Marianist Network of Schools

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Marianist Network of Schools

• Marianist Educational Consortium(MEC)
• Schools sponsored by the Society of Mary.

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Sponsorship

• Reason for sponsorship one means for carrying
  out the Marianist Mission
• participating in the on-going Incarnation
  giving birth to and nurturing Christ.
• Provide opportunity for students, faculty, staff
  to be formed in faith through the school community

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Contact

• Father Tim Kenney, S.M.
• Marianist Provincialate
• 4425 West Pine Blvd.
• St. Louis, MO 63108-2301
• 314-533-1207
• EMAIL tkenney_at_sm-usa.org

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Contact

• Bro. John Habjan, S.M.
• Marianist Provincialate
• 4425 West Pine Blvd.
• St. Louis, MO 63108-2301
• 314-533-1207
• EMAIL jhabjan_at_sm-usa.org

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Contact

• Eugene Meyerpeter, S.M.
• Cure of Ars Community
• 1311 S. Lindbergh Blvd.
• St. Louis, MO 63122
• 314-965-0727
• emeyerpeter_at_sm-usa.org

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Preamble

• The time has come to redefine the relationships
  between schools in the Marianist tradition and
  the Society of Mary, Province of USA.

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Overview

• It is vital to those relationships and the
  consequent Marianist impact on the schools for
  this redefinition to take place.

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Vision Statement

• Foundational Spirituality
• Imaging Mary, who at Gods initiative gave birth
  to and nourished Jesus
• Fostering faith through communitarian means
• Pledging oneself and ones community to Christs
  mission

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Mission of MEC

• To deliberately and consciously assist schools in
  the Marianist tradition.

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Instruction vs Education

• Instruction consists in the development of skills
  and the transference of knowledge
• Education consists in the cultivation of habits
  of mind and heart, the integrated maturation of
  the potential body and soul, all informed,
  animated permeated by the Christian spirit.

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Chaminade and Education

• Instruction exists for the sake of education
• Through instruction Marianist schools seek to
  educate
• Chaminade chose schools as a most effective
  means of transforming society
• Chaminade was convinced that faith development
  are best carried out in a community context

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Values and goals of the network

• Five Characteristics of Marianist Education
• Educate for formation in faith
• Provide an integral, quality education
• Educate in family spirit
• Educate for service, justice and peace
• Educate for adaptation and change

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Definition

• Sponsorship agreement between Sponsored school
  and the Society of Mary defines the relationship
  (commitment and responsibility to each other)
  between the sponsored school and the Society of
  Mary.

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Sponsorship Agreement

• An official document signed by the Society of
  Mary and official representatives of the school
  and/or diocese
• Both parties bind themselves to the elements of
  sponsorship and officially promise to work
  together towards the ends of the purpose and
  spirit of the agreement

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Advantages of Sponsorship

• To the Society of Mary
• To the Sponsored school

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Advantages to a school

• Public identification of the SM with the school
• Participation in the spiritual and educational
  tradition of the SM
• Participation in the Marianist Educational
  Consortium
• Participation in MEC and its educational programs
• Availability of members and communities of the
  Province and Universities for collaboration in
  the sponsored schools mission

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Advantages to a school(cont)

• Eligibility for financial support by the SM for
  sponsored schools
• Eligibility for Marianist scholarships at the
  Marianist universities
• Participation in an international network of
  schools sponsored by the world-wide Society of
  Mary

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Advantages to the SM

• Sponsored school is a ministry
• - that participates in the educational mission of
  the Church for the intellectual, social, moral
  and religious transformation of society
• - for working with people of all ages and
  different cultures especially youth, for their
  formation in Christian witness and leadership
• - that supports the dialogue between faith and
  culture

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Advantages to the SM (cont)

• enabling members of the SM to work corporately
  with one another and other members of the
  Marianist family
• for inviting persons to become members of the
  Marianist family, lay and religious
• for serving the poor through education and
  formation of persons and communities in justice,
  peace and service

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Expectations

• Of the Society of Mary regarding the Sponsored
  school
• Of the Sponsored school regarding the Society of
  Mary

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Expectations of the Society of Mary

