head of school message
Welcome to Cap Cana Heritage School.
CCHS has been part of my life for many years, and in many ways, I have grown alongside it. From its earliest days, I have had the privilege of watching this school become a true learning community, a place shaped by relationships, shared experiences, challenges, celebrations, and, most importantly, people.
As Head of School, I believe deeply that education is ultimately about human development. Academic excellence matters enormously, but our responsibility goes far beyond what students know. We are helping young people discover who they are, understand how they relate to others, develop the confidence to think for themselves, and recognize that they have something meaningful to contribute to the world.
I want CCHS to be a school where children are known.
Known by their teachers. Known for their strengths and their challenges. Given space to ask questions, make mistakes, take intellectual risks, develop their own voices, and discover what genuinely excites them.
Our classrooms should be places of curiosity and meaningful learning, but some of the most important lessons will also happen outside them as they develop friendships, engage in deep conversations, participate in performances, competitions, service, and leadership opportunities, experience moments of failure they can grow from, and allow the school to be an extension of the community around us.
I also believe that a great school should never consider itself finished. Education is changing, our children are changing, and the world they are preparing to enter is changing extraordinarily quickly. Our responsibility is not simply to respond to that change, but to be thoughtful about it: to preserve what is deeply human and valuable in education while having the courage to question, innovate, and transform what no longer serves our students.
That is the work we are committed to at CCHS.
We certainly want our students to leave us academically prepared, but also curious, compassionate, resilient, creative, self-aware, and willing to contribute. We want them to know that achievement matters, but character matters too. That their voice has value. That belonging comes with responsibility. And that education is not simply preparation for a future life; it is part of learning how to live a meaningful one.
None of this can happen through a school alone. It requires a true partnership among students, educators, families, and the wider community. One of the things I value most about CCHS is precisely that sense of community and the opportunity we have to build something meaningful together.
Whether you are already part of our CCHS family or are discovering our school for the first time, I invite you to learn more about who we are through our people, our classrooms, and the experiences of our students.
As we look ahead, I am excited to continue building a school where learning is meaningful, relationships matter, and every child has the opportunity to become fully themselves.
María Alejandra Fondeur
Head of School
Cap Cana Heritage School
Head of Scool
m.fondeur@cchs.edu.do