About the Secondary Schools Department 

The NCEA Secondary Schools Department is called to provide leadership, advocacy, and service to Catholic secondary schools as communities with a Catholic identity rooted in faith, committed to justice, living out Gospel values, and promoting excellence in all programs.

NCEA Secondary Schools Department Staff
Department Email Address: nceasec@ncea.org

Philip V. Robey, Ph.D., Executive Director

Philip V. Robey is a native Washingtonian and has served in both Catholic and public education as a teacher and administrator at the elementary, secondary, and national levels.

In 1990-91, Dr. Robey worked with NCEA as manager of Religious Education Surveys. In Catholic education, he served as the first lay principal of both St. Hugh’s Elementary School in Greenbelt, Md. and Paul VI High School in Fairfax, Virginia. He also served as principal of St. Mark’s Elementary School in Hyattsville, Maryland and was both a teacher and administrator in public schools in Montgomery County Maryland and Washington, DC.

Dr. Robey is a graduate of Gonzaga College High School in the District of Columbia, and The Catholic University of America, where he majored in English. He completed graduate work in administration at the University of Maryland, College Park, and in Theology at Catholic University. He holds a Master of Science degree from Trinity University in Washington, DC and has completed his doctorate in educational leadership at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. His main academic interests are in school leader preparation at colleges and universities nationwide, and the impact of school leadership on student achievement and overall school success.

He holds various awards and citations among which is the Philip Robey Science and Technology Scholarship, which was established in appreciation by Paul VI Catholic High School, Fairfax, VA. in 2006

Kenneth L. Famulare, Assistant Director [email]

 

Established in 1904, the NCEA is the largest private professional education organization in the world, representing 200,000 Catholic educators serving 7.6 million students in Catholic elementary and secondary schools, in religious education programs, in seminaries and in colleges and universities.