Welcome to Dr. Pace Seminars!
Offering Several Programs that Educate the Whole Student for Personal Best Performance on High-Stakes Tests.
Dr. Pace offers a wide variety of academic and spiritual seminars, workshops, and retreats. She applies her considerable teaching talents and fields of expertise to test-prep and is considered the foremost combined ‘Test-Prep Instructor/Retreat Director’ in the Philadelphia area. Explore the website and look at the totally unique, holistic approach to learning and test-taking offered by her various programs.Dr. Pace's unique programs promote:
- Academic Excellence
- Emotional Readiness - (See 'List of Emotions' Page)
- Physical Preparedness
- Spiritual Awareness of Personal Best
About Dr. Pace
Dr. Patricia Sisca Pace has been a teacher and youth mentor for over 30 years. She received a doctorate in psychology from the University of Southern California, and she has taught mathematics, English, psychology, religion, and test-prep at various parishes, high schools, and universities. Dr. Pace is also a retreat and spiritual director, certified at the Jesuit Center in Wernersville, PA.
Other Certifications
- 1989 Certification in Cross Culture Psychological Evaluations of Indo-Chinese Refugees, Lutheran Family Services
- 1973 Certificate of Achievement for 248 hours of training in Child Care, Los Angeles Unified School District
- 1974 Certificate of Completion in Recreation Education-Child Psychology Care, USC, Medical Center, 176 hours
Religious Affiliations
- 2001-Present Medical Mission Sisters Associate, Philadelphia, PA
- 1990-Present Benedictine Oblate, St. Anselm’s Abbey, Washington, D.C.
- 1989-Present - Spiritual and Retreat Director
- 1988-2003 - Religious Education Instructor and Projects Coordinator for KABSCCD Youth Group
Social justice projects including:- St. Francis Inn Soup Kitchen, with the Franciscans
- Catholic Worker Clinic
- Self-Help, Inc for recovering addicts
- Honduran Education Project, with the School Sisters of Notre Dame
- Red Cloud Indian School Education Project, with the Jesuits
- Environmental actions, with the Lenape and Sioux Nations
- Government Letters - national and international
- Published Newsletter - We Are C.H.U.R.C.H. The Light of the World
- 1988-2000 - Intervention Team Coordinator and Referral Services for families of addicts
- 1988 - Starting Point, Inc. series on addiction
- 1988 - Rolling Hills Hospital series on addiction
- 1988 - LKEC Philadelphia Addiction Services, Bridge Street - Adolescent Diagnostic and Education Program Intake, Evaluation and Counseling
- 1976 - Resthaven Community Mental Health Center, CA., group facilitator and private counselor
Presentations and Events
National publishing company links Dr. Pace's SAT Retreat to website: http://www.osv.com/ParishNav/FaithFusion/Resources/forCatechists- Saint Cecilia Home and School - Wednesday May 5, 7 p.m. Dr. Pace describes the goals and benefits of her new spiritual-academic Learning Skills Program
- Saint Basil Academy Parents Club - Tuesday May 11, 7:30 p.m. Dr. Pace describes the goals and effects of her Combined SAT Academic and SAT Retreat
- Presented on the SAT Retreat to the Saint Joseph's Prep Mothers Club on February 10, 2010.
- Presented on the SAT Retreat, November 17, 2009: Philadelphia
Archdiocesan Secondary School Principals Meeting. - Presented on the SAT Retreat, November 6, 2009: Region 3 NCEA Regional Meeting for Catholic High School Principals in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
- Dr. Pace’s programs and products were presented at the Philadelphia Archdiocesan Elementary School Book Fair on October 12, 13, 15.
- Dr. Pace presented her successful programs at the NCEA Convention in Anaheim, CA on April 15, 2009.
Articles about Dr. Pace's Programs
- "Tests Measure Many Things and Prepping Can Help"
Dr. Pace's Published Response in the Wall Street Journal (6/3/09) - Putting God To the Test: God
and the SAT
As published in the September/October 2007 issue of Momentum Magazine - the journal of the National Catholic Educational Association.
- God
and the SAT: Spiritual/Academic Retreat at TMLA
As published in the August 23, 2008 edition of The Tablet - the weekly newspaper of the Diocese of Brooklyn.