Denver DJ School for Schools
The music they love. The skills that count.
A turnkey, standards-aligned DJ elective for middle and high school, taught in Denver Public Schools and the DSST Cole Middle School after-school program.
Bring it to your school
See our students on the decks.
Real students, real classroom, every day at Lake Middle School.
What you get
Every lesson, ready to teach
Teacher one-sheet
Objective, timing, answer keys, misconceptions, discussion prompts, and exemplars, slide by slide.
Slide deck
Big, simple, step-by-step slides that match the one-sheet.
Student Do Now
A daily listening warm-up covering genre, tempo, the hook, and the history behind the track.
The music
A classroom-ready crate of songs for every genre week.
For districts
Why it works in your district
Career & Technical Ed
Built to CTE standards for Technical Skills and Communications.
Built for multilingual learners
Every lesson has a content and language objective, sentence stems, and DJ vocabulary.
Real math, real history
Students count bars, calculate tempo, and trace the roots of the music they love.
Hands on every day
One student, one DJ controller. Students set cue points, match tempos, and mix.
The semester
One semester. From Old School Hip Hop to EDM.
Each genre week builds the next DJ skill: tempo and BPM, counting bars, cue points, matching tempos, and the first transition.
About
Built in a real classroom
Denver DJ School was founded in 2018 by DJ Chonz. We are a Serato-certified DJ school, and our curriculum is built and taught in a real middle school classroom every day.
Get started
Bring Denver DJ School to your district
Now taking district partners for Spring 2027.
Or reach us directly at djchonz@denverdjschool.com or 720-615-0009.
Proprietary curriculum. Do not copy or use without written permission.