• Explicit statement of the Marianist nature and
  mission of the school in official documents such
  as the Mission Statement, Faculty Handbook,
  Student Handbook, Statement of School Philosophy

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Expectations of the Society of Mary (Continued)

• Participation in the Marianist Education
  Consortium through attendance at its meetings and
  cooperation with its projects
• Commitment to develop yearly programs of
  formation with all school constituencies around
  the CME (i.e. new teachers and staffBoard
  members)
• Active participation in the Marianist LIFE
  program guided by an adult moderator

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Expectations of the Society of Mary (Continued)

• An active Local Implementation Team(LIT) that
  meets regularly each year to review and carry out
  the yearly goals and Action plan for fostering
  the CME
• An on-going communication between the Director of
  Education and the school administration

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Expectations of the Society of Mary (cont)

• An involvement of at least one vowed Marianist,
  approved by the Director of Education, on the
  schools Board
• An annual invitation from the school to the
  Director of Education or his Assistant to meet
  with various constituencies of the community and
  to be a resource in the schools commitment to
  foster the CME

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Expectations of the Society of Mary with regard
to selection of CEO

• The Director of Education will appoint a vowed
  Marianist to be on the search committee in the
  selection of the CEO
• The Director Education will be invited to
  recommend a qualified Vowed or Lay Marianist for
  the position of CEO

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Expectations of the Society of Mary with regard
to selection of CEO

• The CEO of a Diocesan High School in the
  Marianist tradition will be appointed by the
  Diocese only after consultation with the
  Assistant for Education
• The CEO of a province owned High School will be
  appointed by the process specified in its
  corporate charter with the Provincial Council
  exercising its corporate role of ownership

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Expectations of the Sponsored School

• That the Province will seek out and encourage
  qualified Vowed and Lay Marianists to serve in
  the school and on the school board
• That the Province through the Province Office of
  Education will assist the school in providing
  educational and faith programs, resources and
  information for formation in the CME

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Expectations of the Sponsored School (Continued)

• That the Province will support the sponsored
  schools in the achievement of its mission through
  Province programs and MEC, through involvement
  with Marianist Universities, and through linking
  them to an international network of schools
  sponsored worldwide by the Marianist Family

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Sponsored Review Process

• The Office of Education will develop a review
  process that will be presented to the Presidents
  and Principals of our schools in their November
  meeting
• The Office of Education will take the suggestions
  made by the CEOs of the schools and make a
  recommendation to the Provincial Chapter
  Committee on Education at the March Chapter,
  2003. This will be reviewed and presented to the
  Provincial Chapter for discussion.

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Dissolution of the Sponsorship Agreement

• Either sponsored school or the Society of Mary
  may choose to terminate the agreement
• Termination assumes prior conversation and an
  attempt to terminate in an amicable manner

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Marianist School Network

• Marianist School Network membership is open to
  Marianist owned and/or Marianist sponsored
  schools.

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Network Membership

• Membership
• Mutual agreement by school and the Society of
  Mary regarding terms of Sponsorship
• Functions of the members and the Society of Mary
• Collaboration of the Society of Mary and the
  designated school in fulfilling the terms of the
  Sponsorship agreement

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Network Member Websites

• Links to member schools
• Central Catholic High School
• Vianney High School
• Chaminade College Prep
• Nolan Catholic High School

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Network Member Websites continued

• Msgr. Hackett Catholic Central High School
• Chaminade-Julienne High School
• Memphis Catholic High School
• Archbishop Moeller High School
• North Catholic High School
• Purcell Marian High School
• Villa Angela St. Joseph High School

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Network Member Websites continued

• Chaminade Madonna High School
• Collegio San Jose
• Archbishop Riordan High School
• Chaminade Middle School
• Chaminade College Preparatory
• St. Anthony Jr./Sr. High School
• St. Louis High School

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Language of Governance Structures

• By laws
• Consultative
• Limited Jurisdiction
• Policy
• Reserved Powers
• School Administration
• Separate Incorporation
• Standing Committees
• Two-tiered Model of Governance

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Language of Governance Structures (Defined)

