NCEA's Department of Secondary Schools Awards
Every Year at the NCEA Convention & Exposition, the Secondary Schools Department honors outstanding Catholic secondary school educators during the Department's Award Convocation. The Department honors Catholic school educators who deserve national recognition and reflect the richness and diversity of American Catholic education. You are encouraged to consider nominees who have made significant contributions in a variety of roles including administrators, faculty, staff, board leadership and athletic and co-curricular advisors.
Click here to download the criteria, guidelines and nomination form for the Catholic Secondary Education Award.
Nominations can be submitted electronically here.
NOMINATIONS ARE DUE BY TUESDAY DECEMBER 2ND. This year's awards will be presented at the NCEA Convention in Anaheim, California on Wednesday, April 15, 2009.
***Individuals who are selected to receive the award must be willing and able to attend the convention to receive and be recognized for the award.
Congratulations to last year's winners listed below. Learn about their inspiring stories!
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Mr. Gerry Adams
Principal
Reitz Memorial High School
Evansville, IN
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Sr. Mary Berchmans Hannan, VHM
President Emerita/Director of Mission & Ministry
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School
Washington, DC
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Rev. Thomas J. Elewaut, CJ
Principal
Bishop Diego Garcia High School
Santa Barbara, CA
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Mrs. E. Joy Hoy
Principal
Cardinal Ritter High School
Indianapolis, IN
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Mr. Vincent McGuire
Principal
Boylan Central Catholic High School
Rockford, IL
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Sr. Martina Rockers, OSU
Science Department Head
Bishop Miege High School
Roeland Park, KS
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The Michael J. Guerra Leadership Award
Instituted by the Secondary Schools Department’s Executive Committee of the National Catholic Educational Association, the award honors Michael Guerra, the NCEA Secondary Schools Department’s Executive Director from 1982 to 2001. This national award, launched at the NCEA convention in 2001, recognizes Michael Guerra’s vision, his leadership and his extraordinary commitment to the mission of Catholic secondary school education. The Award serves to advance this vision as it acclaims the significant contributions of a selected educator.
The MJG Leadership Award is bestowed annually at the NCEA convention to an educator whose impact on Catholic Secondary Schools will have a distinctive and lasting impact.
Nominees are selected according to the following criteria:
- Outstanding service to Catholic secondary school(s);
- Local and/or national contribution having a long-term impact;
- Capacity to serve as an articulate spokesperson for/on behalf of Catholic Secondary Schools.
Selection of the recipent is made by the Executive Committee of the Department of Secondary Schools.
2008 Michael J. Guerra Leadership Awardee
Sr. Mary Angela Shaughnessy, SCN, JD, PhD
U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon Schools
The No Child Left Behind - Blue Ribbon Schools Program honors public and private K-12 schools that are either academically superior in their states or demonstrate dramatic gains in student achievement. Blue Ribbon recipients will be national models of excellence that others can learn from.
Two Catholic high schools were recipients of this year's recognition. Congratulations to the administrators, faculty, staff, students and parents of Saint Viator High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois and Aquinas High School in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.
For a complete list of winners, follow this link.
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige established the No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Schools Program to honor elementary and secondary schools in the United States that make significant progress in closing achievement gaps or who demonstrate outstanding achiecement. The No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Schools Program is the successor to the Blue Ribbon Schools Program.
Since 1983, when private schools were first included in the program, 247 Catholic secondary schools have been honored with this distinction, with a grand total of 317 instances of recognition. This figure takes into consideration the 44 schools that received the award twice, the 12 schools that have received the award three times, and one school that received the award four times.
The program recognizes elementary and secondary schools that meet either of two assesment criteria: schools that have at least 40 percent of their students come from disadvantaged backgrounds and dramatically improve these students' performances on national or state addesments as well as schools ranked in the top 10 percent of the nation (as measured by standardized national assessments) or the state (as measured by standardized state assessments)
For those interested in learning more about and applying for this prestigious award, visit the CAPE (Concil for American Private Education) website at www.capenet.org/brs.html.
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