VMCatholic School Principals Workshop
Lead a School Where Vocations Can FlourishCatholic schools are essential places where students first learn that God has a plan for their lives. Principals shape this environment more than anyone, setting the spiritual tone and guiding the school’s culture. Our Catholic School Principal Workshop equips leaders with the vision and tools they need to create a vocation-producing school where prayer, discernment, and joyful Catholic identity can flourish.
Why a Principal Workshop?
Studies continue to show that most priests first sensed a call before age 18. This makes Catholic education an essential place for nurturing openness to God’s invitation. When a principal intentionally cultivates a culture of vocations, the entire school becomes fertile ground for students to grow in faith, identity, and purpose.
- Build a Schoolwide Vocation Vision: Shape a unified culture where every student learns that God has a plan for their life.
- Mobilize Your Faculty: Equip teachers and staff with simple strategies to integrate vocation awareness into daily classroom routines.
- Implement a Vocation Calendar: Adopt a ready-made calendar that guides schoolwide prayer, activities, and engagement throughout the year.
- Engage Students in Discernment: Discover practical ways to introduce priesthood, consecrated life, and sacramental marriage in age-appropriate, meaningful ways.
- Use Proven Tools and Inspiration: Access ready-to-use activities, examples of vocation-producing schools, and stories of saints to spark curiosity and hope.
“A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.”
— Pope Benedict XIV
Engage Your Catholic School Teachers to Promote Vocations through This Workshop
We encourage dioceses to offer both workshops, beginning with principals and then teachers, to ensure a unified approach to fostering a culture of vocations throughout the school.
Understanding Today’s Vocation Landscape
Discover the latest U.S. and diocesan vocation data and why every Catholic school must intentionally become a seedbed for priestly, religious, and married vocations. Recognize the unmatched opportunity your campus has to shape an entire generation’s response to God’s call.
The Principal’s Strategic Leadership Role
Explore your unique position as the key leader in building a school-wide culture of discernment. Learn how to weave vocation promotion naturally into curriculum, campus ministry, faculty formation, service programs, and the daily life of the school.
School-Wide Tools That Actually Work
Walk away with proven, ready-to-implement strategies in Prayer, Awareness & Education, and Affirmation—plus powerful resources that transform an entire school community.
Igniting a Vocation-Rich Catholic School
See real-life examples of Catholic schools that consistently produce abundant vocations to priesthood, consecrated life, and holy marriage. Leave equipped to lead your faculty and students toward the same extraordinary, lasting fruit.
Feedback from Principals
95% of principals leave this workshop ready to start promoting vocations in their schools.
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