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Four SHA teachers selected to participate in Holocaust education in-service program

LOUISVILLE, KY (June 2006) - SHA faculty members Phyllis Donlon, Danielle Popp, Catherine Sipperley, and Sr. Stephanie Youstra were accepted to participate in the Holocaust Education In-Service Program sponsored by the Jewish Community Federation of Louisville, Inc. The goal of the annual program is to educate teachers about the Holocaust and help them develop lesson plans to teach it accurately and effectively.

Forty teachers from the Louisville-area were selected to participate. The three-day program in June includes a tour of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. and two lectures: “Lesson of the Holocaust” and “Teaching the Holocaust.”

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Sacred Heart Academy ((SHA), founded in 1877, is a college preparatory secondary school for girls, and is the only Catholic high school in Kentucky to offer the International Baccalaureate program. Ninety-nine percent of SHA graduates attend hundreds of colleges and universities across the country, and the Academy has almost 9,000 alumnae worldwide. In addition to being a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, SHA celebrates more than 70 state athletic championship titles. In 2006, SHA students earned 9.2 million in college scholarships. http://www.sacredheartacad.com/