YEARS PROGRAM ( MYP) SHA MISSION STATEMENT Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart is a community committed to providing young women with a comprehensive, balanced and challenging Catholic education rooted in the core values of the Franciscan tradition. We graduate young women with intellectual preparedness, spiritual grounding, commitment to service and the leadership skills necessary to have a positive impact on the world. (DP), a rigorous but accessible comprehensive curriculum for 11th and 12th graders. Next, individual IB course offerings became available to juniors and seniors not enrolled in the full program to expand their academic options. This enabled the benefits of an IB style of education to be shared with more students. SHA has seen the benefits of IB programming in the quantitative success of student achievement and the qualitative success of creating thoughtful and capable learners. Following our strategic plan, the benefits of IB programming will be made available to students in all grades moving forward. In the spring of 2024, Sacred Heart became a candidate school for the Middle Years Program (MYP) and will spend this year working toward authorization of the MYP at SHA. Through the adoption of the MYP, all freshwomen and sophomores will participate and benefit from the pedagogical framework of IB. Classrooms become places of inquiry and discovery through real-world application of concepts. Students are evaluated based on their usage of developed skills and their ability to apply knowledge to contemporary and relevant situations. Students have opportunities to explore their passions through personal projects and experience interdisciplinary learning and authentic, real-world assessment tasks. The MYP, like all of IB’s programs, is aimed at developing learners and thinkers, caring and competent citizens of the world. In other words, offering IB opportunities for all SHA students is the next step along the Sisters’ path to provide young women with the educational advantages necessary to positively impact the world. SPIRIT. MIND. BODY. CORDECHO 9 IB Learner Profile Attributes Franciscan Values • Inquirers • Thinkers • Communicators • Hospitality • Service • Creativity • Joy • Peacemaking • Care for Creation • Compassion • Respect for the dignity of human person • Trust in the Providence of God • Open-Minded • Risk Takers • Balanced • Principled • Caring • Knowledgeable • Reflective
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