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Berkeley Heights administrators report progress on district goals, spotlight DEI, sustainability and targeted student supports
Summary
Acting superintendent and administrative team presented updates on five district goals, including a communications overhaul, a districtwide green initiative, DEI metrics and new targeted supports that reached 159 high-school students; administrators said early elementary phonics and math benchmarks are exceeding targets.
Acting Superintendent Mr Nixon and the district administrative team presented a multi-part update on the Berkeley Heights School District's five strategic goals, telling the board at its public meeting that several action items are complete while others remain in progress.
Administrators said the district has moved to a new website platform, described as Thrillshare, and plans to replace SchoolMessenger with a district app to improve mass communications and increase transparency. “We’ll be able to push out notifications like you might get an app notification on your smartphone,” the administration said during the presentation.
On sustainability, Mr Dennis Dunes outlined plans to establish school-based green teams, adopt New Jersey climate-change standards in classrooms, audit…
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