Saint Peter's Prep Profile of an Ignatian Educator

Ignatian Educators are reflective people.

• We reflect in our daily lives.
• We teach students how to reflect in their thinking, reading, and writing.
• We instill in our students a sense of reflection that leads to a passionate commitment to being lifelong learners.
• We reflect on the world around us, exposing students to new opportunities.

Ignatian Educators value discernment.

• We discern our own gifts and talents and are willing to share them with others
• We are willing to develop areas where we need to grow.
• We seek to find the correlation between or lessons and theory with the real world.
• We understand our passions, and the unique role we play as Ignatian Educators in a Jesuit school.
• We encourage students to know who they are and to develop academic and personal standards appropriate to them.

Ignatian Educators hope to empower others.

• We journey with our students to appreciate cultures other than our own.
• We strive to grow in our understanding of the human condition so that we can better interact with humanity.
• We encourage independence in our students to find their own voice, their inner freedom, and passion according to God’s will.
• We strive to validate our students by being inspired by them.
• We encourage students to develop their own academic and personal standards appropriate to who they are.
• We form students to be on the frontiers with Christ, in The Church, for The World.
• We build community by building relationships.
• We learn from each other.

Ignatian Educators are creative and created.

• We inspire students to find their own voice.
• We desire to be inquisitive thinkers.
• We assimilate a cross-curricular understanding for our students.
• We are called to understand a student’s context, to relate what we learn to how we live.
• We plant seeds that we know become trees, the fruit of which we may never see.

Ignatian Educators at Saint Peter’s Prep model…

• Respect from others who are different from us or hold different viewpoints.
• Support of others in a loving and affirming way.
• Good work habits and self-discipline.
• Sensitivity to individual needs.
• Selflessness.
• Being agents of change.
• Gratitude for our many blessings.
• Justice for the poor and marginalized.
• Cura Personalis, care for the individual.
• Service to others.

 The JSEA  'Profile of an Ignatian Educator ' can be found here:

http://www.jsea.org/sites/default/files/pages/Profile%20of%20an%20Ignatian%20Educator.pdf