Curriculum on Laudato Si' For Secondary Education
The Curriculum on Laudato Si’ for Secondary Education, developed by the Carmelite NGO in 2016, is designed to help high school students around the world learn from Pope Francis’s environmental Encyclical Laudato Si’ On Care For Our Common Home.
The Carmelite NGO also has created a Laudato Si’ Study Guide for adults and college students. These Curricula are available to teachers, students, school administrators and everyone in hard copies or downloads in English and Spanish at laudato-si-for-all.com.
In 2016 the administration and faculty of Salpointe Catholic High School in Tucson, AZ were enlisted to help develop the Curriculum. The goal was educate more young people with lessons from the encyclical and integrate these lessons across the curriculum into all high school classes.
A year later the Laudato Si’ Curriculum was complete. A 252-page volume, it includes comprehensive, detailed lesson plans in Theology, Environmental Science, Social Studies and Humanities for grades nine through 12. Lessons are geared to grade level and educational standards.
The Curriculum was introduced in Rome on Nov. 4, 2017, when Carmelite representatives adopted it as a model for its schools around the world during the International Congress for Carmelite Secondary Schools. The Carmelite NGO also offers the Curriculum to non-Catholic and secular institutions everywhere.
The Curriculum has been approved by Archbishop Gregory Aymond of the Archdiocese of New Orleans and by Fr. Raul Maraví, O.Carm., General Councilor of the Carmelite Order representing the Americas and President of the International Commission of Carmelite Schools and Youth.
About the Carmelite NGO[edit]
Headquartered in New Orleans, the Carmelite NGO is affiliated with the United Nations. The Carmelite NGO promotes justice, peace and care for creation. The Carmelite NGO was created in 2001 as a non-governmental organization in Special Consultative Status with the Economic & Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations and affiliated with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the Department of Public Information (DPI) of the United Nations. The goal of the Carmelite NGO is to actively participate in creating a more peaceful, just and loving world by advocating and caring for the spiritual and human needs of the human family. To achieve its goal the Carmelite NGO actively works in the areas of: education, freedom of belief, human rights especially the right to food and the right to personal safety (anti-human trafficking), and sustainable development (climate change).
About Salpointe Catholic High School[edit]
Founded in 1950, Salpointe is a Carmelite college-preparatory high school enrolling 1,170 students and accredited by the Western Catholic Educational Association.
Sources[edit]
Article in Clarion Herald newspaper, Nov. 13, 2017. Carmelite NGO Creates Curriculum For Laudato Si'. https://clarionherald.org/2017/11/23/carmelite-ngo-creates-curriculum-for-laudato-si/
Article in National Catholic Reporter's Global Sisters Report, Dec. 27, 2017. Q & A with Sr. Jane Remson, teaching Laudato Si' to high school students.
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