ACE Haiti
The University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education
Report on Five Years of Transformative Progress
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Dear Friends, Greetings from Our Lady’s University! Thanks to the generous support of our many benefactors, partners and friends, ACE has helped to make significant strides to rebuild and enhance the vitality of Haitian Catholic schools since the devastating earthquake of 2010. Over these past five years, we have surveyed and mapped 2,315 Catholic schools, trained 1,000 teachers, created new school boards and parent associations in 200 Catholic schools, and launched a literacy initiative in fifty-two Catholic schools that has already benefitted 7,000 first- and second-grade students. We also have rebuilt and transformed Basile Moreau School, which was completely destroyed in the earthquake, doubling its size and fostering its growth as a lab for innovation in Haitian education.
“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” Matthew 25:40
With a new Holy Cross school, a nation-wide literacy initiative, and a new teacher training institute, along with a number of other initiatives geared toward transforming Haitian Catholic education, children throughout Haiti are benefitting from a targeted educational experience. None of these accomplishments could have been made without your incredible support. Your commitment to serving God’s most vulnerable children is a true blessing, and we hope that our efforts so far are simply the beginning of an ever-deepening partnership with the people of Haiti. Devotedly Yours in Notre Dame, Rev. Timothy R. Scully, C.S.C. Hackett Family Director, Institute for Educational Initiatives, University of Notre Dame
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ACE Haiti at a Glance
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The Earthquake
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Strengthening the Congregation of Holy Cross in Haiti
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Rebuilding and Renewing Basile Moreau School
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Constructing a new Holy Cross school
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Reaching rural, impoverished Holy Cross schools
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Training teachers with the Congregation of Holy Cross
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Transforming Haitian Catholic Education
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A Leader in Global Literacy Instruction
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Training Teachers and Engaging School Communities at Scale
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Engaging Partners
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ACE Haiti Fellows
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Thank You
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ACE Haiti at a Glance Timeline of ACE Haiti Activities 2006 ACE begins exploring partnership with the Congregation of Holy Cross, which runs twenty-five schools has served in Haiti for seventy years. 2010 Earthquake devastates capital city of Port-au-Prince and much of the Haitian infrastructure. University of Notre Dame pledges to help the devastated country led by the Alliance for Catholic Education’s partnership with the Congregation of Holy Cross. 2011 ACE Haiti works to rebuild Holy Cross’s flagship school, Basile Moreau School.
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2012 With ACE’s support, Holy Cross launches teacher training institute in the north of Haiti. ACE Haiti, CRS, and Church partners conduct assessment of Haiti’s 2,315 Catholic schools. ACE Haiti receives grant from W.K. Kellogg Foundation to work with CRS and the Church to support training of 1,000 teachers and creation of governance structures in 200 schools. 2014 ACE Haiti supports quality interventions at Basile Moreau School. 2014: ACE Haiti receives grant to launch “Read to Learn” early-grade literacy project, in partnership with the Church and CRS, in fifty-two Haitian Catholic schools.
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7,000
first- and second-grade students participating in ACE Haiti’s “Read to Learn” Literacy Program (2014-2016)
$14 million
raised or committed to strengthen Haitian Catholic schools
2,315
Catholic schools surveyed and mapped on GPS software
1,000
1,000 primary school teachers trained, benefiting over 35,000 students (2012-2016)
80 percent
of Haitian dioceses benefiting from large-scale projects to support Catholic education from ACE or CRS partners
Over 100
need-based, five-year scholarships raised for Basile Moreau School students
Two
Holy Cross schools constructed
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Responding to the Earthquake
In response to the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti, a disaster that killed and injured hundreds of thousands, displaced millions, and shattered the infrastructure of the nation’s capital, ACE sought to help the Holy Cross community recover and rebuild. The Congregation determined that Basile Moreau School, the flagship Holy Cross School in Port-au-Prince and long an academic powerhouse in the country, needed to be rebuilt. 8
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Strengthening Holy Cross in Haiti While students studied in tents, work began to strengthen and reinforce the primary school. The school’s secondary building was completely destroyed, but through the efforts of colleagues from across the University, ACE was able to reach out to friends and benefactors and help rebuild the school—doubling the building’s size and designing a beautiful oasis for learning in the midst of a bustling neighborhood. As the school buildings neared completion, a campus beautification project began, giving the 1,000 students at Basile Moreau a safe and beautiful place to learn and play.
“For me, after the earthquake, I felt like life didn’t have any sense anymore. Life was so difficult already. People had so little and then they lost what little they had. I was very discouraged. I lost my cousin. I lost my best friend from seminary who died at Quisqueya University. And we lost our school. But it is amazing how God works. From unspeakable tragedy, God makes miracles.” Fr. Rosemond Marcelin, CSC; Principal, Basile Moreau Primary School
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Students attended Basile Moreau School in tents for three years after the earthquake while funds were raised and construction completed.
