Welcome to Sacred Heart Education
Welcome! Discover the mission of Sacred Heart education in Canada and the United States. Meet our 24 member schools as well as other Sacred Heart schools around the world. Learn how we extend the mission of the Society of the Sacred Heart through education. Come explore our programs and resources, and most importantly our commitment to form future leaders to serve with faith, intellect and compassion.
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Guiding Principles
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Our International Network
Explore our international community page with an interactive map of the schools worldwide.Read More -
Summer Service Projects
The Summer Service Projects, now in their 28th year, offer students a unique experience of service and community, which has consistently made a significant impact on the lives of all who have been involved as well as the school communities to which the students return.Read More
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SchoolsThe Network of Sacred Heart Schools is an association of Catholic independent schools acting in cooperation with the USC Province of the Society of the Sacred Heart to advance a shared mission. -
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EducatorsThe women and men serving in schools across the Network are committed to an education that transforms. -
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StudentsOur students are ages pre-primary through high school. Their learning communities are single gender, co-institutional or coeducational. -
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Alumnae and AlumniAfter graduation, Sacred Heart students join a world-wide community of alumnae and alumni around the world. -
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Religious of the Sacred HeartSent by the Church to communicate the love of the Heart of Christ, over 2,000 Religious of the Sacred Heart serve with partners in mission in over 41 countries around the globe. -
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Goals and CriteriaCapturing the essence of a Sacred Heart education, the Goals and Criteria embody pedagogical principles that have endured while the context of the world within which they operate has changed. -
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CountriesThe fruit of Madeleine Sophie Barat’s global vision and Philippine Duchesne’s missionary spirit is that there are Schools of the Sacred Heart in over 40 countries. -
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TrusteesEach school has a Board of Trustees (Directors) who through their generosity of time and experience work to ensure the integrity of the mission of Sacred Heart education and financial viability of the school into the future.
Recent News
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Revealing God's Love in the Midst of Uncertainty
The coronavirus has and will continue to challenge all of us. Given these uncertain times, the disturbance of social distancing and the isolation of not leaving home for some, we wish to respond as one body acting in hope as we draw upon the spirituality of the Sacred Heart. We agree with Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat that it is the relationships we build that sustain us through moments of joy and moments of challenge. We invite you to join us in prayer and reflection in the spirit of oneness with our God and with one another as all humanity copes with this global pandemic.Read More
Each week we hope to offer words, images, sounds and experiences as a source of encouragement and support as we call upon our God of Life and Hope in the spirit of trust and confidence. -
Alumnae Speak About Service, Outreach at Annual Symposium
On Tuesday, March 3, juniors and seniors gathered in the Blue Room to hear from Francoise Cattaneo ’16 and Lizzie White ’09 about their involvement in service, outreach, and accompaniment since graduating from NCDS at the annual Service Symposium.Read More -
Awarding-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft visits 91st Street
Award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft wowed 5th and 6th graders today with a cartoon workshop and stories about his NYT bestseller New Kid, the first graphic novel to win the Newbery Medal. #sh91Read More -
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New Podcast from the Society of the Sacred Heart
For The Sake Of is a new podcast about faith, life and what it all means. Join host Sister Kim King, a Religious of the Sacred Heart, as she engages in conversations, exploring personal stories about the integration of faith and life.Read More
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First Friday Reflections from the Society of the Sacred Heart
“Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide,Read More
do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.” Isaiah 54:2
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St. Philomena School to partner with Network of Sacred Heart Schools
I am delighted to share with you that the Leadership Team of the Faithful Companions of Jesus in the Americas and the Board of Trustees of St. Philomena School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island have decided to apply for membership to the Network of Sacred Heart Schools. The school is a Catholic independent school in good standing in the Diocese of Providence. The FCJ know our sisters in various parts of the world. Venerable Marie Madeleine, the FCJ foundress, and St. Madeleine Sophie were contemporaries; both knew and worked with Fr. Joseph Varin. The motto of the FCJ and the school is Courage and Confidence. St. Philomena School belongs to the New England Association of Independent Schools and the school leaders know several Sacred Heart educators from across the Network.Read More
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Welcome! Discover the mission of Sacred Heart education in Canada and the United States. Meet our 24 member schools as well as other Sacred Heart schools around the world. Learn how we extend the mission of the Society of the Sacred Heart through education. Come explore our programs and resources, and most importantly our commitment to form future leaders to serve with faith, intellect and compassion.
Schools of the Sacred Heart share in the educational mission of the Society of the Sacred Heart as articulated in the Goals and Criteria. The structure supporting Sacred Heart education in Canada and the United States includes the Conference of Sacred Heart Education and the Network of Sacred Heart Schools. Together they provide services and programs to ensure vitality of mission for the member schools sponsored by the Society of the Sacred Heart.