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Approach to Curriculum

Our Beliefs

We believe that all students need to be challenged by a complex and rigorous curriculum. Our vision is that we will prepare students for the future by exposing them to both the challenges and victories of our past. Our mission is that we will help to mold students that can both think and question while contemplating the most important issues of our time. We strive to encourage independent thinking, the ability to construct an argument while utilizing evidence and the ability to discuss both historical and current topics with knowledge and expertise.

Our Approach to Curriculum

Through a developmentally appropriate approach, our elementary students in Bedford are introduced to important social studies concepts beginning with self, family, community, and the larger world with a goal of a deeper understanding of how people are interrelated within their environment. Students explore the impact decisions can have over time as they have shaped our history. As students progress through the grades, teachers build on previous concepts and stress the connections within the New York Social Studies Framework. This foundation lays the groundwork for students to see the world beyond themselves.

Our middle school and high school ​Social Studies program uses a constructivist approach in which students develop their own understanding as they explore essential questions while applying historical evidence. Through the study of history, economics, and social science, we aim to create critical thinkers, life­long learners, and active and responsible citizens. Targeted student skills include: critical reading, essay writing, logical development of an argument using appropriate evidence, collaboration, oral communication and presentation. 

Social Studies Curriculum Sequence

  • Grade 6 World History

  • Grade 7 United States History to Reconstruction

  • Grade 8 United States History post-Reconstruction

  • Grade 9 World History to 1750

  • Grade 10 World History post 1750-Advanced Placement option

  • Grade 11 United States History-Advanced Placement option

  • Grade 12 Economics and Government

Business Education Approach and Curriculum Sequence

Business uses an authentic learning approach to instruction where course offerings prepare students with real-world 21st-century skills. From entry level to advanced courses, students hone abilities they will need for a lifetime including financial literacy, professional responsibility, computer literacy, and soft skills. The courses provide real life experience through business creation, marketing plans, resume creation, internships and more. The high school business curriculum is based on state standards.

Courses Include:

  • Introduction to Business
  • Business Communication
  • Accounting
  • Marketing
  • Business law
  • Personal Finance
  • ASPIRE internship program — ALL seniors eligible