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Revamped ACRE assessment with Kelly Kohout

February 17, 2026 • Season 2 • Episode 33

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Our diocesan director of education services, Kelly Kohout, as been part of a collaborative effort to rewrite and re-tool the assessment that Catholic schools and religious education programs can use to measure the effectiveness of their religion curriculum. She explains how the ACRE (Assessment of Catholic Religious Education) is used in our diocesan Catholic schools as well as around the country, and why it was necessary to rewrite the exam. Take a deep dive into how our Catholic schools gauge the their religion curriculum in this episode!

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