Bruce Street School offers a traditional academic curriculum with an emphasis on meeting the special needs of the deaf child. The 2004-05 academic year marked the beginning of a new adventure in literacy for our hearing impaired students as they began the Harcourt Trophies literacy series for Kindergarten through fifth grades. The new Harcourt series will improve literacy and leave no child behind. The series includes reading, vocabulary, language, and writing. Each child will have intensive work in literacy five days a week for 100 minutes each day.

Harcourt Trophies uses universal themes which help students realize that they are part of a large independent world and help students develop a sense of responsibility. These themes include self-discovery (individual), working together (social) growth and change (global/intellectual), creativity (individual), communities (social), and explorations (global/intellectual). Trophies develops student proficiency in all aspects of reading and language arts, including the key areas of phonemic awareness (where applicable), phonics (where applicable), vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension, as well as writing, spelling, grammar, listening, and speaking through Total Communication.

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 was signed into law by President G.W. Bush on January 8, 2002. It mandates (among other things) that virtually all special education students take their State's standards-based assessments. In order to succeed on these assessments our hearing-impaired students follow the Newark Public Schools curriculum which is aligned with the Core Curriculum Content Standards (CCCS). Bruce Street School also offers a special area of study for students in the area of communication and deaf awareness. All curriculum objectives are aligned with the New Jersey Department of Education New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards.

All students receive individual and group speech therapy as mandated by their I.E.P.* In addition, Bruce Street students are serviced by a full-time adaptive physical education teacher who also teaches a complete health curriculum. As needed, students receive a full range of physcial and occupational therapy. Students also receive art classes and elective music classes.