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

Mr. Philip V. Robey, Executive Director

Philip V. Robey serves as executive director of the Secondary Schools Department of NCEA.  Prior to this, he served for almost twenty years as both and elementary and secondary school principal in Washington, DC area Catholic and public schools. Mr. Robey has also taught graduate level classes in educational administration, finance, and human resource management in the graduate school of education at Trinity University in Washington. Prior to becoming a principal, he served as Manager for Religious Education Surveys at NCEA. He received an M.S. degree in education from Trinity University, completed graduate work in Theology at The Catholic University of America, and received a B.A. degree in English from Catholic University. He is currently completing his dissertation toward a Ph.D. in educational leadership at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. His main topic of academic interest is school leadership preparation at colleges and universities nationwide and the impact of school leaders on school success.

 

 

 

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.