Building Community Through School Success Teams by Mary K. McCullough, PhD; Victoria L. Graf, PhD; Brian Leung, PhD; Mary E. Stroud and Marco Orlando.  The School Success Team is a proven model for home, school, and community collaboration to promote student resiliency and success.  The team approach builds on student strengths, identifies obstacles to success, and promotes student achievement.  Learn the process of building community through the design and implementation of this powerful team approach.  2008.  88pp.  $18 member/$27 nonmember  ADM-21-1409 

Creating a Successful Auction: Maximizing Revenue and Building Relationships by Katie Magee Thiemann.  This book discusses how to create, implement and survive having a major auction as your school's signature fund-raising event.  2008.  59pp.  $10 member/$15 nonmember 

DEV-21-1415

Engaging Faith in the World: Exploring Catholic Social Teaching and Global Solidarity by Sr. Katherine Feely, SND.  Make Catholic social teaching and theology classes come alive through encounters with the global world we live in.  This text will equip teachers with a new resource on global solidarity, which includes dynamic lesson plans, resources, activities, and ways to pray that will help connect your students to the wider world around them.  Catholic social teaching provides countless points of entry into helping students make connections between the local and the global.  2007.  362pp.  $25  SDV-21-1408  

Imitating Jesus: A Service Journal for a Catholic Student, Revised edition.  This journal makes the Catholic student aware of the needs of others; makes service to others a part of everyday life.  2007.  44pp.  $1 member/$2 nonmember  CLR-22-1405 

Seasons of Holiness: A Parent Newsletter.  CD contains 18 newsletters for schools.  Nine newsletters for two complete school years.  2008.  $50 member/$75 nonmember  NEW-22-1423  

 Contemplative Leadership that Creates a Culture of Continuous Improvement by Merylann J. Schuttloffel, PhD.  The book introduces the integral components for creating a culture of continuous improvement within a school.  Contemplative practice is the decision making model.   2008.  52pp.  $10 member/$15 nonmember  ADM-22-1419 

Financing the Mission: A Profile of Catholic Elementary Schools in the United States 2007 by Robert R. Bimonte, FSC.  This biannual report provides benchmarks for schools and dioceses throughout the country.  The information in this book can prove beneficial in detecting trends and determining which areas need to be addressed for the continued financial viability of Catholic schools.  Areas presented school demographics, enrollment, and school income and expenses.  2008.  31pp.  $15 member/$23 nonmember  RES-22-1421  

Understanding and Teaching Today's Students by William Merriman and Augustine Nicoletti, FSC.  As Catholic educators, our work to prepare students for life and leadership within the Church and in the world.  In order to do so, we must have a clear understanding of our students as they are now as well as the future for which we are preparing them.  We must never forget that our task is to prepare them for their future, not our past.   2008.  175pp.  $15 member/$23 nonmember 
SDV-22-1410 

U. S. Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools 2007-2008 by Dale McDonald, PBVM, Ph.D.  This annual statistical report presents information about school enrollment and staffing patterns for grades PK-12.  An executive summary provides insight into the data along with highlights of the statistics and a historical perspective for comparison of past years and decades.  Updated annually.  2008.  51pp.  $15 member/$23 nonmember 
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SPICE: Endangered Species: Urban and Rural Catholic Schools edited by Regina M. Haney, and Joseph M. O'Keefe, SJ.  Catholic Bishops, school superintendents, diocesan chief financial officers, and other invited guests gathered to share ideas and forge a new direction for sustaining Catholic education in poor urban and rural areas.  Looking beyond finding additional funding for struggling schools and assisting educators in maximizing the use of the resources they have at hand, and providing educators with proven strategies for sustaining Catholic schools in economically struggling areas.  2007.  87pp.  $17 member/$26 nonmember  ADM-25-1373

Road to Success Revised Second Edition, The: by Jim Brennan, EdD.  An Orientation process for Catholic school teachers, this orientation process begins immediately after hiring and extends through the first year of teaching.  The program will help teachers feel at home in their schools, by completing a series of activities and meeting with a mentor, teachers will develop the familiarity and confidence needed to become active members of the school community.  A CD of the all worksheets is included.  2008.  63pp.  $20 member/$30 nonmember  ADM-22-1376 

