Catholic School Playbook Nicholas and Maruska Healy have a child at St. Jerome Institute in Washington, DC “Saint Jerome Institute is deeply Catholic, rooted in the traditions of the Church. Each day begins with the Liturgy of the Hours. The entire school attends Holy Mass once a week together. The school celebrates major feast days...Read More
Catholic School Playbook – August 15 How Two Headmasters are Cultivating a Culture of Virtue in Their School Communities—and Avoiding a Common Problem “The true, the good, and the beautiful” is a phrase that is increasingly familiar to families seeking an alternative to progressive education. While it is used by some secular schools, it takes...Read More
Catholic School Playbook – Apr 4 How Peter Crawford, Founding Headmaster of St. Jerome Institute, Created a School for Teachers who Love to Teach As headmaster, Crawford considers himself to be a teacher of teachers. It’s a role he takes seriously. He believes that his greatest value to the school is his hiring and training...Read More
Dear students, Congratulations on a wonderful performance! You did an amazing job and it was a joy to watch the play unfold on the stage! The audience was deeply moved by your performance, and so was I!In one of his writings, John Paul II says: “Through his artistic creativity man appears more than ever in...Read More
At SJI, one of our chief ambitions is to be a Catholic school. That may sound like a banal ambition. There are, after all, any number of Catholic high schools right here in the region. Yet SJI was founded on the claim that being a “Catholic” school means more than having theology class and occasional...Read More
SJI’s Inaugural Week of Giving commenced with a challenge from our corresponding member of the board, Dr. Maria Marta Ferreyra, and her husband Mr. Jeffrey Reminga, to match their gift of $10,000. They gave the following message: “We are so pleased – the school is beautifully crafted. SJI meets students at an age when much of...Read More
Even though classes were held remotely during the 4th Quarter, SJI students continued their Practicum studies by undertaking and completing a Remote Practicum Project challenge! Students were given approximately three weeks to conduct research, propose a project for approval to their faculty mentor, and organize and document their undertaking. Student entries in this project demonstrated...Read More
As we near the end of another Mathematics Unit, students will be diving back into our exploration of Euclid’s Elements. While searching for the best angle at which to enter into this difficult but important text (see video for more on that), we’ve recently adopted an unexpected role in our approach: skeptics. https://stjeromeinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/euclidean-mimi-video.mp4?_=1 Let’s face it; no...Read More
Headmaster Crawford recently had his article “Education Right Side Up” published at Humanum, the review of the John Paul II’s institute on cultural and pastoral formation. You can read it here or at the Humanum Review website. The contemporary discourse on education is dominated by thoughtlessness. As we argue and debate educational issues on radio, television, internet,...Read More
Orion, with its characteristic belt and skewed hourglass shape, is one of the most recognizable winter constellations for those of us in the northern hemisphere. Orion rises and sets later and later each night, until eventually we can no longer see it and we know that spring has arrived. You probably know that Orion’s position...Read More
St. Jerome Institute (SJI) is a classical liberal arts high school that reinvented traditional education to meet the challenges of our time.
Our curriculum opens the most fundamental questions of the human heart at the very moment when young men and women are longing to understand themselves and their place in the world.
Shoulder to shoulder with great thinkers, writers, artists, and saints, and led by the light of the Catholic intellectual tradition, we embark on a grand journey of academic excellence and joyful self-discovery.
Monica Guza, Development Director
P.O. Box 291
Hyattsville, MD 20781
