Our Beliefs

• Engaging in Social Studies coursework nurtures growth in both personal and social skills.
• Social Studies enhances students’ global awareness.
• Social Studies promotes active participation in our political and economic systems.
• Social Studies equips students with skills and knowledge to be successful in their community and world.
• Social Studies empowers students to be problem-solvers and critical thinkers.
• Social Studies fosters good citizenship.
• Social Studies encourages an understanding of the past, how it applies to the present, and of how it impacts the future.
• Social Studies promotes respect for diversity.
• Social Studies teachers engage all students by using purposeful, meaningful, and research-based instructional strategies.
• Cross-curricular instruction supports excellence for all children.
• Collaboration and data-driven instruction supports excellence for every child.

Our Goals

• Students will develop a respect for their rights and the rights of others.
• Students will develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will foster responsible, global citizenship.
• Students will develop the skills necessary to adapt to an ever-changing society.
• Students will understand how society establishes governing institutions and distributes power and authority.
• Students will study, analyze, and interpret data in order to develop a historical perspective to assist in making informed choices and decisions for the present.
• Students will develop global and multicultural perspectives.

The Social Studies standards-based curriculum/content provides critical support for KCS, including the School Board's and each school's Mission, and the Superintendent’s Strategic Plan by:

• Supporting the common good.
• Adopting common and multiple perspectives.
• Applying knowledge, skills, and values to civic action.
• Acquiring information and manipulating data.
• Developing and presenting policies, arguments, and stories.
• Constructing new knowledge.
• Implementing a collaborative, teacher-developed standards-based curriculum.
• Using data to improve instruction.
• Addressing Career, College, and ACT Readiness Standards for Reading & Writing throughout the K-12 Curriculum.
• Encouraging cross-curricular instruction to support high-stakes areas such as Math and Reading.
• Supporting the building of literacy in Social Studies/History.
• Differentiating instruction to support the needs of every child.