Maybe Elise Heil, the principal of Sacred Heart School in Washington, D.C., always was destined to be an educator. Her mom, Donna Heil, noted, “As a child, she’d line up her stuffed animals in the hallway and teach them. She was always going to be a teacher.”
The Consortium of Catholic Academies – a coalition of four center-city Catholic elementary schools in the District of Columbia – has done “an incredible job” of continuing to educate students despite the hardships brought on by pandemic and quarantine, according to the president of the consortium.
In a time-honored tradition, the 22 second graders in Raquel Fuentes’ class at Sacred Heart School in Washington prepared for their upcoming First Holy Communion, but with a special guest on Jan. 19, when they were joined by Cardinal Wilton Gregory in a Zoom meeting.