Portrait of a Graduate


Our Portrait of a Graduate serves as the framework for designing and implementing our integrated, global curriculum, rooted in the Sacred Heart Goals.  With a firm commitment to our core values, we prepare our students to think critically, embrace challenges, model resilience, confront injustice, seek equality and lead globally. Our alumni are poised to change the world.

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Innovative Problem Solver

  • Responds to real-world issues with original and useful solutions
  • Examines issues from diverse, creative, and entrepreneurial perspectives
  • Leverages technology to create new knowledge and understanding
  • Takes appropriate risks and learns from failure
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Agile Thinker

  • Adjusts as new challenges and opportunities arise
  • Adapts knowledge to make fresh connections
  • Actively seeks opportunities to stretch learning
  • Negotiates differences to foster collaboration and connection among people
  • Learns from and applies feedback

Authentic Leader

  • Faces challenges with confidence and resilience
  • Listens with openness, respect, and empathy
  • Communicates clearly and authentically
  • Supports and celebrates the success of others
  • Practices personal well-being
  • Demonstrates autonomy over her own body, voice and choices
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Global Citizen

  • Seeks to understand the natural and cultural complexities of problems
  • Takes responsibility for her impact on the world
  • Advocates for equity and justice
  • Demonstrates personal, social, and civic responsibility
  • Acts as a steward of the earth's resources

Principled Contributor

  • Lives with integrity from her core values
  • Develops significant and reciprocal relationships for service
  • Uses prayer and reflection to grow in faith
  • Expresses respect, compassion, forgiveness and generosity
  • Values and protects the dignity of others