Hi, I'm Courtney!

If you want to equip your students to thrive academically and spiritually, you're in the right place!

I help classroom teachers, just like you, help their students learn, grow and thrive academically and spiritually by providing resources, tools and strategies support you in teaching the faith, managing your class and helping your students succeed across subject areas. Whether you’re trying to find resources to engage and inspire your students towards active faith lives or looking for help with your classroom management and lighten your teacher load, I’m here for you!

I know the Power of an Authentically Catholic Education.

But it wasn't always like this...

As a public school student growing up and a public school teacher for the first part of my career, I often found my life somewhat disintegrated. I loved my faith and lived it actively, leading in children’s ministry, youth ministry, teaching faith formation classes and working in Catholic camping for several years; but, I was saddened that I couldn’t fully share the beauty, joy and peace that comes from a life of faith with my public school students.

After a happy and successful start to my career in public education and a couple significant life changes – getting married, moving from Canada to the United States – I found myself with a fresh opportunity to pursue teaching in a Catholic school. Immediately, I could see the incredible opportunity that being a teacher in a Catholic school provided for teaching the whole student, helping each one to grow and thrive spiritually and academically became my goal.

As I worked toward this goal, I struggled to find the resources I needed to easily integrate the faith across the curriculum (ELA & Social Studies teacher here!), and to take religion out of the textbook and into the daily lives of my students. The supplemental teaching resources I found often weren’t designed with the needs of a classroom teacher in mind.

Catholic Education done well requires teaching and ministry to occur simultaneously. So, using all that I had learned working in ministry and Catholic camping, coupled with my training and experience a classroom teacher, I decided to create my own resources to bring the faith alive for my students. I wanted to inspire them to live integrated lives, growing and thriving academically and spiritually. After seeing the positive impact this approach has had on my own students and taking the idea to prayer, I decided to begin Sharing the Teacher’s Gift!

We all do well if we can. Teachers do best when they’re supported, equipped and appreciated. Students do well when their teachers do well. My hope is that this little place on the internet will provide you with support and encouragement, along with some resources and strategies, to help you as you use your unique gifts to teach and minister to your students, giving them the gift of faith, and inspiring them to use their own knowledge and talents for God’s glory!

Some Days the Struggle is Real.

That’s why I want to help you lighten the teacher load.

There are so many things on your plate as a teacher, not to mention whatever else you have going on, that it can be overwhelming. Trying to juggle all the demands the teaching profession can place on you as you try to inspire students to grow in faith, while still trying to show up well for the rest of your life, can be challenging – especially, if you’re new or feel like you’re alone.

I want to help make your days a little lighter and teaching the faith easier, equipping you and supporting you, so that you feel prepared and at ease in the classroom, ready to take on whatever may come your way.

It’s totally possible to approach your teaching days with peace, calm and joy, prepared and equipped to make a difference in the lives of your students. Sometimes all it takes is a small change to see a big impact. I know because I’ve been there (in the stress and in the calm).

And, I want to help you with resources & strategies that will let you spend your time in the classroom sharing your gifts and inspiring your students to grow in knowledge and faith!

That’s why I created the Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Prayer (and, Sharing the Teacher’s Gift to be honest), so your days can be a little bit lighter and a whole lot easier. Let’s do this together!

Finding resources for teaching
the faith shouldn't be hard.

If you're anything like me, you want to...

Help your students learn, grow and thrive academically and spiritually.
Have a classroom environment that is steeped in faith, in which respect, love of God and love of neighbor are apparent in their daily interactions with faculty, staff, guests, and one another.
Easily access high quality resources designed with the classroom teacher in mind, so that you can teach the faith well without adding more to your already full plate as a teacher.

That’s why I created the Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Prayer (and, this little place on the internet), so you can begin anchoring your days in God’s grace and focus on using your unique gifts to make the world a better place, one student at a time!

Encouragement.

“And his gifts were that some should be…teachers, for the equipment of the saints, for the work of ministry, for building up the Body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of faith and to the knowledge of the Son of God [.]”
-Ephesians 4:11-15

Catholic education is best done when faith and reason are integrated in the pursuit of knowledge. As Catholic teachers, we’re blessed that we don’t have to do this great work alone!

As you strive to use the gifts God has given you to inspire your students to grow in faith, knowledge, love of God and charity toward one another, my hope is that Sharing the Teacher’s Gift will provide you with the support and resources you need to thrive in your ministry, as an educator and in building up the kingdom of God, without adding more to your already over-filled plate as a teacher.

Grab your free copy of the Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Prayer today for easy-to-implement strategies for helping your students learn, grow and thrive spiritually and academically with God’s grace!

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