The CERB is a resource that collects and vets resources for Catholic teachers to use in the Catholic School context. The resources available will be updated regularly. They are intended to be easily accessible and to be used by teachers on a daily basis or on an as-needed basis to support their classroom work. It is a one stop place for Catholic activities that can be tied to Catholic curriculum.
Financial Literacy and Religious Education
In 2010, the Ontario Working Group on Financial Literacy articulated a vision: Ontario students will have the skills and knowledge to take responsibility for managing their personal financial well-being with confidence, competence and a compassionate awareness of the work around them.
Sacramental Preparation for Students with Special Needs
This resource will assist educators in providing appropriate preparation for the sacraments to students with special needs, foster an attitude of inclusion, raise the awareness of educators in regards to available resources, and provide support to educators and parish priests for sacramental preparation at the school level for students with special needs.
21st Century Shepherds: Stewards of Student Data
21st Century Shepherds was created to address the very pressing need of providing educators with both the knowledge of their moral, legal and ethical obligations around student data and providing a toolkit for evaluating the relative safety of the tool for student use.
Catholic Competencies: A New Perspective on the Catholic Graduate Expectations
This digital resource refreshes the vision of the Catholic Graduate Expectations and makes more explicit connections to the Global Competencies (GCs). In doing so, it aligns the CGEs with the GCs and creates resources for teachers to better approach the holistic formation of every student, given the ever-changing, complex world of today.
Catholic Media Authorship
Catholic Media Authorship provides an authentic context in which media can be leveraged as a mode to shape, explore and enable equity and culturally responsive teaching and learning in Catholic schools.
Faith and Science in Our Catholic Schools
This resource explains some of the most common “hot spots” where people find conflict between science and Catholicism.
Catholicity, Communication, Computers and Math
CCC & Math focuses on infusing Catholicism into the Communications, Computer Technology and Math courses while it combines the Mathematics and Technology courses. The resource contains instructional videos organized in playlists by topic, that will continue to be updated, as well as notes and walk-throughs for every lesson organized in folders by topic that are continually updated.
The Catholic Film Maker
This resource provides educators with an authentic context to digital video production that provides a discourse for students to live their faith and Catholic advocacy through: Documentary Film, Short Narrative and Music Video production all centered around specific Gospel values.
The Catholic Film Reader: Reading and Making Film/Media Text with Meaning
Within Catholic Education authentic opportunities to analyze media text through a faith lens are a means to engage our students as discerning believers. It is with the goal to embrace media as a critical and urgent literacy that the Catholic Film Reader examines popular Hollywood film text through the lens of core gospel values.
We Are All Teachers of Our Faith: Infusing Catholicity into Secondary School Courses
One of the core elements of authentic Catholic Education is the presence of a Catholic worldview in all aspects of school life.
Rich Performance Tasks for Secondary Religion Courses
Student engagement is always a challenge at secondary, especially in Religious Education Courses. Assessment and evaluation practices continue to evolve in light of ongoing research.
Secondary Resources
The CCC has produced a number of electronic resources related to secondary courses.
Catholic Curriculum Maps Foundational Support for Catholic Teachers
Halton Catholic District School Board generously has shared the work done in the development of the Catholic Curriculum Core Maps Grade 9-12. This is a continuation of the Core Maps developed with the CCC for the elementary panel.
Writing Catholic Curriculum Course 2006
This resource is intended to assist writers who will be working on writing projects/units.
Sacramental Preparation for Students with Special Needs – A Guide for Catholic Educators
Sacramental Preparation for Students with Special Needs – A Guide for Catholic Educators Audience: Grade K-12 Descriptor: This resource will assist educators in providing appropriate preparation for the sacraments to students with special needs, foster an attitude of inclusion, raise the awareness of educators in regards to available resources, and provide support to educators and parish priests for sacramental preparation …
Gifts of Love – A Collection of Prayer Services 2003
This resource assists educators in fostering a spiritual experience within the Catholic school community.
Called to Change the World
Whatever you do – you do unto me is a rich Catholic resource which was developed in partnership by the Catholic Curriculum Corporation and Free The Children.
Secondary Critical Thinking Tasks and the Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations
Secondary Critical Thinking Tasks and the Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations provides lessons for secondary school teachers.
The Ethical and Responsible Use of Information and Communication Technology – A Guideline for all Stakeholders in Catholic Education
The Ethical and Responsible Use of Information and Communication Technology – A Guideline for all Stakeholders in Catholic Education will provide intermediate and secondary teachers with lessons to deal with this very current and critical topic.
Equity and Inclusion: From the Lens of the Catholic Social Teachings
Equity and Inclusion: From the Lens of the Catholic Social Teachings is a classroom resource which provides teachers with nine frameworks with Guiding Questions related to Equity and Inclusion, The Ontario Catholic Graduate Expectations, Critical Literacy and the Catholic Social Teachings.
Leprosy in the World Today: Answering the Call to Care
Leprosy in the World Today: Answering the Call to Care is resource developed by the CCC in partnership with The Leprosy Mission Canada organization.
NEW – Secondary Footprints
Footprints: The Ontario Catholic Graduate Expectations in the 21st Century is an online resource of 7, 4-hour modules for upper Elementary students and 7, 4-hour modules for Secondary students.
Sacramental Preparation for Students with Special Needs – A Guide for Catholic Educators
This resource will assist educators in providing appropriate preparation for the sacraments to students with special needs, foster an attitude of inclusion, raise the awareness of educators in regards to available resources, and provide support to educators and parish priests for sacramental preparation at the school level for students with special needs.