Upper School Preview Book 2019-2020

Confidence. Excellence.

Sisterhood.

Upper School at Stone Ridge

Confidence. Excellence. Sisterhood.

Experience where these come to life every day in Stone Ridge’s vibrant Sacred Heart community— offering first-rate academic, art, athletic, and service programs.

At Stone Ridge, we encourage our girls to set high goals, and we provide the skills and support to advance them.

The girls gain confidence through steadfast effort, with faith—in God, self, and community—at the core of it all.

This is the magic of the five Goals of Sacred Heart education,

put into action.

Five Goals of Sacred Heart Education Goal I · A PERSONAL AND ACTIVE FAITH IN GOD Goal II · A DEEP RESPECT FOR INTELLECTUAL VALUES Goal III · A SOCIAL AWARENESS WHICH IMPELS TO ACTION Goal IV · THE BUILDING OF COMMUNITY AS A CHRISTIAN VALUE Goal V · PERSONAL GROWTH IN AN ATMOSPHERE OF WISE FREEDOM

Our Sacred Heart

Family

Founded in 1923 by the Society of the Sacred Heart, Stone Ridge is a member of the International Network of Sacred Heart Schools, with 24 schools and affiliates in the United States/Canada, and over 150 schools in 41 countries worldwide.

This sense of belonging to a worldwide network and mission is a richly powerful aspect of our identity.

The Goals and Criteria of Sacred Heart education defines the mission of Sacred Heart schools as part of the Society’s educational mission in the Catholic Church.

This mission finds its source in the vision of Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat who began her work as an educator in 1800 when she founded the Society in France.

A Global

Education Stone Ridge attracts and reflects a dynamic international community, as a school that serves a diverse student body. Representing many cultures and ethnic groups from around the world, our students benefit from a global education first and foremost in the friendships they make while here. In addition, our dynamic curriculum opens our students up to the world at large, preparing them for a world without borders. Our International Network of Sacred Heart Schools also allows students the chance to study at one of our sister schools on exchange.

Seal of Biliteracy

Stone Ridge awards the Seal of Biliteracy to students who have studied and attained proficiency in two or more languages by graduation. The Seal is a national initiative; currently 33 states and the District of Columbia have approved the Seal. As members of an international network of schools, Stone Ridge students are aware of the power that knowledge of a second language holds, both linguistically and culturally. Stone Ridge is the first Catholic school in Maryland to award the Seal of Biliteracy.

Network of Sacred Heart Schools in the United States BC

AB

WA MT

OR CA

SK

ID

NB

WI

CO

MO

KS NM AZ

OH

IN

IL

OK

LA

MS

AL

NC SC

Duchesne Academy Houston, TX The Regis School Houston, TX

NS

NH VT MA RI

Academy of the Sacred Heart Bloomfield Hills, MI Newton Country Day School Newton, MA Convent of the Sacred Heart Greenwich, CT Sprout Creek Farm Poughkeepsie, NY Convent of the Sacred Heart New York City, NY

CT NJ

Stuart Country Day School Princeton, NJ

DE MD

Princeton Academy Princeton, NJ Country Day School of the Sacred Heart Bryn Mawr, PA Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart Bethesda, MD Josephinum Academy Chicago, IL

GA

Sacred Heart Schools Chicago, IL

Schools of the Sacred Heart San Francisco, CA Sacred Heart Schools Atherton, CA

PA

WV VA

TN

AR

ME NY

KY

TX

Forrest Ridge School Bellevue, WA

MI

IA

NE

QC

ON

MN SD

WY

UT

Sacred Heart School of Halifax Halifax

MB

ND

NV

Sacred Heart School of Montreal Montreal

Barat Academy Dardenne Prairie, MO

FL

Academy of the Sacred Heart St. Charles, MO

Woodlands Academy Lake Forest, IL Carrolton School of the Sacred Heart Miami, FL

Villa Duchesne/Oak Hill School St. Louis, MO Academy of the Sacred Heart New Orleans, LA

Network Schools

Academy of the Sacred Heart Grand Coteau, LA

Associated with the Network

Duchesne Academy Omaha, NE

Network Exchange Program

Our Network Exchange Program, offered sophomore year, allows students to study in a sister Sacred Heart school in the United States or abroad. Stone Ridge also welcomes students from across the Network.

