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National Standards and Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools: An Effective Tool for School Accreditation

This research study investigated Palestinian mothers' perceptions about online learning due to the sudden shift to online learning under COVID-19. The study focuses on the time period: March 5, 2020 to August, 2020 before the new school year 2020/2021 began. The primary purpose was to reveal the challenges mothers of children in grades 1-4 faced while helping their children learn at home. The researcher distributed an online questionnaire to a sample of mothers in Ramallah area, Palestine to which 131 mothers responded. Out of that sample, 8 mothers were interviewed. Results indicate that mothers found online learning extremely challenging, especially mothers who worked. Although they realized this was an emergency situation, they recounted a lack of preparation, a lack of technology, ineffective, uninteresting, and demotivating online instruction, and a lack of overall Ministry preparation for such a crisis. Recommendations are offered to minimize such challenges in the future under the same or similar situations.

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Palestinian Mothers' Perceptions about Online Learning at Public and Private Elementary Schools during COVID-19: Challenges and Recommendations

Faith-based Identity and Curriculum in Catholic Schools

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COVID-19 Crisis, Impacts on Catholic Schools, and Potential Responses: Introduction

Abstract This article is an exploratory study aimed at analysing engagement and sentiment on Twitter of the tweets published about Pope Francis’s actions with regard to Covid-19. In this context, the analysis also focuses on the beginning weeks of the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the Covid-19 disease. One of the most important events held by Pope Francis was the extraordinary moment of prayer in time of pandemic in St. Peter’s Square, with the Urbi et Orbi blessing on 27 March 2020. The methodology used quantitative and qualitative techniques based on a strategic sample of English and Spanish tweets published between March and December 2020 with specific keywords and hashtags. The results place value on the importance of Pope Francis’s message, the value of the Urbi et Orbi blessing at the beginning of the pandemic and the symbolic impact of the content, images, and interaction in the communication shared on social media, specifically on Twitter.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23753234.2022.2040372?needAccess=true

The message of Pope Francis in time of pandemic: Engagement and sentiment on Twitter

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Looking at Catholic schools’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching Principles

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Myra Rosen-Reynoso

Papers

Looking at Catholic schools’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching Principles

Lessons From the Field: Catholic School Educators and COVID-19.