July 25, 2025

Educators: Send us your favorite photos from the first days of the new school year

The first days of a new school year are filled with excitement, hope, a touch of anxiety and plenty of promise as students return to school, and fall sports teams prepare for another season of competition.

In celebration of these new beginnings, The Criterion is inviting our principals, teachers and coaches in the 69 Catholic schools across the archdiocese to submit one or two photos that capture the essence of the first days of a new academic year at your school.

The photos we receive will potentially become part of a social media presentation that will be featured on the Facebook and Instagram accounts of the archdiocese. These pages can be viewed at facebook.com/ArchdioceseOfIndianapolis and instagram.com/archindianapolis.

We also plan to showcase a selection of the pictures in a photo essay inside the printed edition of The Criterion in one of our August issues and in a photo gallery on The Criterion’s website, www.CriterionOnline.com.

Please send your photos to Robin Hartkorn at rhartkorn@archindy.org. †

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