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Programs & Collaborations
Bilingual Curriculum at Sacred Heart School
Sacred Heart Catholic School is the only bilingual school in the Washington Archdiocese. Students at Sacred Heart, develop bilingualism and biliteracy in Spanish and English while continuing to achieve high academic standards.
Differentiated instruction is vital to the success of all learners and provides the opportunity for each learner to reach his/her potential. Second language acquisition is critical for students to compete and succeed in a global economy.CCA Pre-K 3 & Pre-K 4 Programs
CCA schools offer Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4 programs focusing on the spiritual, social, emotional, physical and cognitive growth of each child. The curriculum uses a thematic approach to promote the development of the whole child. By starting children in these programs, the CCA ensures students will enter Kindergarten on grade level. -
University of Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Teaching Fellows
CCA Schools benefit from a collaboration with the Alliance of Catholic Education (ACE), an organization at the University of Notre Dame. ACE Teaching Fellows, an AmeriCorps Indiana and Serve Indiana program, seeks to develop a cohort of highly motivated and committed educators to meet the needs of our country's most underserved K-12 Catholic schools. Established in 1993, ACE now places approximately 180 young professionals in 140+ parochial schools throughout the United States.
To carry out its core teaching mission, ACE recruits talented graduates from colleges and universities across the country. ACE teachers represent a broad variety of undergraduate disciplines, with a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. ACE provides an intensive two-year service experience encompassing professional development, community life, and spiritual growth. These three pillars are at the heart of the ACE program. ACE aims to provide excellence in education and to maximize opportunities for its teachers' personal and professional growth. Through this mutually beneficial experience, many ACE teachers choose to become permanent CCA educators.
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Project Zero(Harvard University Graduate School of Education)& The PD Collaborative at WIS
The CCA has enjoyed a long-term relationship with both Project Zero, a research group at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and the Professional Development Collaborative at Washington International School, which sponsors a DC-Project Zero network and regularly offers professional development opportunities around Project Zero ideas. Staff from the four CCA schools have attended either the Project Zero Classroom or the Washington International School Summer Institute for Teachers, aka WISSIT, both of which are week-long immersive conferences featuring Project Zero research in practice. A number of educators from Sacred Heart School and Saint Thomas More Catholic Academy have served on the faculty of these two institutes.
The PD Collaborative also has organized CCA Collaboration Days and has supported cohorts of CCA teachers to engage with projects such as Children Are Citizens, Making Across the Curriculum, JusticexDesign, and the DC-Area Playful Schools Network, all of which originated in DC.
These relationships have served to hone teachers' pedagogical practices so that they can deepen their students' thinking and understanding. -