The Catholic Curriculum Corporation’s annual When Faith Meets Pedagogy 2018 conference will be taking place from Thursday, October 25 to Saturday, October 27 at the Delta by Marriott by the Toronto Airport. The conference is a gathering for those involved in Catholic education at all levels.

Michael Bator, Executive Director of the Catholic Curriculum Corporation (CCC) for the past nine years, says that the event was formed in order to help develop uniquely Catholic educational resources.

“It helps ensure that teachers working in publicly-funded Catholic schools are receiving the type of professional development to support the resources that might be developed by individual boards and/or by the Catholic Curriculum Corporation itself,” he said.

Dr. Nuala Kenny will be opening this year’s conference on Thursday evening as one of the keynote speakers. She is a medical doctor, a member of the Sisters of Charity of Halifax, Emeritus Professor of Bio-ethics at Dalhousie University, and a policy advisor to the Catholic Health Alliance of Canada.

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Another successful CCSTA Annual General Meeting is in the books. We would like to send a big thank you to this year’s organizing committee for putting on an incredibly enjoyable, informative, and relevant conference.

“It was excellent,” says CCSTA Executive Director Julian Hanlon. “The location, of course, was beautiful. The facilities were excellent. The speakers were very relevant. All in all, it was a very successful conference.”

Mr. Hanlon also emphasized how timely the speakers and workshops were.

“The list of speakers that they had covered a wide variety of topics, but all the topics were very relevant to what trustees are dealing with back in their school board,” he says. “That was very appreciated.”

On Saturday evening, Sr. Teresita Kambeitz was presented with the 2018 Higgins Award for a lifetime of dedication to faith and education. She gave an excellent and humbling speech.

“Everyone enjoyed the Higgins Award winner,” says Mr. Hanlon. “She spoke very nicely.”

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