Jennifer Eliezer '09 recently received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to travel to rural Costa Rica to work as an English teaching assistant to post-secondary students. Jennifer will support the teaching of English at Instituto Nacional de Aprendizaje as part of a project to support Alliance for Bilinguilism in San Carlos.

With school back in session, those of you with pre-school and elementary aged children have likely stopped into your son’s and daughter’s classrooms for a Back-to-School Night to experience what happens there on a daily basis. In a room full of colors and textures, reading nooks and games, and projects with crooked sentences arching off the page, it can be hard to visualize what academic excellence looks like for these early learners. But academic rigor is not only present in the classrooms that serve our youngest students, it defines our teaching methodology.

In the biggest Alumnae Reunion to date, over 250 alumnae returned to King Street to reconnect with former classmates, teacher and administrators last weekend.

This year, six Sacred Heart Greenwich students have been named Commended Students in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program: Malika Amoruso, Caroline Badagliacca, Katherine Harkins, Sydney Kim, Erin O’Connor, and Eliza Stanley.