This integrated approach has multiple, converging aims. Educationally, it strives to foster a reverence for learning and to equip students with the professional and technical competencies to function in a modern society. Psychologically, the program hopes to guide students to an understanding of self and others and to a facility in the means of human communication.

Spiritually, St. Teresa seeks to lead students, through prayer and instruction, to a deeper and more faith-filled sense of their own worth as gifted, though flawed, individuals and to a personal experience with God.