“The most amazing part of going on exchange was learning about and growing to love a culture in many ways completely different from my own. While I did experience a bit of a culture shock upon arriving in France, I quickly grew to appreciate the people, places, food, and experiences around me. Learning to love a culture different from my own has really opened my eyes to the idea of being a “citizen of the world”, and, therefore, has inspired me to learn more about others’ beliefs and cultures. I have found that this trip has helped me to understand others more easily, grow in my empathy, and further enjoy meeting others and experiencing new cultures!”

— Isabela ’20

Provisional Member

A commitment to a personal and active faith in God is made possible through our retreat program, Campus Ministry leadership, sacramental life, and the development of self through contemplative practices.

Goal I • Faith

Through the education of young women, St. Madeleine Sophie Barat and the Religious of the Sacred Heart set out to make known the love of God revealed in the Heart of Christ. Our philosophy is to serve each child individually and personally, helping her use her talents and gifts to fulfill the role God intended for her.

Goal II • Intellect

In the classroom, our students distinguish themselves not only as great critical thinkers and skilled learners in a dynamic academic landscape, but also as young women with a conscience and a will to serve. It is evident to all of our students that our mission, as a school of the Sacred Heart, is to empower them with knowledge and skills in order to create a productive life for themselves and become lifelong learners. We also prepare them to become leaders and agents of change.

A commitment to a deep respect for intellectual values is manifested by an extraordinary faculty, holding doctorates and masters, along with challenging curricula based on research on how girls learn best. Through the use of four, 80-minute class periods each day, our students are provided with the opportunity to delve deeply into a robust offering of courses.

On Social Action days (12 Wednesdays throughout the year), the Upper School community gathers for a morning presentation, departs for action, and returns for small group reflection. In freshman year, students are guided by senior leaders in six major areas of social justice—Care and Concern for the Elderly, Understanding Disabilities, Stewardship of the Environment, Human Rights, Childcare & Education, and Poverty & Homelessness.

Goal III • Service

St. Madeleine Sophie Barat knew that when a child knows that she is loved by God she can transform the world. Every part of our Social Action program is rooted in this fundamental insight. Stone Ridge students recognize their capacity to transform, to become powerful agents of God’s love and compassion, and to step out of their comfort zones to serve the poor, marginalized, and suffering in our region and throughout the world.

Goal IV • Community

Stone Ridge creates a family environment where we build a collective, group experience, yet also continually focus on and celebrate the needs and gifts of each person. Our students have plenty of common ground in the form of traditions, values, skills, and knowledge, and yet they have a remarkable sense of and appreciation for personal identity.

The result: the development of strong, confident, competent, service-oriented leaders.

The School commits to the building of community as a Christian value by offering opportunities for girls to grow relationships. A typical day opens with a student-led Assembly, allowing the community to gather.

Programming such as a weekly Advisory meeting and the Freshmen Academic Seminar build community by allowing small groups to focus on social-emotional and academic development.

Goal V • Growth

At Stone Ridge, we provide opportunities for our girls to understand their gifts and talents and to develop the habits of mind and body that will allow those gifts to flourish. It is an essential ingredient in the formation of strong leadership qualities that we see consistently in our Stone Ridge girls and alumnae. Stone Ridge promotes leadership, self-acceptance, self-confidence, pushing limitations and risk-taking, respect for self and others, self-discipline, and personal responsibility.

Stone Ridge girls exercise personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom through our distinctive student leadership program fostering independence and personal responsibility from all participants.

This extensive offering includes: • elected student bodies • appointed student boards • diversity and culture groups • interscholastic teams • social awareness groups • performance and art groups • after-school clubs • reflection groups • ad hoc committees

Join the Team Athletics are an extension of Stone Ridge’s educational mission. We aspire to develop Champions for Life by providing young women with an intentional and physically challenging athletic experience, inspiring not only competitive grace, but also lifelong healthy habits and a physical awareness of oneself. Through our whole child approach to coaching and teaching which complements the five Goals of Sacred Heart education, we guide each girl to be the best version of themselves through sport.

Opportunities abound for students to display their spirit: Blue Gold Induction and Team Challenges, Gator Game Day, CongĂŠs, Father Daughter Field Day, Powder Puff Football Game, Gator Bonfire...and more!

ATHLETIC OFFERINGS

Basketball Crew Cross Country Equestrian Field Hockey Golf Ice Hockey Lacrosse Soccer Softball Squash Swimming & Diving Tennis Track & Field Volleyball

With over 14 different sports, the program offers a strong array of athletic opportunities. And Stone Ridge is a leader of these sports in its competitive league, the Independent School League, which consists of 15 schools. Stone Ridge is proud of the countless student-athletes who are recognized as All-Met and All-ISL each year, and have taken their passion for playing sports to college with them and participated on teams for their universities.

