Vision: Mother Theodore Catholic Academies (MTCA) students will flourish spiritually and academically.
Mission: MTCA lives the mission of the Catholic Church by teaching, serving, and forming students in the heart of Indianapolis.
September 2022
Central Catholic Instructional Assistants
are incredible assets to classroom instruction
Left to right, our Instructional Assistants are: Tina Mattingly (kindergarten), Angie Castile (second grade), Courtney Waltz (first grade), Ann Hurrle (third grade), Wendy Fernandez (preK)
From Central Catholic Principal Ruth Hurrle
Our amazing para-professionals work side by side with teachers in pre-K through third grade in order to provide small group instruction and individualized attention to help ensure each child gets the ability to reach his or her full potential. Instructional assistants co-plan with the classroom teachers every day and participate in all of our school-wide professional development, as well as planning our MTCA professional development opportunities.
With all of our lower grade classrooms at capacity this year, our instructional assistants help to ensure that our most vulnerable students do not get left behind during class. They also provide enrichment to students who master content quickly so that the classroom teachers are able to devote more time to students who need extra attention in understanding the material.
Instructional Assistants work in collaboration with our teachers and Instructional Coaches to differentiate the content so that our students are mastering the content to succeed academically.
School Happenings
Central Catholic
School is in full swing. First grade has been learning about living and non-living things in science class. Several students got to feed and pet the school chickens.
Holy Cross Central
Holy Cross kicked off the school year with an ice cream social to welcome students and families back.
Holy Angels
Pre-K scholars at Holy Angels celebrated Yellow Day with some fence painting outside.
St. Philip Neri
The students at St. Philip Neri have had a great first few weeks of school. They enjoy spending time in the library.
Leave a Legacy
Legacy giving is charitable giving that is arranged in the present to provide a future source of income for a beneficiary. In the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, the beneficiary can be a parish, school or ministry, or even the Archdiocese itself. In many cases, the gift is invested in an endowment fund. This produces a steady stream of interest or investment income to the beneficiary leaving behind a legacy long after the donor moves on to eternal life.
- One of the biggest advantages of legacy giving is that, over time, you are able to leave a larger gift and make a significant impact. In addition, your gift may provides a permanent, never-ending source of income for the beneficiary of your choice.
- A legacy gift in your will tells “your story." It professes to others what you valued most in your charitable giving during your lifetime.
- There are many ways to make a legacy gift. Some provide you and your family with income for a period of time before the account transfers to your beneficiary. And others are established only when your estate is settled.
Catholic Community Foundation staff members are happy to meet with you to discuss which type of legacy gift suits your intentions. Please contact us at www.archindy.org or 317-236-1482.
Amazon Smile donations resulted in $143 for MTCA/NDAA between October 1 and December 31, 2021.
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For more information
- To inquire about donating to MTCA, please contact Valerie Bendel at vbendel@archindy.org or call 317-236-1426.
- To inquire about the strategic direction of our schools, please contact Executive Director, Ronda Swartz at rswartz@archindy.org or call 317 255-5468.
- To inquire about admissions or to arrange a tour of one of our schools, contact Rose Springman, at rspringman@archindy.org or call 317 236-7324.
