What is the Sacred Heart Network
The Network of Sacred Heart Schools is an association of twenty-one Sacred Heart schools across the United States. Together they are dedicated to the values of Christian education articulated nearly two hundred years ago by the foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart, Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat. In the Goals and Criteria of 2005--the document which defines the scope and vision of Sacred Heart education in the United States--the present generation of Sacred Heart educators has expressed its commitment to educate students to:
- a personal and active faith in God,
- a deep respect for intellectual values,
- a social awareness which impels to action,
- the building of community as a Christian value, and
- personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom.
While these five goals unite the twenty-one schools of the Network in the United States, the schools enjoy an even wider affiliation with the people and institutions associated with the Society of the Sacred Heart in forty-four countries around the globe. This truly international character of Sacred Heart education helps to foster an important global awareness in our students as we strive to build a more just world.
Sprout Creek Farm originated at the Sacred Heart School in Greenwich, CT in 1982 and moved in 1990 to its current location in the Mid-Hudson River Valley. From its beginnings to the present, SCF has offered programs to all students in Network Schools.
