Sister Carol Cimino, SSJ, Ed D
Sister Carol Cimino is a Sister of Saint Joseph of Rochester, New York. Currently, she is a national consultant for the William H. Sadlier Co., a publisher of textbooks, with offices in New York City.
She has been a teacher and an administrator on all levels of Catholic education and currently co-directs the Catholic School Leadership Institute at Manhattan College. She was also a development director for three high schools and continues to teach and give workshops on the marketing of Catholic schools.
Sister Carol has written numerous articles for education journals. Her book, Ensuring a Future Full of Hope has been used by parent groups and boards to assist in recruitment efforts. She has written a series of thumbnail pamphlets, which were published by NCEA to help school boards become more effective, and her tuition manual, Life’s Other Certainty, is used by schools of several religious denominations.
Sister Carol travels the country giving talks and workshops to anyone who will listen. Although she has given hundreds of these, however, she is proudest of the fact that she is still the only religious woman to have been a 3-day champion on “Jeopardy!”.
Imagine yourself sitting at the feet of a master teacher who is about to share with you the fruits of almost fifty years of being in the classroom. She has in fact been a teacher for most of her life, and everything she knows about teaching she has learned from the young people she taught.
She wants to share with you her impressions of her students (“They are infuriating, loving, questioning, naïve, savvy, and mysterious”), and her thoughts about how they grow in faith (“I wondered about the mystery of their faith, and it made me want to be very sensitive to this fragile, yet powerful force within them.”) Above all she wants to encourage you to look within yourself at the level of zeal and energy you bring to your ministry.
That teacher is Carol Cimino, and she has a lifetime of lessons to share with you about how to integrate Scripture into your lessons, how to experience prayer and liturgy with your students, ways to reach out with them to serve Christ’s least ones, how to instill a sense of the “sacred” in their lives, and how to help them face the daily challenges of living their faith—in the classroom and out. So, “come gather round” with open minds and hearts to listen to the teacher.
Continuing to Ensure a Future Full of Hope, by Sister Carol, is published by NCEA and is available on their website.