Renewing the Promise - Join the Conversation

Posted On Wednesday April 26, 2017

Dear Parents and Guardians, 

The Institute for Catholic Education (ICE) together with Catholic School Boards across Ontario want to hear from you about Catholic education. ICE has launched Renewing the Promise: Exploring the Critical Role of Catholic Education in Contemporary Society to gather feedback and engage parents and guardians in an online dialogue. 

Your input about Catholic education in Ontario – the way it fulfills its mandate as well as the challenges and opportunities of the present moment – will help to guide us for the future.

You can offer your ideas and input on-line through Thought Exchange. Login to: http://signup.thotex.com/iceont/Pyv to participate. We have added a Renewing the Promise banner with the above link on our Board and schools’ websites. 

Thought Exchange provides background information and asks you to answer three open-ended questions anonymously. When the survey closes on May 19, 2017 responses will be sorted into themes. You will then be invited to look at emerging themes and prioritize them, locally and provincially during the “Star” phase of process. 

To learn more, we are inviting all interested parents, guardians, partners in Catholic education and the public to attend an information session on: 

Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Pope Francis Centre, 652 Rossland Road West, Oshawa 

During this meeting, we will review background information on Renewing the Promise and provide you with the three questions that Thought Exchange will ask you to complete. 

Your ideas will provide important input for a gathering of the Catholic community later in the year on the theme of Renewing the Promise. 

When the process is completed, results and analysis will be made available in September or October and shared during Catholic Education Week in 2018. Join the conservation on the future of Catholic Education.

Yours in faith, 

 

John Rinella                             Anne O’Brien
Chair, Board of Trustees            Director of Education