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.
October 2022
Marian University partnership helps
Holy Angels students thrive
Holy Angels students receive tutoring from Marian students
From Holy Angels Principal Justin Armitage
Over the past three years, Holy Angles has cultivated a very strong relationship with Marian University. This partnership has allowed Holy Angels and Marian to plant and nurture seeds of excellence in students. Four years ago, a proposal was sent to the Klipsch Educators College at Marian University to start a summer school program. As this program was being developed and planned, the world decided to put a wrench in the plans and the pandemic hit. In the fall of 2020, individuals from both Holy Angels and Marian were back at it again trying to implement programs to help recover the learning lost during the pandemic. The summer school program was priority number one for the summer of 2021. Over the past two summers of the Summer Enrichment program, 12 Marian education students have served more than 75 Holy Angels students in addressing learning loss.
During the 2021-2022 school year, a literacy tutoring program was also developed to serve Holy Angels students on Tuesdays. This program provides the opportunity for more than 30 Marian education students to work with K-3rd grade scholars each week to help build foundational literacy skills, focusing on reinforcing the lessons taught each week in the classroom. This school year the partnership has expanded again to include math tutoring to more than 20 Holy Angels students from five Marian education students.
Weekend Meal Program
Left to right: Kathy Laudick, Jim Laudick, Cathy Kroeff, and Dr. Gene Kroeff
Left to right: April Sasso, Terry Buckman and
Mary Sukup
The Weekend Meals Program commenced for the 2022-23 academic year on Friday, September 9. Volunteers gathered to pack 220 brown bags prepared with fruits, vegetables, and protein items. This is done in an effort to help ensure that students receive proper nutrition during the weekend. If you are interested in volunteering with the Weekend Food Program or learning more about the MTCA Allies, please contact Kathy Laudick at klaudick@comcast.net.
School Happenings
Central Catholic
In celebration of Labor Day, second grade students dressed up as their parents' professions that day. They were interviewed by the seventh graders to share more about what their parents do.
Holy Cross Central
Students are participating in the Roaring Into Reading program which encourages daily reading and parental engagement. Below is 7th grader Daniela, one of our top readers, who read 842 minutes in the first 4 weeks of the program.
St. Philip Neri
St. Philip Neri kindergarten students are well on their way to becoming readers and writers. They recently learned about the letter T in their song about a turtle named Tim!
Holy Angels
Students at Holy Angels recently practiced their engineering skills by building structures out of toothpicks and marshmallows and had a great time developing these new skills.
The Impact of Endowment Funds
All endowment funds for Archdiocesan parishes, schools and ministries are invested and managed by the Catholic Community Foundation (CCF). The total value of the more than 550 CCF endowment funds was more than $200 million in the last fiscal year.
Donors often ask why they should invest in an endowment fund when they want their gift to have an immediate impact. Endowments help ensure the future financial health of our Archdiocesan organizations, such as MTCA. Endowments invested in CCF grow at a faster pace due to the combined investing power of the more than $200 million in assets.
As these funds grow, they not only provide a future income stream, but the annual distributions from endowments allow our entities to receive important operating funds today. In our last fiscal year, CCF endowments distributed more than $9 million to entities throughout the Archdiocese with more than half that amount benefitting parishes, schools and ministries.
To learn more about endowments, including establishing a new fund or contributing to an existing one, please contact us at ccf@archindy.org or call 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 317 236-7322.
