| Last Friday Mount Michael’s faculty joined other Catholic
High School teachers from the Omaha area for the first of a series
of presentations titled “Foundations of Faith”
 Foundations of Faith is a series of one-day courses designed to
provide all educators in the Catholic schools of the Archdiocese
with a foundation in Catholic Church teaching. The eight courses
that teachers will cycle through over the course of eight years
are Catholic school identity, liturgy and sacraments, prayer, scripture,
morality, social justice, church history, and basic Catholic doctrine.
Foundations of Faith is also intended to help build community among
Catholic educators throughout the diocese.
This year's offering for metro high school teachers centered
on the issue of Catholic school identity. Dr. Timothy Cook, assistant
professor and Director of Secondary Education at Creighton University,
gave a one hour talk entitled "Catholic School Identity
and Mission: Building a Culture of Relationships." Dr. Cook
will focused on relationships that exist within our school buildings
and relationships that we build with the local and global community.
Dr. Cook believes that the charism of Catholic schools in this
new century will be to build relationships.
After Dr. Cook's talk, teachers participated in two 45-minute
discussions with a small group of educators from various metro
Catholic schools. In each discussion group, the discussion leader
invited teachers to learn from each other by sharing concrete
ideas.
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