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  • Path to Newman Guide Recommended Status

    Steps to Faithful Catholic Education Excellence

  • EMBRACE

    1

    Embrace the Principles of Catholic Education

    Ensure your school leaders and employees embrace the Principles of Catholic Education, a synthesis of key principles in Vatican documents on Catholic education.

    Use the Newman Guide StART Tool to reflect upon your school’s activities and assess whether they conform to the Principles.

  • ADOPT

    2

    Adopt Newman Guide Standards

    The Newman Guide Policy Standards address key functions and policies across Catholic education and are the basis for Newman Guide recognition.

  • ACHIEVE

    3

    Achieve Newman Guide Recommended Status

    When ready, apply for Newman Guide recognition. The Cardinal Newman Society staff will review your school and work with leaders to fully meet each requirement. You’ll be very proud of the result!
    Newman Guide Recognition – Newman Guide Schools]

    Renew your Newman Guide Recommended status every five years. The renewal process is usually much faster than a first-time application.

  • THRIVE

    4

    Thrive from the benefits of Newman Guide recognition

    Upon approval, The Cardinal Newman Society will promote your Newman Guide Recommended school as a model of faithful Catholic education.

    The Newman Guide Network helps strengthen and protect Newman Guide Recommended institutions through leader working groups, webinars, conferences, collaborative projects, shared costs and resources, and defense against threats to fidelity and religious freedom. It forges relationships across all levels of Newman Guide education, allowing your institution to grow, build, and thrive.

  • EMBRACE

    1

    Embrace the Principles of Catholic Education

    Ensure your school leaders and employees embrace the Principles of Catholic Education, a synthesis of key principles in Vatican documents on Catholic education.

    Use the Newman Guide StART Tool to reflect upon your school’s activities and assess whether they conform to the Principles.

  • ADOPT

    2

    Adopt Newman Guide Standards

    The Newman Guide Policy Standards address key functions and policies across Catholic education and are the basis for Newman Guide recognition.

  • ACHIEVE

    3

    Achieve Newman Guide Recommended Status

    When ready, apply for Newman Guide recognition. The Cardinal Newman Society staff will review your school and work with leaders to fully meet each requirement. You’ll be very proud of the result!
    Newman Guide Recognition – Newman Guide Schools]

    Renew your Newman Guide Recommended status every five years. The renewal process is usually much faster than a first-time application.

  • THRIVE

    4

    Thrive from the benefits of Newman Guide recognition

    Upon approval, The Cardinal Newman Society will promote your Newman Guide Recommended school as a model of faithful Catholic education.

    The Newman Guide Network helps strengthen and protect Newman Guide Recommended institutions through leader working groups, webinars, conferences, collaborative projects, shared costs and resources, and defense against threats to fidelity and religious freedom. It forges relationships across all levels of Newman Guide education, allowing your institution to grow, build, and thrive.

Path to Newman Guide Recommended Status

Step 1. Embrace the Principles of Catholic Education

  • Ensure your school leaders and employees embrace the Principles of Catholic Education, a synthesis of key principles in Vatican documents on Catholic education.
  • Use the Newman Guide StART Tool to reflect upon your school’s activities and assess whether they conform to the Principles.

Step 2. Adopt Newman Guide Standards

  • The Newman Guide Policy Standards address key functions and policies across Catholic education and are the basis for Newman Guide recognition
  • The Catholic Curriculum Standards guide curriculum development for Catholic schools: adopt them entirely, by section, or conform them to your existing standards.
  • The Standards for Christian Anthropology, developed with Ruah Woods Press, guide education on the Theology of the Body.

Step 3. Achieve Newman Guide Recommended Status

  • When ready, apply for Newman Guide recognition. The Cardinal Newman Society staff will review your school and work with leaders to fully meet each requirement. You’ll be very proud of the result!
  • Renew your Newman Guide Recommended status every five years. The renewal process is usually much faster than a first-time application.

Step 4.  Thrive from the benefits of Newman Guide recognition

  • Upon approval, The Cardinal Newman Society will promote your Newman Guide Recommended school as a model of faithful Catholic education.
  • The Newman Guide Network helps strengthen and protect Newman Guide Recommended institutions through leader working groups, webinars, conferences, collaborative projects, shared costs and resources, and defense against threats to fidelity and religious freedom. It forges relationships across all levels of Newman Guide education, allowing your institution to grow, build, and thrive.

Experience the benefits of faithful Catholic education:

Explore schools, colleges and graduate programs recognized in The Newman Guide!

“Catholic education is above all a question of communicating Christ, of helping to form Christ in the lives of others…”

Every person has a special calling from God… a unique role in this life to serve God and others that no one else can fill.

As Catholics, we want to:

  • receive the grace to hear that calling;
  • respond to that calling with a resounding ‘yes,’
  • and joyfully live out that calling.

In a world full of distractions, confusing messages, and a lack of hope, it can be difficult for Catholic students to hear their particular calling. A truly Catholic education prioritizes the souls of students above all else.

Through a faithful Catholic education, students can be set up for success to lead holy and truly fulfilling lives by embracing their calling from God.

John Henry Newman

“God knows me and calls me by my name.… God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another.”

  • 2016

    Milestone 1

  • 2017

    Milestone 2

    2017

  • 2018

    Milestone 3