman Society if you are interested in knowing more about the standards and how they might be used in your diocese, school or homeschool program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jill Annable began her role as assistant superintendent in the Diocese of Grand Rapids, the staff was working on rewriting its curriculum standards for all subject areas and all grades, to try to integrate Catholic identity across all content areas. 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