Instructional Corner

Ms. Merkel circulates her classroom to provide individual academic feedback to each student during a 4th grade math lesson. Behavior-specific feedback has been a focus within our building and moving beyond general statements like “Good job!” to naming the specific behaviors we want to encourage. Our teachers frequently identify and name positive and expected behaviors throughout our building as a part of our Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, and the impact is no

One of our goals as educators is to understand what our students know, and what better way than to have them share their thinking. One practical way to make student thinking visible is through the use of Thinking Maps. At St. Edward, we challenge ourselves to intentionally use these tools in our instruction across all grade levels and subject areas. Thinking Maps provide universal scaffolding for students because they are a predictable visual structure for organizing their id

Faith formation at St. Edward School does not wait for a child to learn to read. It begins at age three, in a room called the Atrium. The Atrium is where our youngest students encounter the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, a method that introduces preschoolers to the language of the liturgy through their hands. Children work quietly with simple, real materials, such as a model altar and the vessels they will later recognize at Mass. A dedicated catechist guides the room, not

At our first Mass of May as a school, students presented Our Lady with an abundance of flowers as we once again crowned our parish statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

St. Edward School sits on Thompson Lane, but its families do not all come from the neighborhood. They come from twenty-five zip codes across Nashville. Some drive past closer schools to get here. That is worth sitting with for a moment, because it says something about what families are looking for and what they are willing to do to find it. Inside the building, English is the language of the classroom. Outside it, seven languages are spoken at home. A school that draws from t