The OPRA Custodian Position Isn’t Working Out
And That Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone Everyone familiar with OPRA thought naming Steve Hopkins as the new Records Custodian was a bad idea. Well, almost everyone. It was nothing about him personally; it was because of the lack of supporting reasoning behind the hire. And, for those paying close attention, Dr. Varley has made it abundantly clear that those in her...
BHCW 05/07/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to know about Berkeley Heights, NJ this week… Online Version of Newsletter PDF Version of Newsletter: There are three ways to get BHCW content delivered to your doorstep: (1) Sign-Up for our weekly/bi weekly newsletter. This is the most popular option so far. Subscribers will get email with articles published for the time period in between. (2) Subscribe to our...
Berkeley Heights Public School Rating & Ranking Drop- Closer Looks
It’s Not Just GL- The Youngest Learners in the Data Set Are Far Behind Surrounding Schools This week, the community member who has been looking through the rankings and ratings that we tied into the budget data took a closer look at ratings and rankings. We posted on one part of that analysis this week – demonstrating that Governor Livingston...
The Berkeley Height Public School Survey Problem
And what we can do to fix it. Surveys are an essential tool that systems can use to gather vital information to know more about the people they are serving to better meet needs and determine whether what they are doing now is effective. Asking for information about age, ethnicity, culture, sexuality, religion, religiosity, and habits are common practices and...
It’s Time For A Vote Of No Confidence
The Berkeley Heights School District Needs to make a Decision I’ve concluded that no answers are provided at Board meetings because no one knows the answers. I run my household, and I run it pretty damn well. I care about the people in my home, and I care deeply for the decisions I make and the effect they will have...
Help A Teacher Out
Please consider writing to the Berkeley Heights BOE requesting that they change the date of the Educator of the Year awards ceremony currently scheduled for 06/05/2023. Having it on this date would require teachers and their loved ones to come to Berkeley Heights on their day off. Here is a graph explaining why this is a problem: Here is the...
The Collaborative Model – Part Three
The Final Article in the Series on the BHPSNJ Implementation of the Collaborative Model As mentioned in Part Two, more recent educational papers have begun to focus on the real-life issues that have arisen as “consultation and collaboration” have become commonplace in schools. Much of the information below is from a paper by Stephen Hernandez at Hofstra University. (Link at...
BHCW 04/30/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to know about Berkeley Heights, NJ this week… Online Version Of Newsletter PDF Version of Newsletter: There are three ways to get BHCW content delivered to your doorstep: (1) Sign-Up for our weekly/bi weekly newsletter. This is the most popular option so far. Subscribers will get email with articles published for the time period in between. (2) Subscribe to our...
Berkeley Heights having the highest per-pupil cost with the lowest rankings makes Sense
It’s probably not the number of buildings, and we are definitely not spending money on textbooks and supplies. In one of the Budget Meetings, one BOE member (condescendingly) brushed off the concerns about our high pupil cost, implying that it was a function of the number of buildings the Berkeley Heights School District had. She also brought up Westfield as...
BHCW NIGHT WATCH EPISODE 15
We cover the Final Budget, French Under Fire (Again), District Leaks Family Information (Again), More Bad Surveys…. All Night Watch Episodes
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