Denver Catholic Schools have had an exciting year! For many years, the Office of Catholic Schools hoped and prayed for a way to offer more inclusion in Catholic schools to children with special needs, and the Lord is answering those prayers in a big way! In just the second year of providing support services and special education training to schools, the program has grown faster than imagined. For this coming school year, 21 of 32 elementary schools have requested funding through the FIRE Foundation to support various programs/students within their schools. This expansion has allowed schools to offer an inclusive Catholic education to an increasing number of children with varying disabilities. They have increased from one school to 11 schools serving students with profound needs from 2021-2024. This is a true mission win!
Additionally, Denver Catholic Schools is excited about the expansion of their academic renewal work with the unveiling of new art, music and physical education curriculums. The art and music curriculum give formation on beauty itself, guidance on beauty in the Catholic school environment, and include a list of art and music to be memorized by students. The list of art and music comes from Catholic culture, and through the teaching of this, students will receive the Church’s heritage by which the Church enculturates a new generation into herself through this curriculum. The Office of Catholic Schools also recently held formation days to deepen the teachers’ understanding of these disciplines from the Catholic intellectual tradition.
