Patricia Harty

Cohort 0: 2015-2016
Principal: St. Sebastian Dual Language Immersion, Los Angeles (2016-2019)

Mentor Principal from 2017-2018


Patricia Harty taught all grades K-5, as well as graduate level courses. She taught in Washington, DC, Texas, and Santiago, Chile. Her teaching experiences include work in public and Catholic schools, in settings like one and two-way dual language immersion and English as a foreign language programs.

She worked as the Principal of St. Sebastian School, the second dual language Catholic School in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Previously she worked as the Dual Language Implementation Specialist for the Archdiocese and prior to that she was a reading specialist in the Onward Readers program serving East Los Angeles Catholic schools. Throughout this time she taught graduate level courses at the University of Notre Dame, as well as undergraduate courses at Loyola Marymount University. She was appointed to a three-year term on the Advisory Board for the Alliance for Catholic Education at the University of Notre Dame. She also worked as a consultant for Notre Dame, where she taught online courses for the Universidad Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico for their bilingual certification program.