A Scarsdale Education for the Future
Background
The 21st Century presents new economic, environmental, political, and social challenges. Our work is to empower Scarsdale graduates to engage successfully with these emerging forces, not to be controlled by them. This work is consistent with our Mission.
The Mission is to "enable our youth to be effective and independent contributors in a democratic society and an interdependent world." We are doing this by pursuing three inter-related goals:
- To prepare our students for effective participation in an interdependent world
- To develop minds and spirits to inspire a love of learning
- To foster decent, responsible, contributing citizens (non sibi)
At the strategic planning session of May, 2008, professional staff reached informal consensus on the following core curriculum for the future, comprising subject content, higher order thinking; technological knowledge; certain behaviors, dispositions and capacities. We will revise and improve this curriculum as our understanding grows.
