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Diocese of Sacramento |
Catholic
Links
The Diocese of Sacramento website contains information about our Diocese, the parishes and their locations, and links to other Catholic sites.
California Catholic Conference is a rich resource containing information about pending legislation and the California Bishops stance on each bill.
The Parochial Athletic League has a website with information about PAL sports (boys and girls), calendar of events, tournament dates, etc.
Public
Information for Parents, Students, Teachers, and
Administrators
NOTE: These links are provided "As Is." No endorsement or recommendation by the Catholic School Department or the Diocese of Sacramento should be assumed or implied by the presence of these links on this website. The information may be helpful, but does not imply Diocesan policy.
Imagine... an exciting periodical for middle and high school students who want to take control of their learning and get the most out of their precollege years. Published five times a year by Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth, Imagine provides insights, information, and solid counseling to young, motivated readers. For more information, click here.
LDOnLine is an interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers and children. The In Depth section contains many valuable resources. Be sure to follow the link "Social Skills" to find information about preventing bullying.
The Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice offers information and links to help children and youth with emotional and behavioral problems. They also have a goal to help communities create schools that promote emotional well-being, effective instruction, and safe learning. One of the resources they offer is "Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools" (in several formats).
The California Department of Education has a lot of statistical information, information about the API and HSEE, curriculum information, laws pertaining to education, etc. While this information can be valuable, some of it DOES NOT apply to Catholic schools. For example, most of the legislation linked to this page applies to government schools only.
Locate your Senators, Representative, Assembly Persons online through this link. You will need to know your 9 digit zip code. If you don't input the full nine digits, you will be sent to the US Postal Service web page to locate your zip code by your address. Links to elected officials include their e-mail addresses (where available) making it easy to contact your elected representatives and let them know how you feel about bills going through the legislative process (AB 1625 for example?). Another source for California legislators (Senate and Assembly) is Your Legislature - and official California Government site. Here you only need your 5 digit zip code. Unfortunately, if the zip code encompasses more than one representative, all will be listed.
FightForKids.com is a website designed to promote the health, well-being and better education of children the world over.
Curriculum
A Users Guide to the Declaration of Independence. Here is a pretty good site for studies about the Declaration of Independence including some of the founding documents.
The End of the Revolutionary War: It was on October 19, 1781, that the American Revolutionary War ended and the process of the creation of the United States of America began. John Adams of Massachusetts became the first Ambassador to the Court of Saint James and it was he, along with Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, who signed the Paris Peace Treaty of 1783. This treaty gave formal recognition to the U.S. and established U.S. boundaries (to the Mississippi River, tripling the size of the new country), specified certain fishing rights (keeping Georges Bank open to Massachusetts fisherman), allowed creditors of each country to be paid by citizens of the other, restored the rights and property of Loyalists, opened up the Mississippi River to citizens of both nations, and provided for evacuation of all British forces.
- If you'd like to read the terms of Cornwallis's' surrender, go here:
- For the Paris Peace Treaty, go here:
SCANS Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills. In 1991 and 1992, the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) called on the American educational system, from pre- school through post-graduate, to attend to the responsibilities graduates assume as workers, parents, and citizens. Asserting that there is more to life than earning a living, SCANS also insisted that the following set of foundation skills and competencies are essential for all in the modern world...
The CEO Forum on Education and Technology was founded in the fall of 1996 to help ensure that America's schools effectively prepare all students to be contributing citizens and productive workers in the 21st Century. To meet this objective, the Forum will issue an annual assessment of the nation's progress toward integrating technology into American classrooms through the year 2000. The CEO Forum's Interactive School Technology and Readiness (STaR) Chart is a self-assessment tool designed to provide schools with the information they need to better integrate technology into their educational process. Here, you can complete an online, multiple-choice questionnaire that will provide you with instant feedback on how well your school is doing in this process. The STaR Chart identifies and defines four school profiles ranging from the "Early Tech" school with little or no technology to the "Target Tech" school that provides a model for the integration and innovative use of education technology. The STaR Chart is not intended to be a measure of any particular school's technology and readiness, but rather to serve a benchmark against which every school can assess and track its own progress.
The primary goal of the International Society for Technology in Education's (ISTE) National Education Technology Standards (NETS) Project is to enable stakeholders in PreK-12 education to develop national standards for educational uses of technology that facilitate school improvement in the United States. The NETS Project will work to define standards for students, integrating curriculum technology, technology support, and standards for student assessment and evaluation of technology use. NETS for students can be found here. NETS for teachers can be found here.
Educational
Contests
National Geographic Bee: State-level Bees are held in the spring, and the winner of each state Bee proceeds to the national competition. The 55 state and territory winners meet at National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington, D.C., for the national competition. The number of contestants is narrowed to ten finalists, who compete for a $25,000 college scholarship. The second- and third-place winners receive $15,000 and $10,000 scholarships, respectively. Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek moderates the final competition. Contact your school's principal to see if your school is participating in this contest.
United States Academic Decathlon: This decathlon is a team competition wherein students match their intellects with students from other schools. Students are tested in ten categories: Art, Economics, Essay, Interview, Language and Literature, Mathematics, Science, Socials Science, Speech, and Super Quiz. What I think is really interesting about this competition is that a team is made up of nine members: three "A" students, three "B" students, and three "C" students (GPA below 3.0). Contact your school's principal to see if your school is participating in this contest. The Diocese of Sacramento does have a Diocesan Academic Decathlon, and the winning team goes on to the Diocesan state finals held in Sacramento or Los Angeles.
General
Assistance
Microsoft Download Site - This link will take you to Microsoft's download page where you can download the latest version of Internet Explorer for your computer.
Adobe Acrobat Reader is free software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The software is available for all platforms and can be downloaded from the link above. Many of our school forms are being converted to PDF files and will be linked to this page.
Computers for Learning: Did you know that there is a federal program that will pass on computers to schools when they are upgraded? The Computers for Learning program will provide computers for public, private, and parochial schools and home schools, serving pre-kindergarten through grade 12 students. Schools and educational nonprofits must also be located within the United States of America or its territories to be eligible.
Special consideration for computer donations will be given to schools and educational nonprofits in Federal empowerment zones and enterprise communities. As you may imagine, the computers aren't going to be the latest and greatest, but it might be worth it to register and see what is available.
"Because
of rapid technological progress, a school today must have
access to equipment that, at times, is complex and
expensive. This is not a luxury; it is simply what a school
needs to carry out its role as a educational institution."
The Religious Dimension of Education in a Catholic
School, 29, The Congregation for Catholic Education,
1988