Apostles' Creed, The: Articles of Faith for the 21st Century by Brian Schmisek, PhD.  This third book in the For Religious Educators series, which also includes Resources for Catholic Administrators and Religious Educators in the Knowledge of the Faith, addresses the Apostles' Creed.  As Catholics, we hold the Apostles’ Creed as a great gift summarizing the belief of the early apostles and calling us to share in that same faith.  Two thousand years later we still hold this Creed as an important summary of our faith and a link to the first apostles of the Church.  A very helpful study of the Apostles' Creed and its relation to the 21st century.  2008.  119pp.  $12 member/$18 nonmember  REL-24-1413

Catholic Preschools: Legal Issues Second Revised Edition by  Mary Angela Shaughnessy, SCN, JD, Ph.D.  This new revised edition updates the first edition published in 1990.  A basic question that must be answered is: "What is a preschool?"  A preschool is more then an "Add on" to an existing school.  The publication looks at law as it affects preschool programs and those conducted by nonpublic schools.  2008.  54pp.  $10 member/$15 nonmember 
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Extended Care Programs in Catholic Schools: Legal Issues Second Revised Edition by Mary Angela Shaughnessy, SCN, JD, Ph.D.  This new revised edition updates the first edition published in 1991.  Catholic schools and their administrators want to meet as many student needs as possible and appropriate for the school.  This publication answers questions that principals, teachers and parents will have about what can and cannot be done to meet these needs.  2008.  50pp.  $10 member/$15 nonmember  LEG-22-1417 

Ministry of Pastoral Guidance Counseling in Catholic Schools, The: by Robert J. Murray, OSA is a "pastoral" lens through which Catholic educational leaders and their guidance counselors might view the role of guidance counseling in Catholic schools not merely as a "profession" but also as a "ministry".  This lens is crucial if guidance counselors in Catholic schools are to promote the mission of Catholic education and their school's distinctive identity.  This seventh volume in the NCEA's Catholic Educational Leadership Monograph Series examines the school counselor's critical role in providing pastoral care. This much-overlooked role offers Catholic school principals and school counselors an opportunity to collaborate as spiritual leaders in developing a pastoral counseling program in Catholic schools. It is an invaluable tool for diocesan leaders who work with principals and counselors.  2008.  164pp.  $23 member/$35 nonmember  ADM-20-1414

Care Team Approach, The: A Problem-Solving Process for Effective School Change by Mary Fitzgibbons, PhD, Michael Mahon, MA, LPC, and Amy Maus, LCSW.  The care team is a comprehensive approach to managing difficult situations in the school setting and provides staff with the leadership, resources and support to reach a positive outcome that provides a win-win environment for students and staff.  It provides necessary information for teachers and is extremely thought provoking.  Real case studies mirror family dysfunction and student challenges that schools face each day.  2008.  165pp.  $22 member/$33 nonmember 
ADM-21-1378 

Nationwide Response to Renewing Our Commitment to Catholic Elementary & Secondary Schools in the Third Millennium, A, by the Department of Chief Administrators of Catholic Education.  Which summarizes the many efforts across the nation to address the critical issues facing Catholic schools, in the 2005 statement, Renewing Our Commitment, the bishops called for gatherings of educational, business and community leaders in the episcopal regions or in each state to address critical issues facing Catholic schools, this publication summarizes the results of such gatherings as well as last year's CACE Conversations convened during the NCEA Convention in Baltimore.  2007.  23pp.  $12 member/$18 nonmember  ADM-20-1382 

The latest issues in the The Board Member's Thumbnail Series:

The Thumbnails are a series of short, concise take-home pamphlets describing various aspects of the board's work.  Each Thumbnail gives background information followed by applications and questions for review and discussion. Thumbnails are available in convenient packs of 25 of a single title.  One pack should serve not only the board, but interested parents and educators as well. 1996-2007. Each pack of 25: $9 member/$14 nonmember  See page 18 for all available titles.