Hello and welcome to Everman Joe C. Bean High School Social Studies Department academic page.  In order to graduate literate, aware and concerned citizens, the Everman Joe C. Bean Social Studies Department is committed to providing a learning environment in which students will:

• learn the skills necessary for personal success in a rapidly changing society – questioning, writing, reading, listening, speaking, discussing, researching – and those leading to computer literacy

• develop analytical strategies that promote fair-minded and logical points of view

• derive historical significance from events through understanding the impact of the past on the present and future

• respect a citizen’s rights and responsibilities and the methods by which our government functions

• develop a sense of their unique cultural identities along with an appreciation of the diversity of humankind

• learn how to function as positive, contributing members of society