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For Catholic Schools Week, principals, teachers and parents wrote reflections about what it means to serve students and families during this time of pandemic..

Maybe Elise Heil, the principal of Sacred Heart School in Washington, D.C., always was destined to be an educator. Her mom, Donna Heil, noted, “As a child, she’d line up her stuffed animals in the hallway and teach them. She was always going to be a teacher.”

The Consortium of Catholic Academies – a coalition of four center-city Catholic elementary schools in the District of Columbia – has done “an incredible job” of continuing to educate students despite the hardships brought on by pandemic and quarantine, according to the president of the consortium.