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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Lead Like a Girl Conference
On Saturday, April 6th, seniors Sarah Conway, Daniella Fadjoh, Abigail Loranca, and Grace Magnotta participated in Lead Like a Girl: A Conference for Risk Takers and Changemakers at Stuart Country Day School in Princeton, New Jersey. For the past two years, these students created and shaped Sacred Heart Academy Bryn Mawr’s Courageous Conversations program. They were chosen to present in two portions of the conference, with Daniella and Abigail speaking on a panel for teenage leadership and Sarah and Grace sharing information in an expo hall. The all-day event offered inspirational keynote speakers, as well as meaningful panels and workshops.Read More -
Project Term
Project Term 2019 is officially in the books; stay tuned for a complete wrap-up. Until then, you can learn more about this unique program and look back at this year's educational journeys at https://www.ashmi.orgRead More -
Sprout Creek Farm Summer Camp 2019!
Read MoreGive your child an unforgettable summer experience at Sprout Creek Farm.
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Financial literacy students present business plans for coffee shops at third annual "Shark Tank"
Upper School financial literacy students at the Academy of the Sacred Heart presented business plans for their own "dream coffee shop" during the third annual Sacred Heart "Shark Tank" on April 15. Through the financial literacy course, students learned about all aspects of running a small business and becoming financially literate—beneficial 21st-century skills, regardless of one's career.Read More -
Iron Plaid earns Imagery Award at FIRST Robotics event.
Duchesne's robotics team, Iron Plaid, competed at the district event held at San Jacinto College March 28-29. The team advanced to the semi-final round of the competition and required a tie-breaker.Read More -
Lenten Reflection
Read More“Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him.”
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Sixth Class Poverty Simulation
Our Sixth Class students, along with their parents, participated in a Poverty Simulation as part of the Academy’s Goal Three initiative, which states, “Schools of the Sacred Heart commit themselves to educate to a social awareness which impels to action.“Read More -
Indigenous Voices at Sacred Heart
As part of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, The Sacred Heart School of Montreal prepares and inspires its students to be active, informed, and responsible citizens. Every important event at school begins with the recognition that The Sacred Heart School of Montreal is located on unceded Indigenous lands; that as an inclusive and open minded place of learning, we are committed to learning about past events; and that the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, the Mohawk, and the Huron-Wendat Nations are recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters on which we gather. In this spirit, the all girls English Catholic high school recently invited three indigenous speakers to speak to staff and students.Read More -
Lenten Reflection
Today, on the anniversary of the martyrdom of Saint Oscar Romero, Rose Marie Quilter, RSCJ, writes, “It’s an ideal moment to ponder the call of Moses, God’s call to each of us personally and our call, together, as a community of faith in today’s world.”Read More -
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PASH Third Grader Featured on the Rachel Ray Show for His Inspiring Community Service
Sacred Heart Goal 3 embodied as nine year old, Sandro Cunningham collected over 1,000 coats in 3 years to donate to people in need.Read More -
Lenten Reflection
Read More“Lent and life are both short and critical – the days as they pass are engraving, recording, sculpturing the things of the future on our souls. No two days are alike.”Janet Erskine Stuart, RSCJ, Prayer in Faith -
Students Collaborate on Innovative Solutions to Social Problems
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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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Moving Towards Reconciliation: Conversations and Efforts about Race, Slavery and History Across the Network
Read MoreUnquestionably, the issue of race and reconciliation is a topic that confronts and challenges our school communities today. It is not a new topic, and while it is national in scope, the reality and impact are felt in particular in the local context of each school community. For that reason, the Network of Sacred Heart Schools is working with the Society of the Sacred Heart United States -- Canada Province to provide opportunities and resources for our school communities to understand the experience of racism broadly and locally.
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Upcoming Events
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Independence Day
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Network Office closed
Independence Day weekend.
Connect with Us
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.