There are few things our sisters love more than hearing from former students and walking down memory lane. If you were taught by a Dominican Sister of Hope, Newburgh, or Fall River/Saint Catherine of Siena, this Teacher Appreciation Day is the time to let us know!...
The title seems too obvious: of course teachers respond to kids. In fact, that’s how they spend their days: responding to the qualms, questions, joys, tribulations, and cries of many kids. However, when talking about her thirty-plus-year tenure as a principal and...
It’s no secret that dealing with parents can be just as important for teachers as dealing with students. And sometimes, the parents can be harder to deal with (but you didn’t hear it from us!). Today, Dominican Sister of Hope and career teacher/Principal Maryann...
It’s likely that, as a teacher, you have student work on your walls in addition to at least one brightly-rimmed bulletin board. In her classrooms, Sister Maryann Ronneburger, a Dominican Sister of Hope with a thirty-plus-year tenure as a principal and teacher, did,...
What was your first mission? My first ministry was teaching. I taught for thirty-seven years. I taught third and fourth grade in Fall River, MA. Then I went to Plattsburgh, NY, and I taught first grade (I went from fourth grade to first grade; I thought I was going to...
