Week of June 15-19

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🙏Prayers and Spiritual Guidance

Prayer for the End of the School Year

God of wisdom,

We thank You for all the gifts You have given us throughout this school year.

We praise You for giving us life, for saving us in Christ and for choosing us to be Your people.

As we come to the end of this school year, we voice our gratitude for the good things You have done in us, and we praise You for all who have shared in the work of this school.

We ask You to bless them in Your love and give them refreshment and peace.

We praise YOu, God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns forever and ever.

Amen.


Fathers in Our Lives

We give our thanks, Creator God, for the fathers in our lives.

Fatherhood does not come with a manuel, and reality teaches us that some fathers excel while others fail.  We ask for Your blessings for them all and forgiveness where it is needed.

This Father's Day we remember the many sacrifices fathers make for their children and families, and the ways - both big and small - they lift children to achieve dreams thought beyond reach.

So too, we remember all those who have helped fill the void when fathers pass early or are absent; grandfathers and uncles, brothers and cousins, teachers, pastors and coaches, and the women of our families.

For those who are fathers, we ask for wisdom and humility in the face of the task of parenting.  Give them the strength to do well by their children and by You.  In Your Holy name, O God, we pray.

Amen.

Source:  cpco.on.ca/prayers




June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Prayer of Trust to the Sacred Heart (in Times of Stress)

Holy Heart of Jesus, Sweet Sanctuary of rest,
bring peace to my soul and settle my spirit,
especially in the matter of_________________.
I vow to place all of my worries and fears
into the wound of your Sacred Heart,
there to be tended to in accordance with your perfect will,
which desires only the best and highest good.
Your love alone is enough, and I surrender to it;
clinging to the hope of a swift resolution
and trusting with confidence in all of your promises.
Amen.



Daily Reflections

These daily reflections are a great way to start your day. Feel free to share them with your students on your class VLE.

Monday, June 15 -“Sand & Waters” CARFLEO
Tuesday, June 16 -“Prayer of St. Teresa” CARFLEO
Wednesday, June 17 -“For Good” CARFLEO
Thursday, June 18- “Magnificat” CARFLEO
Friday, June 19 - “You’ll Be In My Heart” CARFLEO

😇Check out the 3 Minute Retreats on the Loyola Press Website.

Here are the Weekly Prayers for Week 11 of Distance Learning.


💻EdTech Support and Resources

Wakelet

Wakelet is a curating and social bookmarking tool that allows you to save, organize and share content across the web.  You can save articles, videos, images, Tweets, and so much more.  Wakelet allows you to save resources that you find on the web, which isn't always possible with Google Drive.  It also helps to avoid overwhelming your bookmark bar in Chrome.

What's even more great about Wakelet is that it has a Chrome extension that allows you to save anything you find online to any of our collections that you create in Wakelet.

How can you use Wakelet in your Teaching?

You can use Wakelet to gather online resources pertaining to your subject matter or a unit that you are teaching into a collection.  You can choose to share your collection with others in your department or have your department collaborate on a shared Wakelet collection for a particular teaching unit.

How to create a collection in Wakelet




How to get Started with Wakelet


Other great Wakelet resources:


How to Create Your Own Interactive Bitmoji Scene using Google Slides

Here is something you may wish to create over the summer for your new classes in September.  During these school closures, these interactive Bitmoji scenes have been all the craze! So, if you are feeling inspired to create something new this summer, perhaps this is something you may wish to work on to introduce yourself to students in September or to upload to your VLE.





📚Library Resources


2020 Summer Reading List for Teachers


The following are available in full-text in the EBSCO eBook Collection.  
(Username: srch; Password:  @8101Leslie)

  1. Education of African Canadian Children:  Critical Perspectives by Abdi A.
  2. Contesting White Supremacy: School Segregation, Anti-Racism, and the Making of Chinese Canadians by Timothy John Stanley
  3. Praying with the Jesuits:  Finding God in All Things by Charles Healey
  4. Creating Space:  My Life & Work in Indigenous Education by Verna Kirkness
  5. A Still Quiet Place:  A Mindfulness Program for Teaching Children & Adolescents to Ease Stress & Difficult Emotions by Amy Saltzman
  6. Learning to Breathe:  A Mindfulness Curriculum for Adolescents to Cultivate Emotion Regulations, Attention, & Performance by Patricia C. Broderick
Margaret Wilson Library @ the Ontario College of Teachers

Did you know that you can search for subject specific resources through the Ontario College of Teachers library?  You can even take out books and have them delivered to your home for free.  They will also pay the postage for you to return the books back to them when you are done reading.

If you are looking for resources to support your subject or for your own PD this summer, this is a good place to start.

Teacher-Support Website

The St. Robert Teacher-Support Website is updated on an ongoing basis.  Check out what is available for your department.  Visit the tech-support page for instant help.  This site is accessible to students so feel free to post links to any page of it for your students to have easy access to something you found useful.  If you have something you want added, ask away!


🧠Staff Wellness

Teachers Should Make a Billion Dollars

Jimmy Fallon pays tribute to teachers with song. I hope this brings you some good cheer!


Feeling Overwhelmed during this Time of Year?

June is always such a busy and stressful time of year for all of us, and distance learning doesn't change this.  Listen to what Father Mike Schmitz has to say about feeling overwhelmed.  "Done is better than perfect."




Health & Wellbeing Summer Reading List 2020


Here are a list of books you may wish to read this summer to help support your health and wellbeing:



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