Creative Expression and Innovation The Arts teach our girls how to communicate across cultures and generations as expressive members of a global society. Our programs allow the girls to gradually develop technical and conceptual skills for critical thinking, risk-taking, decisionmaking, and problem solving.

The Performing Arts program awakens within our students their ability to create, perform, and respond through the vehicle of the practice and performance. The Visual Arts program presents our students with an understanding of historical and cultural context, in addition to traditions of visual expression.

The Arts blend with our STEM programming throughout cross-curricular lessons and activities, that involve inquiry and design. The design process may take the form of an experimental design, an engineering project, or a work of art. Inquiry-based learning and design thinking are woven through all levels of the curriculum to inspire students to think independently and to teach them to engage confidently with real-world problems.

Our STEM Certificate Program is offered for girls to pursue additional math and science courses, internships or research experiences, compete and participate in various competitions and presentations, and create an online portfolio in which they document their accomplishments.

A Portrait of a Graduate

Goal 5

A great Sacred Heart education is both timeless and timely—the skills and knowledge gained transcend time, and the values instilled at Stone Ridge are values that serve as a roadmap for life. We have consistently educated our graduates to be female leaders in their families, in their communities, in the Church, in their industries, and in our world.

As children of the Sacred Heart, we are each called to live not only for ourselves, but also to make the world a better place. The charism of the Sacred Heart is about bringing the heart of Christ into the world, and finding it in the world—finding it in the people we meet, the opportunities we have, and the beautiful world around us. It is not only our job to bring the heart of Christ into the world, but we must work to find it.

Once a child of the Sacred Heart, always a child of the Sacred Heart.

This home is our home, not just today but for our lifetime.

College Acceptances and Matriculations

Below is a list of college acceptances for the Class of 2019. Names in bold are schools attended by members of the Class of 2019.

American University University of Arizona Babson College Barnard College Universita Bocconi, Italy Boston College (6) Boston University University of British Columbia Bucknell University University of California, Berkeley University of California, Los Angeles Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University Catholic University of America Chapman University

College of Charleston University of Chicago Christopher Newport University Claremont McKenna College Clemson University Colby College Colgate University University of Colorado at Boulder Columbia University Connecticut College Cornell University Culinary Institute of America Dartmouth College Davidson College University of Dayton

Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world.

St. Madeleine Sophie Barat, Foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart

University of Delaware Denison University University of Denver Dickinson College Drexel University Duke University University of Edinburgh, Scotland Elon University (2) Emerson College Emory University Fairfield University Florida Institute of Technology Fordham University (2) Furman University George Washington University (2) Georgetown University (5) Harvard University Haverford College High Point University College of the Holy Cross Howard University Indiana University at Bloomington (2) James Madison University

Johns Hopkins University Kühne Logistics University, Germany Lafayette College Lehigh University The London School of

Economics & Political Science Loyola Marymount University Loyola University Chicago Loyola University Maryland Loyola University New Orleans Marist College Marquette University University of Maryland, Baltimore County University of Maryland, College Park (4) University of Massachusetts, Boston McGill University University of Miami University of Michigan Middlebury College University of Mississippi (2) New York University University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Northeastern University (2)

Northwestern University (2) University of Notre Dame (2) Oberlin College Pace University, New York City Pennsylvania State University University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh Pomona College Pratt Institute Princeton University Providence College Reed College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute University of Richmond Rochester Institute of Technology Saint Joseph’s University Saint Michael’s College University of San Diego University of San Francisco Santa Clara University Siena College University of South Carolina University of Southern California

Southern Methodist University Spelman College (2) University of St Andrews St. John’s University Stanford University Swarthmore College Syracuse University Towson University Tufts University Tulane University (4) University of Vermont Villanova University (3) Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Tech (2) University of Virginia Wake Forest University University of Washington Washington University in St. Louis College of William & Mary Williams College University of Wisconsin, Madison Xavier University (2) Yale University

We want to encourage them in their path forward towards humanization. We hope to create cultures in our institutions in which interiority may be developed simultaneously with critical thinking, compassion and faith. We are committed to educating to astonishment so that young people may encounter Mystery.

In this moment and experience, we sense that the young will come to see themselves as God does-fully alive imbued with Christ’s Spirit. We know young people are endowed by grace.

We have complete confidence in their capacity to be inspired agents of transformation.

International Heads of School Conference, Network of Sacred Heart Schools

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