PowerSchool

The schools of the Diocese of Greensburg provide parents with a connection to the classroom through PowerSchool’s parent portal. Parents can keep up to date on students’ progress, assignments and school bulletins from any computer connected to the Internet.

Discovery Education

Enhance student’s mastery of curriculum at home with access to over 40,000 free educational videos, photos, diagrams and audio clips available for download. Contact your school to obtain login information for your child.

Adopted International Society for Technology in Education’s (ISTE)

National Educational Technology Standards (NETS). The goal is to develop standards that use a technology curriculum for students in grades K-8 and allow them to participate in weekly computer class as part of standard curriculum.

Places of Instructional New Technologies (POINTS)

Wireless laptop carts available in eight elementary schools throughout the diocese provided through a grant from the R.K. Mellon Foundation.

Laptop computer totals:
Cardinal Maida: 43
Conn-Area Catholic: 37
Holy Trinity: 35
St. Mary (Nativity): 34
All Saints: 32
St. John the Evangelist: 30
St. John the Baptist: 26
Divine Redeemer: 22

eAcademy

A consortium of school districts from Westmoreland County combining with the Intermediate Unit 7 to offer online course curriculum to students. All courses are taught by certified teachers who have completed a rigorous training for teaching online classes. This is a wonderful opportunity to present students with a broad range of courses from which to choose. eAcademy utilizes a student-centered, constructivist approach to learning which promotes student success.

Project Lead The Way

An engineering curriculum currently implemented at the middle school level at Geibel Catholic Middle-High School (Connellsville) and Mary Queen of Apostles School (New Kensington). The curriculum of PLTW makes math and science relevant for students by engaging in hands-on, real-world projects. Students understand how the skills they are learning in the classroom can be applied in everyday life. This approach is called activities-based, project-based and problem-based learning or APPB-learning.

iSafe Inc.

The worldwide leader in Internet safety education. Founded in 1998 and endorsed by the U.S. Congress, iSafe is a non-profit foundation dedicated to protecting the online experiences of youth everywhere. iSafe incorporates classroom curriculum with dynamic community outreach to empower students, teachers, parents, law enforcement, and concerned adults to make the Internet a safer place.