The SAN Script – The week of March 30 – April 3
Introducing St. Paul
Who Is Paul?
Sunday, March 29, 2015
This week we begin looking at the next part of my wisdom lineage, St. Paul. This man is in a category all his own, with no parallels. He is the outsider who dares to challenge the insiders–first of his own Judaism and then of the new sect that we now call Christianity. Paul is a Greek-speaking Jew and an educated Roman citizen living in the Diaspora (the dispersion of Jews beyond Israel), from the little town of Tarsus in what is now southeastern Turkey. He pays his way by tentmaking and yet is a pastor and mystical theologian of the first magnitude.Paul is not one of the Twelve Apostles, and he never knew Jesus in the flesh. In fact, he hardly ever quotes Jesus directly. Paul writes his astounding letters in a seeming vacuum, several decades before the four Gospels were written or before there was such a thing as Christian theology. Approximately one third of the Christian Scriptures are written by Paul directly (the authentic seven letters), written by Paul’s students (Colossians and Ephesians), attributed to Paul (2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, Hebrews, and Titus), or written largely about Paul (Acts of the Apostles).
There are those who say that Paul is the founder of the Christian religion, a case one could strongly make. Jesus proclaims the Reign of God; Paul gives shape and structure to the implications of that message. He tries to bring Jesus’ teaching down to a practical, ethical, pastoral level, so that it can “happen.” Paul wants to create a concrete vehicle for the Christ vision. He begins the inevitable organization of the message, the ministry, and the shape of what became Christianity. Whether or not we like it, Christians have to acknowledge and pay attention to Paul.
Adapted from Jesus as Liberator/Paul as Liberator (MP3 download);
St. Paul: The Misunderstood Mystic (MP3 download);
Great Themes of Paul: Life as Participation, disc 1 (CD)Gateway to Silence
“I live no longer, not I; but Christ lives in me” (Galatians 2:20).
St. Anthony this Week
Monday, March 30
Hip Hop Club starts at Lunch Gr. 4,5,6
Paul and Krista involved in webinar (PM)
Tuesday, March 31
LAST school wide audit
Cathlee O’Connell to read with Mrs.Rupnik’s class (AM)
Dorothy reading with Mrs. Rupnik’s class (PM)
chess club at noon
Table Tennis at 3:15 PM
Arduino Basics – University of Ottawa For details, link here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/arduino-basics-tickets-15777159910 5:30 – 7:00 PM
University of Ottawa-Makerspace – 161 Louis-Pasteur Pvt, CBY B109D – Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 – Canada
Wednesday, April 1
Dental Screening for JK, SK, 2, 4, 6
Rosary Group Visit
Rosary schedule
FDK1 10:30-10:45
FDK2 10:45-11
(Lucy)
1/2 Cook: 12:15-12:35 (Maruka)
1 and 2/3: 12:35-12:55 (Maruka-Learning Commons)
Gr. 4/5 Mr. Girard: 12:55-1:25 (Lucy)
Gr. 5/6 1:45-2:30 (Lucy)
We Day – two students attending
Thursday, April 2
Stations of the Cross at St. Anthony Church- 11:00 AM
St. Anthony Superstars – 2:30 PM
Friday, April 3
Good Friday – no school
Questions to ask when considering a 1:1 program – how do we respond at our school?
Over the past week, I have written two blog posts about the implementation of Chromebooks at our school – here is an excerpt from one of them. The posts can be reached here.
We are on the cusp of starting a limited 1:1 program at our school. As we prepare, it is important to consider al sorts of questions – as we prepare, I want to consider answers to questions asked by Ann McMullan in the article:
The 10 questions to ask before you start your one-to-one program
McMullan shared 5 start factors that are keys to success for one-to-one programs:
- Start with “Why?” What are instructional goals you hope to accomplish?
- Start small, think big. “Find some of those teacher leaders and let them try out the devices,” she said. “Find out what the issues are with the network. But do think big; it becomes an equity issue very quickly.”
- Start with teachers first. It’s critical.
- Start the conversation across all departments.
- Do start: Go for it. Failure is part of the learning process.
We have been getting closer and closer to 1:1 especially at the junior level all year. The key point for us is the teachers. We have a group that is willing to experiment and learn. We have had several group PD sessions during and after the school day to work on our understanding on how various apps – especially Google Apps can improve student learning. We have had great results with Read and Write and are learning how to give more effective feedback with Kaizena. We are learning more about digital portfolios. We are also learning new ways to deliver PD to staff. For our last PD venture, we invited a teacher from our partner school to spend the day with teachers and classes to work on digital portfolios. Having an experienced teacher with us in the classroom made a huge difference.