Characteristics of Catholic Salesian Education

As educators in the Visitation tradition, our greatest challenge is to prepare our youth to navigate a morally complex society with hearts and minds formed by our Catholic faith and Salesian Spirituality. 

Academic programs in a Visitation school are designed to provide students with critical thinking skills to use when faced with the conflicting values that society often holds before them. In addition, the academic course of study offers a compassionate view of the world, underpinned by a Catholic, Salesian worldview, in order that our students will have the intellectual tools to argue for the common good. Our graduates can become agents of change to a world in need.

A Visitation education offers a climate where educators can be effective guides who set a positive example for our students. We can show them how it is possible to integrate a strong sense of spiritual values with a reflective, creative life of joyful optimism. We are also privileged to follow, with enthusiasm and conviction, those who have gone before us in the long histories of our schools, those whose fidelity has established the strong Salesian tradition that has enriched Visitation students for many generations.

Elements within Salesian Spirituality that lend themselves to counteracting pressures of life in the United States today might include the following: