The Arts

Standard 1: Creating, performing and participating in the arts
Students will actively engage in the processes that constitute creation and performance in the arts (dance, music, theater, and visual arts) and participate in various roles in the arts.

Standard 2: Knowing and using arts materials and resources
Students will be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and resources available for participation in the arts in various roles.

Standard 3: Responding to and analyzing works of art
Students will respond critically to a variety of woks in the arts, connecting the individual work to other works and to other areas of human endeavor and thought.

Standard 4: Understanding the cultural dimension and contributions of the arts
Students will develop an understanding of the personal and cultural forces that shape artistic communication and how the arts in turn shape the diverse cultures of past and present society.

Career Development
and Occupational Studies

Unlike the content-oriented standards, the Career Standard outlines a strategy for learning rather than specific knowledge and skills. Self and career exploration become a major vehicle for addressing and integrating the areas of study in grades K-12.

Standard 1: Career Development: Students will develop an awareness of the world of work, explore career options, and relate personal skills, aptitudes and abilities to future career decisions.

Standard 2: Integrated Learning: Students will understand and demonstrate how academic content is applied in real-world and workplace settings

Standard 3a: Foundation Skills: Students will demonstrate mastery of the foundation skills and competencies essential for success in the workplace.

Standard 3b: Career majors: Students who choose a career major will acquire the career specific technical knowledge/skills necessary to progress toward gainful employment, career advancement and success in post secondary programs.

English Language Arts

Standard 1:
Students will read, write, listen and speak for information and understanding

Standard 2:
Students will read, write, listen and speak for literary response and expression

Standard 3:
Students will read write, listen and speak for critical analysis and evaluation

Standard 4:
Students will read, write, listen and speak for social interaction

Health, Physical Education
and Home Economics

Standard 1: Personal Health and Fitness
Students will have the necessary knowledge and skills to establish and maintain physical fitness, participate in physical activity and maintain personal health.

Standard 2: A Safe and Healthy Environment
Students will acquire the knowledge and ability necessary to create and maintain a safe and healthy environment

Standard 3: Resource Management
Students will understand and be able to manage their personal and community resources.

Languages Other than English

Standard 1:
Students will be able to use a language other than English for communication.

Standard 2:
Students will develop cross-cultural skills and understandings.

Mathematics, Science and Technology

Standard 1:
Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers and develop solutions.

Standard 2:
Students will access, generate, process and transfer information using appropriate technologies.

Standard 3:
Students will understand mathematics and become mathematically confident by communicating and reasoning mathematically, by applying mathematics in real-world settings, and by solving problems through the integrated study of number of systems, geometry, algebra, data analysis, probability and trigonometry.

Standard 4:
Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.

Standard 5:
Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Standard 6:
Students will understand the relationships and common themes that connect mathematics, science and technology and apply the themes to these and other areas of learning.

Standard 7:
Students will apply the knowledge and thinking skills of mathematics, science and technology to address real-life problems and make informed decisions.

Social Studies

Standard 1:
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments and turning points in the history of the unites States and New York.

Standard 2:
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.

Standard 3:
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent worlds in which we live - local, national and global - including the spatial distribution of people, places and environments over the Earth's surface.

Standard 4:
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the united States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the US and other national economics, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and non-market mechanisms.

Standard 5:
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments, the United States Constitution, the American governmental system, the governmental systems of other nations and international politics past and present.

Standard 6:
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; the roles, rights and responsibilities of citizenship; and the avenues of participation in American civic life.