Overview 

The Humanities team is part of the Department of Teaching & Learning within the Academics Division. The team supports the development and implementation of curriculum and instruction for literacy and social studies in Denver Public Schools.

Mission 

In service of the Humanities instructional vision, the DPS Humanities Team is committed to supporting the implementation of high quality instructional materials and effective instruction across Language Arts and Social Studies classrooms. Universal support available across DPS include:

• Professional Learning:
• Sessions designed to support the implementation of effective instruction with a particular focus on new curricular resources
• Professional learning communities, including Content Lead sessions and STL cohorts
• Leader development 
• Curriculum Resources and Guidance
• Scope and sequence guidance, curriculum overviews, DDI supports, assessment guidance, internalization and planning supports.

Driving Principles 

Humanities support is grounded in principles established in the High Quality Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool. 

All Humanities resources are designed and updated to align to current evidence based practices; please refer to content specific pages for additional information.