Message

September 23-25, 2012
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 * Break Out Sessions:**
 * • Marketing Your Internal Message - Tony Farrell**

__**Notes:**__

(Submited and approved by Tony Farroll) Marketing internally: A School’s Presentation to its Board -composition: how much of your Board are metric-driven individuals (answers varied, though many acknowledged growing portion of Board that asks fewer qualitative questions about Mission and more quantitative questions about “performance”). -given nature of the “new” Board at so many of our schools, we have to lead with metrics…acknowledgement that “delaying” this reporting may raise questions regarding our hesitancy (are we ashamed of our numbers, worried about them?) -however, choice is ours…GPA, standardized tests (Stuart Hall High School reported on PSAT percentile jumps), how we report on our college matriculation (we need not feel constrained to give a list – we can add context such as placement among quartiles) -introducing “purpose” metric from CSEE (Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education [|csee.org])…how do we compare with national average of 20% of high school grads who have found “purpose” -SHHS looking at creating another metric – surveys of grads in college and in job market -establishing these metrics may open metric-driven members to the “Heart” of our work (almost like purchasing a “ticket” with them)

-finding ways to tactfully suggest that Madeleine Sophie did not establish our schools because she wanted the best “bubble-testers”…our foundresses believed in dynamic education

Root in quotes of our founding mothers:

“There are two ways of preparing children for the government of themselves in life [after our schools], one direct and the other indirect. The first has its merits, it is quick in results, often very successful. It fosters piety, inculcates some clear principles, dictates the main lines of action, and by rule and maxim, fits the being into its place in the world, and gives it means to do its duty creditably. The indirect method is longer and less clearly defined. It aims at giving a guiding light within, and power to climb a difficult path, and pick a way through unknown country by that light. This must be waited for, and slowly developed, but in the end it is of greater worth. The training of the Sacred Heart aims at this.” //-Janet Erskine Stuart, RSCJ//

“Cultivate the wish to learn, rather than the wish to be taught. Be determined to "pick up" and do not wait for the Professor and the pedagogical devices of his or her craft...Do not think that lessons will do it, if you wait for lessons you will wait a life-time...If we wait to be taught, we shall never learn.” – //Janet Erskine Stuart, RSCJ//

“We must not be blind to the fact that in theses times of activity in which we live, demands are made upon us and obstacles rise so that certain modifications and a certain perfectioning become indispensable…Education is no longer what it was a few years ago.” – //St. Madeleine Sophie Barat//

“Education must be concerned not only with studies, but also with whatever may be required for the right ordering of life and requirements of cultivated society.” //- St. Madeleine Sophie Barat//

Rooting in “5 C’s (+1) of a 21st Century Education” of Pat Bassett, outgoing President of NAIS []

Slides showing students living out and experiencing those 5 C’s (+1) in conjunction with 5 Goals of Sacred Heart -constructive and collaborative learning in the classroom, global education, etc

Bringing our metric-driven Board members beyond the metrics; affirming with our RSCJ Board members that we are continuing their education:

Closing with more quotes from our founders:

“Remember that the principal end is training to good; keeping from evil is not an end but a condition. A soul kept from evil for a time, not trained to positive good, to discern, to act, to judge, to do good, would leave us quite unfit for life. Whereas one leaving us even young and undeveloped, but having a positive love for good, an attraction for it and some practice, is fitted for life, at least to begin the battle. Our education would be quite a failure if we turned out nonentities without color or character or individuality.” //– Janet Erskine Stuart//

We must remember that each one of our children is destined for a mission in life. Neither we nor they can know what it is, but we must know and make them believe that each one has a mission in life and that she is bound to find out what it is, that there is some special work for God which will remain undone unless she does it, some place in life which no one else can fill....We must bring home to our children and to ourselves also, the responsibilities of our gifts. //– Janet Erskine Stuart//