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Basile Moreau: A Center of Innovation In 2013-2014, ACE Haiti and generous benefactors helped Basile Moreau implement: • a digital learning pilot and three new computer labs • a beautified campus and new sports facilities • enhanced English language programs • the development of a school-based health clinic
“When I am older, I would like to become a pediatrician so that I can help children.” Linehan scholar Herlune Mykensia Blaise Age 13 Eighth Grade Likes singing, dancing, French, and computer science
• a Summer Fellowship program for an ACE graduate and an ACE Ireland graduate • 100 need-based five-year scholarships ACE Haiti organized a health screening for all Basile Moreau students.
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Constructing a New Holy Cross School ACE Haiti secured support from the Digicel Foundation to construct a new Holy Cross primary school in a growing, under-resourced neighborhood of Port-au-Prince called Tabarre. This will become a large, pre-k to 12th grade campus with an innovative focus on English and technology.
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Reaching Rural, Impoverished Holy Cross Schools ACE Haiti has begun to work with local partners to respond to the needs of rural, impoverished Holy Cross schools, seeking to improve the quality of education and make a sustainable, transformative difference in the lives of Haiti’s under-served children.
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Holy Cross Teacher Training Institute
Only 30% of Haitian teachers are credentialed, and many lack even basic skills in reading and mathematics. 14
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Assessing the Needs of Haitian Catholic Schools In 2011, the University of Notre Dame’s ACE Haiti Initiative worked with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and the Episcopal Commission for Catholic Education (CEEC) to assess the needs of Haitian Catholic schools. The project facilitated a national planning process with Haiti’s Catholic school leaders, including mapping and geo-coding Haiti’s 2,315 Catholic schools, providing educational leaders with an interactive and searchable map and database, and identifying top priorities of the Haitian Church.
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Since 2012, with ACE Haiti’s support, the Congregation of Holy Cross has trained 150 teachers to date.
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Transforming Lives Through Literacy
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Global research is clear: students must learn to read, in order to read to learn. To be successful in math, science, and all other subject areas, students must become competent, proficient readers in the early grades.
In the fall of 2014, ACE Haiti continued its partnership with the CEEC and CRS by launching “Read to Learn,� a high-impact literacy intervention in fifty-two Haitian Catholic schools.
Forty-nine percent of Haitian students cannot read a single word when they enter third grade (Gove 2010; USAID 2012) .
This project will serve 7,000 students, train approximately 130 teachers, and deploy a culturally relevant reading curriculum in which students learn to read in both their mother tongue, Creole, as well as French.
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A Leader in Global Literacy Instruction The University of Notre Dame and ACE Haiti are also driving pioneering new research. Professors Mark Berends of the University of Notre Dame and Andrew Elliot of the University of Rochester are working with ACE faculty and staff to study the effects of this literacy and teacher training intervention on student motivation and teachers’ sense of efficacy, with the promise of informing and enhancing the design of this approach in Haiti and beyond.
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Training Teachers and Engaging School Communities at Scale ACE Haiti, CRS, and the CEEC implemented a large-scale project to train 1,000 primary school teachers and establish governance structures in 200 Catholic schools in three of Haiti’s ten dioceses, benefiting 28,000 students and tens of thousands more over time.
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Engaging Partners With a commitment to share the knowledge and experience gained, ACE Haiti has engaged leading partners to support broader efforts to strengthen education in the country. ACE Haiti supported Partners in Health, a leading non-profit focused on health and human development, with an assessment and strategic plan for its network of nearly fifty rural schools in Haiti’s Central Plateau. ACE Haiti also supported the W.K. Kellogg Foundation with a feasibility study and initial design support for the creation of a philanthropic Education Fund, which promises to continue to drive improvements and innovation in Haiti for generations to come.
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ACE Haiti Fellows One of ACE’s greatest assets is its network of committed young leaders and graduates. In the summer of 2015, ACE Haiti is launching a new Haiti Fellows summer program in which four young educators, two American ACE graduates and two Irish educators, will engage in professional service at Basile Moreau School, focused on literacy, technology utilization, and English programs.
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With profound gratitude, we’d like to thank the following for their generous support: Foundations
Benefactors
Aon Foundation Catholic Relief Services Coca Cola Foundation Digicel Foundation Goldman Sachs Jones Day Foundation Let’s Share the Sun Foundation Linehan Family Foundation St. Edward’s High School
Biolchini, Robert Brenninkmeyer, Frank Brenninkmeyer, Bernard Cari, Joe Croghan, John Crotty, Tom Duda, Fritz Esposito Gallo, Joseph
Verizon Foundation W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Glynn, Barbara Hessert, William, Jr. Hessert, William Jordan, John II Keogh, Donald Kopko, Mary Beth Kunkler Larkin, Tom Linbeck Nanovic, Robert
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McKenna, Andy Morrison Paese, Michael Perera Pacas, Rodrigo Remick, Jack and Mary Ann Rooney, Francis Trustey, Joe Stinson, Ken Waller, John and Kelly
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