SophieConnect delivers an academic experience that mirrors today’s world

Advanced Placement (AP) Comparative Government & Politics is a humanities class offered on SophieConnect.  The course introduces students to the variety of political structures of countries around the world.  Over the course of the year, students discuss the policies and challenges of the United Kingdom, Mexico, Russia, Iran, China, and Nigeria. Seniors Ceci Duncan and Karina Adams are stu...

The SophieConnect platform offers Advanced Placement (AP) Environmental Science, a unique science course, to students from the network of Sacred Heart schools.  The course allows students to learn biology, chemistry, environmental science, geography, and geology. In choosing to take this course, Sacred Heart Greenwich students gain experience in the environmental sciences and grow as independent...

Advanced Placement (AP) Human Geography is a full-year humanities course offered on SophieConnect.  Through the class, students explore human use of the earth and the earth's reaction to human choices.   Mr. Joseph Valentine, Upper School History Teacher, teaches the course.  Mr. Valentine chose to teach the online class because it gave him the opportunity to teach students from other network...

Advanced Placement (AP) Macroeconomics is a year-long SophieConnect course that prepares students to take the College Board's AP Macroeconomics exam.  The course gives Sacred Heart Greenwich students the opportunity to expand their knowledge of the principles of economics.  Over the course of the year, students learn about basic economic concepts, economic performance, national income, price determination...

Senior Elizabeth Murray is one of the three Sacred Heart Greenwich students who take Advanced Placement (AP) Music Theory.  SophieConnect allows students to continue taking courses that are less in demand.   Mr. Karl Haeseler is the Upper School Computer Science Teacher and SophieConnect Co-Founder.  Along with the other SophieConnect coordinators, Mr. Haeseler chose to offer AP Music Theory o...

While Sacred Heart Greenwich offers in-person Arabic, French, Mandarin, and Spanish classes, students who choose to take Latin enroll in the online course through SophieConnect.  Mr. John Martone, Upper School Theology Teacher, teaches the Latin I/II and Latin III/IV students grammar and syntax, as well as the culture and history of the Romans. "What appeals to me most about teaching asynchronously...

SophieConnect began offering Nutrition & Wellness as a fall semester course in 2019.  This year, three Sacred Heart Greenwich students are taking the course.  Nutrition students discuss nutritional trends, current food guides, food labels, and the many steps required to get food from the farm to the table.  They also learn about digestion and nutrients, according to sophieconnect.org.  Se...