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REVERENCE and RESPECT for each student as a unique person is critical to Catalyst’s success. We foster respectful relationships as a key to building a mutually supportive community that sets high expectations and demands mutual responsibility. The GOLDEN RULE is the foundation at the Catalyst Schools. By internalizing the demand of the Golden Rule, that we treat one another as we would like to be treated, we join together to promote justice and peace. 

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Relationship:  The heart of the Catalyst Schools is the bond, both professional and personal, that we build with one another among staff and with our students and their parents.  No teaching or learning will take place unless teachers are able to forge positive and appropriate relationships with their students and the parents who entrust their children to our care.  Positive, healthy, and appropriate relationship is the source of change.  The trust and love of a student for his or her teacher unleashes the behaviors that lead to success.

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Rigor:  All faculty and staff are called to dedication and commitment for the well-being of the children we serve.  This includes high academic standards, a consistent and healthy culture of peace and calm throughout the school, a discipline code that is a teaching tool, and respect for each person’s talents, skills, and unique gifts.  Students are brought to higher levels of functioning and thinking through a no-nonsense academic program built on solid research. 

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As a Lasallian school, we seek to exemplify the 12 virtues of a teacher in all of our interactions with our school community.

●    GRAVITY seriousness, establish good order and classroom management
●    SILENCE speak when necessary, know what is important and what is not
●    PRUDENCE choose appropriate means to achieve a worthy goal
●    HUMILITY realize we have nothing that has not been given to us and we are called to share for the sake of others
●    WISDOM a deep understanding of what is worthy of our effort
●    PATIENCE peaceful possession of our very self – self-control – right perspective
●    RESERVE think, speak, and act with moderation, discretion, and modesty. 
●    GENTLENESS goodness, tenderness, sensitivity – right relationship
●    ZEAL go the extra mile, do what is needed for the child’s success
●    VIGILANCE diligence in all of our duties, being accountable for the stewardship that has been entrusted to us
●    REVERENCE examine and be comfortable with the deepest parts of our very self and our relationship with the rest of creation and our understanding of life itself
●    GENEROSITY sacrifice our personal interests to those of our neighbor and those in need. It comes from awareness that we are not the center of the universe.
 

 

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