• By-laws any set of rules adopted by an
  organization or assembly for governing its own
  meetings or affairs(approval of by-laws generally
  a reserved power of the sponsor)
• Consultative A consultative board is one which
  cooperates in the policy-making process by
  formulating and adapting but never
  enacting(passing) policy,

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Language of Governance Structures (Defined)

• Consultative The constituting authority states
  those areas where the board is to be consulted.
  Such action is usually made effective by the
  boards constitution.
• Limited jurisdiction a board with limited
  jurisdiction has power limited to certain areas
  of educational concern. It has final but not
  total jurisdiction

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Language of Governance Structures (Defined)

• Policy a policy is a guide for discretionary
  action.
• Formulate draft, recommend
• Enact formally establish, a function of
  authority
• Implement a function of administration, not
  board

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Language of Governance Structures (Defined)

• Reserved Powers powers which are retained by
  the member corporation in a two tiered
  corporation model
• School Administration(ors) The Principal is the
  professional educator who administers the school
  according to diocesan, state and accrediting
  agency norms.(The role of the President is an
  emerging one)

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Language of Governance Structures (Defined)

• Separate Incorporation a school owned by a
  religious congregation separately incorporated,
  its own corporation, under civil law of the
  state.
• Standing Committees Committees of the board
  which are named in its by-laws as ongoing each
  has defined tasks which relate to an area of
  responsibility appropriate to the board.

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Language of Governance Structures (Defined)

• Two-tiered model of governance the religious
  congregation(Member Corporation) as the public
  juridic person and the school separately
  incorporated in civil law and an activity of the
  public juridic person.

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Reserved Powers

• Any changes in mission, philosophical direction
  or purposes of the sponsored institution
• The adoption, repeal or amendment of the Articles
  of Incorporation
• Initiation or termination of sponsorship and
  establishing separate corporations
• The acquiring of capital financing and
  amortization of debt

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Reserved Powers (continued)

• The purchase, sale, lease or disposition of real
  property or other assets or the incurring of
  debts or other obligations that exceed the
  monetary limit set annually by the Leadership
  Council
• The appointment of external auditors
• Any items in a sponsored organizations operating
  or capital budget inferring a subsidy from
  Congregations funds.

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Language of Church Governance

• Board
• Collegiality
• Governance
• Juridic Persons
• Members
• Subsidiarity

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Language of Church Governance (Defined)

• Board A board is a body whose members are
  selected to participate in decision making for a
  particular sponsored school.
• Collegiality a principle of Church Governance
  by which responsibility is shared in order to
  enhance participation in the life of the Church
  and instill an increased sense of ownership and
  concern for the future.

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Language of Church Governance (Defined)

• Governance the exercise of authority and
  responsibility for a work of the Church, e.g. a
  sponsored high school
• Juridic Persons are constituted either by
  prescription of law or by a special concession of
  the competent authority given through a
  decreethey are aggregates of persons or things
  ordered towards a purpose congruent with the
  mission of the Church and which transcend the
  purpose of the individuals that make them up.

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Language of Church Governance (Defined)

• Members Canon Law requires that all public
  juridic persons have administrators who are
  responsible for the material welfare of their
  institutions, a canonical administrator. The
  elected president of the regional community and
  her/his team act as the canonical administrator.
  She/he and her/his team are the members of the
  Corporation,

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Language of Church Governance (Defined)

• Subsidiarity a principle of Church governance
  by which decisions are to be made at the
  appropriate level

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Responsibilities of the Corporation

• Oversight of Trustee education and trustee
  appointments
• Sponsorship education and communication to the
  Congregation on sponsorship
• Membership and representation in appropriates
  organization related to institutional sponsorship
• Annual report to the Leadership Council
• Other responsibilities referred by the Leadership
  Council

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Corporation Action

• The appointment of trustees or directors of a
  sponsored institution
• The election and removal of the CEO of any
  sponsored institution
• The approval of Corporation policies of sponsored
  institutions
• All legal responsibilities as expressed in
  institutional by-laws in reference to the members
  of Congregation

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Corporation Action (Continued)

• The approval of annual reports, including short
  and long range plans
• The approval of the annual operating and capital
  budgets
• The accepting of donated assets requiring
  financial commitments by the institution