Global Awareness Program
Through the Global Awareness Program, BSHS cultivates global citizens who possess fluency in technology, linguistics, cultural understanding, and charity. Well-developed curriculum, annual themes, faculty development, and student presentations punctuate the school year. Global awareness studies are cross-calendar, cross-curricular and allow all students to study and learn from a different culture, and also to respond to the needs and problems around the world.
Shanahan’s commitment to global awareness has resulted in an increased ability among students to think critically about complex local and global issues. It also has cultivated empathy and an ethical mindset among students and faculty alike. Furthermore, an embedded culture of global awareness has allowed students to learn how to exercise their own rights while honoring their responsibilities to others.
Shanahan’s commitment to global awareness has resulted in an increased ability among students to think critically about complex local and global issues. It also has cultivated empathy and an ethical mindset among students and faculty alike. Furthermore, an embedded culture of global awareness has allowed students to learn how to exercise their own rights while honoring their responsibilities to others.
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One Book, One School 2022 - The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years on Death Row at Holman State Prison in agonizing silence―full of despair and anger toward all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. But as Hinton realized and accepted his fate, he resolved not only to survive, but find a way to live on Death Row. For the next twenty-seven years he was a beacon―transforming not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, fifty-four of whom were executed mere feet from his cell. With the help of civil rights attorney and bestselling author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015. |
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Global Awareness Month
Each February, BSHS participates in the international Global Awareness Month. This month provides opportunities for students to delve deeply into a country they may only know the name of, or a problem they may only have heard about. They are able to study, learn and create a response, offering ways that they can also help the people in need around the globe.
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Partnership with Catholic Relief Services
Bishop Shanahan High School is a proud Platinum Level, Global High School who partners with Catholic Relief Services each year. As such, BSHS participates in the CRS Rice Bowl, holds two school-wide events with CRS, and serves as a model and resource for other Catholic schools in our region. Through this partnership, we seek to foster the holistic formation of young men and women based on the values of the Gospel. We also seek to create global citizens who imitate the love and compassion of Christ in all of their actions.
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