Curriculum draft

The Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City seek to offer excellent academic and co-curricular programs that are infused with religious truth and values reflecting Christ’s Gospel call to love one another. We are committed to preparing students for life in today’s Church and society. Therefore, our focus is grounded upon the development of the whole person of the student spiritually, intellectually, socially, and physically.

The curriculum of the Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City is rooted in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and responds to His call to make disciples of all peoples. The Catholic Church – and particularly the Church in the United States – has long prioritized Catholic Schools as essential means for the formation of the whole person in the image and likeness of God, in the full freedom and dignity of His creation. The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City carries out this calling and essential function by supporting the Catholic identity of schools, through which the Christian development of each student is nurtured, and by providing guidelines for academic excellence in the context of our Catholic faith.

Now more than ever, these two aspects of Catholic schools go hand in hand. “Young people of the third millennium must be a source of energy and leadership in our Church and our nation. And therefore, we must provide young people with an academically rigorous and doctrinally sound program of education” (USCCB, 2005). The essential elements of the academically rigorous and doctrinally sound program described by the USCCB require a curriculum that is rigorous, relevant, research-based, and infused with Catholic faith and traditions. (National Standards and Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools, 2012). The Curriculum is developed and reviewed on a cyclical schedule by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Department of Catholic Education in collaboration with principals, teachers, consultants and other Catholic educators across the country.