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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Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat's Feast Day Prayer Video
Dear All,Read MoreAs we approach the celebration of St. Madeleine Sophie Barat's feast day, our hearts are full. We face daily stories of heartbreaking loss and heroic acts of healing. The reality of Covid 19 affects us on all levels, internally and externally. Amid this uncertainty, we three were asked to prepare a reflection on Sophie. -
Duchesne Students Paying More Attention to Mental Health
Health class discussions now focus on how to maintain or improve mental wellbeing and offer support to loved ones who are impacted by the situation.Read More -
Former top DHS official closes 2019-20 C-Suite series
Elaine Duke has flown on Air Force One and has participated in meetings at the White House and at Camp David. The former acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provided an hour of insight and inspiration to the Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart community April 22 during the final program of our second annual “Imagine Yourself in the C-Suite” series. Duke served as the agency’s acting secretary for about four months during her tenure as DHS’ deputy secretary from April 2017 to April 2018 as part of her nearly three decades of federal government service.Read More -
Sacred Heart Goal 3 is Shining Through!
Sacred Heart Goal 3 is shining through! Alumna, Fran Conway Vitale CH '67 and her 13 year old granddaughter, Brooke (daughter of Lelia Vitale Davis '94), helped supply 554 families in need with groceries through the United Way in Colorado Springs, CO. Fran shared that Lelia is inspired to be a volunteer through Sr. Caire's words of wisdom, "when you're feeling down, go help someone else". What are you doing to help others?Read More -
Peace Be With You, Sacred Heart!
The Sacred Heart community is sharing inspiration and encouragement while also staying home and staying safe. Check out our social media @sacredheartmi to see the latest, including daily morning prayers and "Goodnight, Sacred Heart" videos on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Peace be with you!Read More -
Senior Class of 2020 Video
Members of the Carrollton community created messages to the Class of 2020 which were compiled into a single video. You can see the video on the Carrollton Post YouTube channel here.Read More -
SR Father Takes Music to the Streets
Stone Ridge father Jim Mazzara (Michelle '23) is a bagpipe player and Washington DC firefighter, making a difference during this time of pandemic by touching the emotions of our community.Read More -
The Coronavirus Time Capsule Video
The Coronavirus Time Capsule is a worldwide project - a response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The Time Capsule was created by Company Three - a theatre company of young people led by a team of professional theatre-makers, based London. Their mission is to give teenagers the space to tell their own stories and create their own change.Read More -
SHS Nurses Treat with Love/Care
During winter mornings when students are on the SK-8 campus, the Sacred Heart teachers and staff receive an email from the Schools' Health Office about whether it's safe temperature-wise for students to have recess outside. That's just the start of Nurse Courtney Sensenbrenner's morning. Throughout a typical day, Mrs. Sensenbrenner and Marchus White, Sacred Heart's on-staff EMT (pictured left), see upwards of 100 students for treatment, medication administration, or evaluation. For example, there may be scraped knees to attend to, blood sugar levels to be tested, temperatures to be taken, or questions to be asked about how a student is feeling—which helps the medical team determine whether the student can go back to class or needs to be sent home.Read More -
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. -
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
Click here to read or watch this week's reflection.
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Upcoming Events
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NCGS
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Independence Day
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IBSC
Barcelona, Spain
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.