Faculty Vision Statement

Within the mission of St. Madeleine Sophie School, it is our professional goal to graduate students who have mastered skills enabling them to positively influence their world through leadership, knowledge, respect and service.   

We accept the responsibility to form the curricular structure for a Christian Educational Community of the new century, shaped by a Catholic world-view, which empowers students toward interconnectedness.  Toward "We" rather than "Me."

To accomplish this, we will strive to:

• Engage in on-going curriculum development which is authentically rooted in problem solving and higher-order skills.

• Establish standards that honor diversity and the values of justice, tolerance, community and relationships.    

• Recognize that all children can learn and hold high expectations for the success of each student. 

• Teach in ways that empower all students regardless of economic, religious, cultural, familial or educational differences.

• Recognize that the leadership to achieve this end is shared collaboratively, not directionally, and each member has a responsibility to participate in the betterment of the whole.

• Remain visionary and innovative in all forms of outstanding instructional practice.

• Remember that we are not alone on this journey.  Education at St. Madeleine Sophie's is not something we do "to" or "for" families, but "with" them.

We, as teachers, serve as collaborators in a process in which students become able to actively participate in an increasingly diverse and technologically complex world.  Our curriculum, instruction, assessment - and our continuing education to ensure that outcome - all need to embrace that understanding.