Root Beliefs
- Our goal is to educate the child with a catholic worldview, encouraging them to hold God at their core, Christ in their heart, and the Holy Spirit as their guide.
- Parents and staff will work in partnership to educate the mind, body, and soul of every student.
- All children can and will learn in all subject areas, especially the Catholic faith.
- Our community believes that parents, faculty, and students are accountable for academic success and service to others.
Philosophy
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Mission
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Intentional Catholic Education
Intentional Catholic education is a long tradition of education that emphasizes the seeking of truth, goodness, and beauty. This intentionally catholic approach teaches students how to learn and how to think. What makes this education so effective? It is largely because of its approach to how and when students are taught. Regardless of their learning style, children learn in phases or stages.
K-6 Grade StageHere children soak up knowledge. They memorize, absorb facts, learn the rules of phonics and spelling, recite poetry, and study plants, animals, basic math and other topics. Moral lessons are included.
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7-8 Grade StageStudents are naturally more argumentative and begin to question authority and facts. They want to know the “why” of something—the logic behind it. During this stage, students learn reasoning, informal and formal logic, and how to argue with wisdom and eloquence.
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9-12 Grade Stage (continued elsewhere)10–12 is naturally when students become independent thinkers and communicators. Intentional Catholic education aims to include instruction on the virtues and a love of truth, goodness and beauty in ordinary lesson plans.
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Intentional Catholic education aims to include instruction on the virtues and a love of truth, goodness and beauty in ordinary lesson plans. Students learn the arts, sciences and literature starting with classical Greek and Roman sources and Wisdom and input from ancient church fathers, Renaissance theologians and even Mozart
“Contrary to Public School: The structure of public school lends itself to questions, set up to say, "This is what you need to know, and here are the facts."
Intentional Catholic Education: Not just a method but an incorporation into the whole treasure of Christian wisdom, which includes that of Christian cultures. Our students would get a coherent understanding of history, literature, art, philosophy — the traditions to what Catholics in the West are heirs.
Intentional Catholic Education, with its focus on philosophy and inquiry, can offer students the opportunity to gain knowledge and develop innovative thought, while examining issues through a moral lens.
How does a philosophy that has been taught for centuries stay relevant in an education age immersed with iPads and apps, and careers driven by the digital economy, automation and personalization?
Today, students are charged with shaping policy and fighting injustice, and have endless information, and misinformation, pushed to them. An Intentionally Catholic education provides the academic excellence and moral framework to fight this injustice and encourages students to pursue the why, how and who of ideas and decisions in addition to the what, and helps develop young people who own their power to enrich their lives and the lives of others.
Directly and indirectly, an Intentionally Catholic Education offers a deeper, lasting preparation for college, careers and living a meaningful life by encouraging its two guiding principles—wisdom and virtue.
“Contrary to Public School: The structure of public school lends itself to questions, set up to say, "This is what you need to know, and here are the facts."
Intentional Catholic Education: Not just a method but an incorporation into the whole treasure of Christian wisdom, which includes that of Christian cultures. Our students would get a coherent understanding of history, literature, art, philosophy — the traditions to what Catholics in the West are heirs.
Intentional Catholic Education, with its focus on philosophy and inquiry, can offer students the opportunity to gain knowledge and develop innovative thought, while examining issues through a moral lens.
How does a philosophy that has been taught for centuries stay relevant in an education age immersed with iPads and apps, and careers driven by the digital economy, automation and personalization?
Today, students are charged with shaping policy and fighting injustice, and have endless information, and misinformation, pushed to them. An Intentionally Catholic education provides the academic excellence and moral framework to fight this injustice and encourages students to pursue the why, how and who of ideas and decisions in addition to the what, and helps develop young people who own their power to enrich their lives and the lives of others.
Directly and indirectly, an Intentionally Catholic Education offers a deeper, lasting preparation for college, careers and living a meaningful life by encouraging its two guiding principles—wisdom and virtue.
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