✝️ Our Catholic Faith: Forming Hearts and Minds
St. Louis of France STEM Academy, our faith is the foundation of everything we do. We believe that education should be a transformative experience—one that nurtures the soul as much as it develops the mind.
We:
- Value collaboration as an essential skill to answer God’s call to lead and serve others with compassion, justice, and purpose, guided by Catholic Social Teaching.
- Embrace the harmony between faith and reason, recognizing the richness of Catholic theology alongside the complexity of modern science.
- Inspire our students to pursue truth, freedom, and responsibility, enabling them to encounter God and others through service, learning, and discovery.
“Charity and service must accompany scientific and human progress.”
(Science and the Future of Mankind, 2000)
🧠 Our Learning Methods: Innovation Rooted in Purpose
STEM at SLF is more than a curriculum — it’s a way of thinking, exploring, and growing. Our transformation is schoolwide and holistic, fostering a culture of interdisciplinary collaboration and real-world application.
Our students engage in:
- Design thinking and deep learning
- Project-based and inquiry-driven instruction
- Hands-on exploration within real-life contexts
- Embracing mistakes and challenges as tools for growth
Teachers collaborate across subjects to build connections that encourage students to become resilient, adaptable, and intrinsically motivated learners.
Our Curriculum: Aligned, Adaptive, and Impactful
Our school proudly implements high-quality, standards-based curriculum resources designed to support both student engagement and academic achievement:
- Ready Math – Aligned to the Common Core, this program includes i-Ready, a digital platform that provides personalized learning paths and actionable data for teachers.
- STEMscopes – A Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)-aligned platform that promotes exploratory, hands-on learning in science and engineering through interactive lessons and real-world inquiry.
Additionally, teachers receive ongoing professional development focused on STEM strategies and curriculum implementation, ensuring dynamic, relevant, and mission-driven instruction.
🎯 Program Goals: Preparing Leaders for an Unwritten Future
Our goal is to equip and empower students who will:
- Tackle complex questions, global issues, and real-world problems with skill, creativity, and faith.
- Become STEM-proficient learners—critical thinkers, effective communicators, and technologically literate individuals ready to excel in careers that don’t yet exist.
- Lead with innovation, responsibility, and moral conviction in a fast-evolving world.
At SLF STEM Academy, students are not only prepared to succeed academically—they are inspired to become thoughtful, faithful, and innovative contributors to society.