Developed in partnership between NAES and the Anglican Schools Commission of Australia, this Religious Studies curriculum offers guidelines for the teaching of religion along with seven specific content areas for early childhood through grade 12. Since its launch in 2013, Anglican schools in Australia have contributed over sixty lessons plans. Participants will review the components of the curriculum, view sample lessons, and learn how to log-into this free, online resource.
The many meetings and community gatherings that mark the start of a new year lay the foundation and set the tone for the year ahead. Here are five simple ways to address your school’s Episcopal identity with faculty, staff, and parents during the opening days and weeks of the school year.
The Rev. Canon Julian P. Bull offers a list of five gifts or values from our Episcopal heritage and their implications for curriculum and organizational development.
Episcopal early childhood and elementary programs can nurture the spiritual lives of children first by recognizing that young children are spiritual beings and then by giving their spiritual development the same attention and care as language development, motor skills, or social-emotional growth. How might we do this?
In the spring of 2014, the Faculty of Education of Cambridge University (UK) in collaboration with the Woolf Institute gathered religion teachers from religious and secular schools in the United States and the United Kingdom to explore the teaching of religion. The result is a new theoretical and practical framework that can be used by teachers in grades 2-12.
The ministry of a school chaplain, in Episcopal schools, is both a time-honored one, as well as one that currently exists amidst a great deal of change. Adopted by the NAES Governing Board in 2016, this document highlights the potential for school chaplaincy and serves as a resource for a school for the evaluation of the chaplain position, as a vehicle for the review of Episcopal identity, and an aid in formulating a position description and search tool for a new chaplain. This title is available only in bundles of 25 copies. Prices are per bundle.
Read More ยป Three sample orders of service for the installation of a new Head of School from: Christ Episcopal School, Rockville, MD; Grace Episcopal Day School, Kensington, MD; and St. Anne's School of Annapolis, Annapolis, MD.
Completing the search for a new head of school is only the beginning of a successful leadership transition. Once the appointment is announced an equally important phase begins: welcoming and supporting the school’s new leader. The head of school is the school board’s sole employee and, as such, it is the board’s responsibility to integrate the new head into the community. Here are some key considerations for a smooth and graceful transition.
Developed in 2013 by the Australian Anglican Schools Association and NAES, the Religious Studies Curriculum is a flexible curricular framework that provides key questions, skills, and outcomes in seven areas of study from early childhood through late adolescence: the Bible; World Religions; The Story of the Church; Ethics; Faith in Action (service learning); and Mediation, Prayer and Worship. After reviewing the attached PDF, members may contact NAES about access to sample units of study available on the Anglican Schools Association website.
The order of service for the December 17, 2012 prayer service at St. Anne's Episcopal School, Middletown, DE. The Episcopal elementary school service, organized by the Rev. Edgar Garland Taylor, chaplain, was held in response to the December 14, 2012 school shooting in Newtown, CT.
