Catholic High School offers a challenging, up-to-date curriculum for all grades. We strive to develop competent, self-directed 21st century learners through seven classroom goals that we call Panther 21: student engagement; information, visual, and cultural literacy; personal, social, and civic responsibility; global awareness; higher-order thinking; effective communication; and teaming and collaboration. Academic excellence is assured through rigorous courses, technology integration, cross-curricular activities, and teacher professional development.
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"The Interactions that happen [in classrooms] just need to be really, really different—because the world is just such a different place now." - Will Richardson
Questions That Steer Lesson Design
- Are the good old days good enough?
- Where are the boundaries of today's classroom?
- Should learning be just a spectator sport?
- What is more important—the answer or the question?
- Do we make learning irresistible?
How We're Making Learning Different
- Accelerated Reader Program grades 4‐5
- Presentation systems in 100% of classrooms
- Interactive white boards and student response systems in all high school core classrooms
- 10 interactive classrooms grades 4‐8
- Speech Night Performance Program grades 4-8
- Science and Social Studies Fairs grades 6-12
- District and State Speech and Literary Rally
- Veterans' Day Prayer Service and Celebration
- Math, Speech, Art, Quiz Bowl, and Writing Contests
- Carnegie Unit courses for grade 8: Physical Science H, Algebra I H, CTA (Computer Technology Applications
- Math, reading, speech remediation grades 4-8
- Honors and regular level courses grades 6-12
- AP Calculus and Studio Art
- Dual Enrollment ENGL 101 and 102; HIST 101, 102, 201, and 202 (partnered with LaTech University)
- Louisiana Virtual School (LVS) courses
- Moodle Course Management System for hybrid courses
- Social Studies Holocaust Unit, English Poe-a-Tree Day, Foreign Language Culture Days, and Science Mole Day in grades 9-12
- Social Studies Culture Days grades 6‐8
- Ye Olde and Young Ren Fest by grade 12 for St. Edward grade 3 and CHS 4‐5
- Stanford 10 score analysis and integration
- Duke University grade 7 Talent Search Scholars
- National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) grade 8
- EXPLORE, PLAN, ACT, PSAT/NMSQT in-class test preparation and analysis
- New teacher two-year induction program
- Technology- and department-centered professional development.
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