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Social Studies and World Languages

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Victoria Buonpane

Coordinator of Social Studies and World Languages

(516) 478-2057

buonpanev@gcufsd.net

 


Social Studies Department's Core Beliefs

We believe social studies education should empower students to be civic-minded, informed, engaged, and active citizens in our democracy.

We believe students should be exposed to various perspectives and develop historical thinking skills to have a robust understanding of the past and how it can inform the future.

We believe that studying history helps students be open-minded, curious, resilient, optimistic, accepting, and empathetic.

We believe that students should be able to read, annotate, analyze documents, think critically, ask questions, construct evidence-based claims (both written and spoken), and develop news/media Literacy skills.