February 20, 2019
As the Dominican Sisters~Grand Rapids WORD~ESL ministry grew and expanded, students expressed a desire to become citizens, so our tutors began to prepare them individually. Within a brief time, we began to form small groups of students who were eligible and wanted to study with us. When they were ready, we would contact Liz Balck […]
October 2, 2016
Training teachers and integrating principles of Catholic social teaching into curriculum came easily to justice-minded Dominican Sister Joyce Ann Hertzig. “I was once asked how one could integrate Catholic identity or Catholic Social Teaching into a math class. ‘Develop a story problem about the ratio of food to people in the world,’ I suggested,” says […]