New courses offered for 2023-2024 school year

AP Precalculus, taught by Elizabeth Dore, will be offered starting in the 2023-2024 school year. Please describe the new course you will be teaching, including main objectives, projects or focuses.  “The College Board is introducing AP Precalculus for the first time next year, the 2023-2024 school year, and [Algonquin is] planning to offer it. They have four main objectives for the course, ...

Baking and Pastry, taught by Susan Muise, will be offered at the CP level starting in the 2023-2024 school year. Please describe the new course you will be teaching, including main objectives, projects or focuses.  “The Baking and Pastry class is going to build on skills that students have learned in their nutrition and culinary class. We are going to focus on the history of baking and bre...

Global Cuisine, taught by Zbysia Giegucz, will be offered at the Honors and CP level starting in the 2023-2024 school year. Please describe the new course you will be teaching, including main objectives, projects or focuses.  “First, we are going to be studying different cultures and cuisines in the U.S., because there are a lot of different cultures here. The United States has different ...

Behavioral Economics, taught by Nicole Ruffo and Christina Smith, will be offered at the Honors level for the 2023-2024 school year.  Please describe the new course you will be teaching, including main objectives, projects or focuses.  “Behavioral Economics is the name of the course and it is a combination of psychology and economics. We will use principles of psychology to understand ou...

Unified Art Exploration, taught by Danielle DeCiero, will be offered at the Honors and CP level starting in the 2023-2024 school year. Please note: this interview was conducted via email. Please describe the new course you will be teaching, including main objectives, projects or focuses.  "Unified Art Explorations is a new inclusionary visual arts course designed to create a cooperative stud...

Spanish for Heritage Speakers taught by Agustina Harmon will be offered at the CP and Honors levels for heritage speakers the 2023-2024 school year.  World Language Department Head Emily Squires sat down with the Harbinger to answer questions about the class.  Please note: This interview was conducted via email. Please describe the new course you will be teaching, including main objectives, projects or focuses....

Portuguese for Heritage Speakers taught by Jennifer Sousa will be offered at the CP and Honors levels for heritage speakers the 2023-2024 school year.  World Language Department Head Emily Squires sat down with the Harbinger to answer questions about the class.  Please note: This interview was conducted via email. Please describe the new course you will be teaching, including main objectives, projects or focuses....