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Glen Ridge board agrees on district goals for 2025–26 and outlines superintendent search timeline
Summary
Board members reached consensus on district goals in teaching, wellness and curricular expansion and directed committees to develop board goals; the personnel committee announced an internally driven superintendent search with an expected completion in June–July 2026.
The Glen Ridge Board of Education reviewed and reached consensus on draft district goals for 2025–26 and directed standing committees to develop board-level goals.
Board members reviewed three draft district goals presented by the acting superintendent: strengthen teaching and learning with an emphasis on implementation of a new K–5 English language arts curriculum and teacher training, continue phonics-first instruction and adopt the LinkIt data system to support instruction; promote wellness programs including “Capturing Kids' Hearts” and a new in-house wellness program at the high school; and expand curricular choices at Glen Ridge High School with more dual-credit courses and business offerings such as accounting.
The board agreed that standing committees should meet and propose potential board goals. Committee chairs were asked to schedule meetings with district staff and circulate proposed goals for collation. The personnel committee reported that, after reviewing two vendor options for an external search, the board will pursue an internally driven superintendent search, following the district’s recent experience conducting a similar search. The committee will draft a timeline with the aim of concluding work in June–July 2026; staff will align the search schedule with the school calendar.
The board president emphasized that board goals should be “large and overarching” rather than prescriptive; smaller items could be handled by committee as tasks or initiatives rather than formal board goals.
Ending: Committee chairs were asked to email the administrative team to schedule meetings so that proposed board goals can be collated and distributed before the October meeting.
