Making Room: Belonging as a Journey in Catholic Schools
This course invites educators, students, and school communities into a deeper understanding of belonging as a journey rooted in Catholic faith. Grounded in Scripture and Catholic Social Teaching, it explores what it means to make room for one another by honouring dignity, attending to relationship, and practicing hospitality in everyday school life. Rather than beginning with programs or solutions, the course begins with noticing how belonging is experienced and how the Gospel invites us to see, listen, and stay present with one another over time. Participants reflect on access, inclusion, and belonging as spiritual responsibilities that shape daily decisions, shared spaces, and relationships, calling Catholic schools to become communities where each person is known, valued, and able to participate in ways that honour their humanity.
Engage the Circle
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Engage the Circle offers resources designed to support shared reflection and conversation across school communities. These materials help translate the stories and ideas from the course into collective practice, inviting leaders, educators, students, and families to learn together.
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This space emphasizes dialogue, listening, and shared responsibility, recognizing that belonging is not formed alone, but in relationship.
Leadership Reflection Briefs
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Throughout the course, optional Leadership Reflection Briefs are included for those who hold formal leadership responsibility. These reflections are not guides for immediate action, but invitations to notice how structures, habits, and decisions shape belonging over time.​​
Foundational Briefs
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Belonging Is Not An Outcome (📄PDF): This brief invites leaders to reflect on how attempts to measure, implement, or complete belonging can quietly undermine dignity when accountability eclipses faithfulness.
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When Care Becomes Control (📄PDF): This brief invites leaders to reflect on how protective instincts, when carried alone, can unintentionally narrow participation and shift care away from shared accompaniment.
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Efficiency Shapes Belonging (📄PDF): This brief invites leaders to notice how time pressure and urgency shape whose voices are heard, whose concerns are addressed, and how discernment is practiced within decision-making.
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Story-Aligned Briefs
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