St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School is an newly approved virtual charter school in the state of Oklahoma. The school is a collaborative effort between the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa to serve students in Oklahoma.
The Catholic Church in Oklahoma believes that parents are the primary educators of their children. The primary goal of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School is to assist parents in the important responsibility of developing the heart, mind, and soul of their child. The St. Isidore Catholic Virtual School envisions a learning opportunity for all students whose parents desire a quality Catholic education for their child regardless of where they live in Oklahoma. Our statewide virtual charter school will enable students to be immersed in a robust liberal arts program that opens the student to the best of the Catholic intellectual tradition.
Students across the state with limited access to a Catholic school can now enroll in a rigorous virtual program scaled for student success with quality curriculum materials. Our virtue-based program will help each student realize their individual gifts and talents while developing strong moral character and integrity. The school recognizes their role in conjunction with the recommendations of the Congregation for Catholic Education, The Catholic School on the Threshold of the Third Millennium ¶16 (1997).
1) Putting the Church at the service of the community in the realm of education,
2) Providing an example of an education directed toward the whole person – body, mind, soul and spirit -while rejecting the idea of a partial education directed solely toward mind and body;
3) Sharing with parents, the state, and other educational institutions the universally recognized obligation to educate the young;
4) Its openness to accept students of all faiths or no faith who appreciate and desire a robust Catholic education; and
5) Guaranteeing cultural and educational pluralism, providing families to educate their children according to the dictates of their consciences.