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Mr. Tom Beard
Room 373
thomas.beard@ocps.net
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Office Hours by Appointment
Tues. & Thurs. During Lunch
Mon. After School

Tom Beard is in his eighteenth year in education with Orange County Public Schools. During these years Tom has taught a variety of social science classes from World and American History to Advanced Placement Comparative and American politics and government. Tom has also coached boys’ basketball for fourteen of those years, serving as head coach for four as well as serving as an assistant coach on the 2010 & 2011 State Championship teams here at WP. Outside of the classroom, Tom co-created the Law & Order Academy, the Student Court and Global Civis. Tom has a Bachelors of Arts in International Affairs from the Florida State University and a Masters of Social Science Education from the University of Central Florida. Tom’s professional development includes being an AP Reader, a House of Representatives Fellow, UCF Civic Education Conference participant, Justice Teaching Institute participant, U.S. Supreme Court Institute Fellow, We the People Institute participant, DBQ training conference and political science curriculum development for the Lou Frey Institute at the University of Central Florida and studies at the University of Oxford in 2011.
Currently Tom is a teacher here at WPHS and serves as a volunteer for Latino Leadership. Tom is married and the father of a beautiful four year old daughter.