Category Archives: Community Reflections

As an elementary school teacher, an education of the heart means delving deeper than the child’s grade point average and benchmark proficiency.  On a small scale, this can include their favorite color, recess games and after school activities.  Even more … Continue reading →

For me, teaching is a calling, a humble vocation.  When I meet with student teachers, I tell them that academic success is not enough. I remind them of the words of Mother Cabrini.  Exemplary teaching is a marriage of the head and the … Continue reading →

The phrase “Education of the Heart” means that Cabrini College does more than improve the minds of its students. This mission educates the whole student. An education of the heart works closely with the student and takes into account their … Continue reading →

He believed the heart was the true center of our human intelligence and not the brain. To be a student of the heart is to study God’s blueprint for mankind. We are more than a bundle of biology. We are … Continue reading →

To me Education of the Heart Means that we go deep inside every student to educate not only the mind but also the goodness within, so that by the time a student graduates, he or she not only can give … Continue reading →

Education of the Heart is a powerful phrase. These words are so short and to the point, but not simple at all. Education of the Heart to me speaks to being all that we can be as learners. Reaching levels … Continue reading →

As a current student teacher, I am given opportunities each and every day to reach my goals and chase my dreams, and I hope my students can see that anything is possible. Being able to motivate those around me to … Continue reading →

“Education of the Heart” encapsulates St. Frances Xavier Cabrini’s approach to reaching and teaching each and every learner.  Before phrases such as “Differentiated Instruction”, “Universal Design”, I.D.E.A., or Core Curriculum flowed from the lips of educators or legislators,  Mother Cabrini … Continue reading →

Education of the heart is simply doing something more for others than you do for yourself. To have the attitude of wanting to help another person who can never repay you back that favor is education of the heart in … Continue reading →

I have always believed that being smart is not the greatest virtue–heavily a matter of genetics, I suspect.  The real virtue from my perspective is being nice: that takes work–hard work–and assumes a variety of other qualities like patience and … Continue reading →