Dear Mercy Community,

As we continue to roll out our Mercy Education Core Values, we will be centering each Oaks around one Core Value beginning with Educational Courage.

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The term Educational Courage is in itself unique and strong. Where many schools set their student learning outcomes to include the standard term of academic excellence, Mercy Education boldly proclaims the core value of Educational Courage. To be educationally courageous speaks to the journey one must take to fully see through their curiosity and thirst for knowledge; to be educationally courageous, students must approach life with a fearlessness towards those things that they desire to better understand and change in our world. When students are willing to take the leap of faith required to truly be educationally courageous, they nurture their critical thinking skills alongside their character and reach their full potential.

Like our students, Mercy High School must welcome the challenge of pursuing our full potential by ensuring we develop a culture that promotes educational courage. As such, we have been busy this year developing our Pathways Program and designing new courses to offer our students such as Leadership Development, AP Seminar, Introduction to Engineering Design, AP Precalculus, Medical Interventions, and International Relations.

We are committed to challenging ourself as an institution so we may transform into the Mercy our students need today— a Mercy that fosters and celebrates educational courage.

Sincerely,

Natalie Cirigliano Brosnan, ’02 Ed.D. HEAD OF SCHOOL