A huge thanks to all who attended the General Parent Coordinating Council Meeting this past Tuesday evening. I know that the adjustment you made in your schedule to be present is just one example of the many sacrifices you make as a parent-partner in this education. Please know that a follow-up e-mail will be sent to you with more detailed information regarding how you can participate in helping the Academy of the Sacred Heart to prepare for its second two hundred years! My deep gratitude goes out to Mr. Brooks, Mr. Timmons, Mr. Schaefer and Mrs. Parvis and all with whom they worked in helping to articulate the Long Range Plans.
One point I made in my own concluding remarks on Tuesday is worth repeating:
A Sacred Heart education is
JUST AS, if not MORE, NEEDED
in our world today
as it was 200 years ago.
Our world today is in desperate need of people who can think creatively, reflectively, divergently and synthetically. At Sacred Heart, we work hard to help our students think in these ways.
Our world is in desperate need of people who are confident to BE who they are because they know that they are inherently valuable. At Sacred Heart, we work hard to help our students to understand themselves in this way.
Our world is in desperate need of people who are able to negotiate and collaborate with others. At Sacred Heart we see relationship-building as the foundation of all that we do.
Most importantly, our world is in desperate need of people who have the courage to make choices based on the attitudes of the Heart of Christ. To be privileged to participate in forming children to become such adults is our SACRED TASK.
At the core of all of this, we want our students and your children to be at home in God’s Heart and to make God’s Heart their home. This is my deepest prayer!
Blessings,
— Maureen Glavin, rscj
