Blessed Sacrament Catholic School receives Certificate of Honorable Mention!

  

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Center for Community of Caring has selected Blessed Sacrament Catholic School to receive a Certificate of Honorable Mention for its participation in the 2009 State/National Schools of Character (SSOC/NSOC) awards program.  The SSOC review committee received and reviewed applications from schools and districts who have implemented character education programs of exceptionally high quality.  Based on the evidence presented in our application, narrative, and portfolio, the SSOC has awarded us Honorable Mention!
Evidence consisted of completing a lengthy application, 7 page narrative, and 25 page portfolio based on the Eleven Principles of Character Education.  The judges scored us a 3.4 out of 4.0!  The purpose of the SSOC/NSOC awards program is twofold:  1) to identify exemplary schools and districts to serve as models for others; and 2) to help schools and districts improve their efforts in effective character education.  It was evident to the SSOC/NSOC through our portfolio presentation that character development is integral to our mission. 
Our school community should be extremely proud of our innovative and successful character education ideas and practices.  We have been invited by the SSOC/NSOC to submit our Principal’s Bobcat 200 Club and Family Mentoring Program to the Character Education Partnership (CEP) for a Promising Practices award.  The applications for these two programs have been submitted and we should know by June if we have a winning program.  You may recall that our Interfaith Meditation Garden won a 2008 National Promising Practice Award. 
We would like to share an excerpt from the Community of Caring, “On behalf of CEP and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Center for Community of Caring, we thank you for your commitment to implementing a quality character education initiative and helping form good character in Utah’s youth.”
If you would like to view a copy of our application, please contact Sonia West, who will be happy to show it to you! 

 

-Judy Julian and Anne Adams are listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers. Who's Who honors our nation's most respected teachers. Both were nominated by students in 2004. Who's Who Among America's Teachers was first published in 1990. We are honored to have two such outstanding educators and administrators on our staff.

    

 - National Science Mobile Discovery Center in Georgia is bringing their mobile science lab to Blessed Sacrament School on October 3! Housed in 18-wheelers, the mobile centers travel across the country, presenting programs designed to show young people that studying science and math is fun as well as essential to their future. This is a hands-on, interactive science demonstration. This is a part of the Outreach program sponsored by the National Science Center and the U.S. Army.