Teaching and Learning

Pathway One of the Strategic Long Range Plan focuses on Sacred Heart Academy’s innovative educational environment and pedagogical approach. Faculty are engaged in dynamic professional development and innovative teaching addresses student growth.

Creating Equitable and Inclusive Climate

This year, Sacred Heart Academy participated in the No Place for Hate initiative sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League earning designation as a No Place for Hate school. The committee worked on organizing a school framework for combating bias, bullying and hatred. This designation aligns with the school mission and Goals and Criteria of a Sacred Heart education. Sacred Heart Academy will continue to work on educating students on diversity, bias, social justice and inclusion through curricular and co-curricular activities.

Professional Development

Faculty and staff continue to immerse themselves in professional development opportunities related to inclusivity and the role they play as adults working in education.

Professional development opportunities our teachers engaged in during this year included: • DEI: Robin D’Angelo White Fragility webinar/small group discussions, reading Teaching While the World is on Fire • DEI: ADL workshop, anti-bias training • DEI: Leadership & Design Team: Workshop on handling political conversations in the classroom • DEI anti-bias training with Marian Rosario ’16 • DEI: presentation to the Board with Marian Rosario ’16 • DEI summer reading 2021 for all: Don't Look Away:

Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms, and subgroup for

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools. • Curriculum design and mapping: McTighe and Jacobs virtual workshops • Virtual teaching: Aviva Moore, Ed.D., specialist on virtual teaching and learning • Individual PD specific to faculty needs such as: National

Council of Teachers of Math, National Council of

Teachers of English, STEM, Wilson Reading, AP

Institute, etc.

No Place for Hate (NPFH) committee:

Deirdre Cryor Kelly Weber Ashley Fullen Lauren Horowitz Kim Trinacria Tony Yoo Bridget Thompson ’02, P’33 Margie Corcoran P’16,’21,’24 Marian Rosario ’16 Mr. and Mrs Redmond P’24 Brianna Lubin ’21 Regan Dougherty ’23 Emily Shlegel ’22 Meilyn Frank ’22 MaryGrace Coyne ’26

The following faculty and staff read and discussed the New York Times and USA Today bestseller, Me and White Supremacy:

SUMMER 2020

Deirdre Cryor Lauren Deets ’95 Ashley Fullen Jeremy Fus Dorothy Sasso Nicole Scalfaro Brent Schulte Kerri Schuster Kim Trinacria Kelly Weber Morey Williams

FALL 2020

Eileen Day Joanne Dougherty Kara Rufo ’05 Cara Saraco Catherine Scholl Zach Shuler Michelle Sheibley