STATEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
We, at Northern Valley Regional High School, provide an environment in which each student seeks answers to questions, challenges assumptions and develops self-worth. The school encourages individual academic excellence, aesthetic appreciation and moral integrity. Recognition of academic and cultural diversity promotes mutual respect and acceptance.
We provide a framework for the immediate and future concerns of our students. Such provisions require a constantly critical reevaluation of curriculum and course design to keep abreast of global research and new techniques within our respective disciplines. We promote students’ respect for learning and their desire to acquire knowledge through traditional, as well as appropriate technological means.
Education requires a shared commitment. Therefore, the responsibility of the community is to support and complement the school’s philosophy and goals. This joint commitment of students, professional staff, Board of Education and community forms the basis for a challenging and effective program.
Northern Valley Regional High School District
Board of Education Goals
2009-2010
1. To continue to focus on increasing student achievement by employing the following:
Increasing teachers’ use of differentiated instructional techniques in the classrooms of the
Northern Valley Regional High Schools.
An increase in the number and variety of student internships available to seniors and career
mentors to students in grades 10 through 12. Performance assessments will be used to
assess the students’ experiences.
A revised Algebra I curriculum will be implemented in the fall of 2009. This curriculum
replaces the previous Algebra I curriculum and is aligned to the New Jersey Core Curriculum
Content Standards for Mathematics and the Achieve, Inc. Standards. Also, in the 2010-2011
school year, this Algebra I curriculum will replace the current Alg/Geo I curriculum. Middle
school and high school math teachers will continue to collaborate on the implementation of
this revised curriculum. When students will take the pilot of the new Algebra I End-of-Course
Assessment in spring, 2010, the Algebra I Learning Community will analyze the resulting
data to inform subsequent instructional practice and/or make curricular modifications. By the
end of the 2010-2011 school year, all students, with the exception of those excluded by the
dictates of their Individual Educational Plans (IEP), will have completed the Algebra I course
of study.
2. To complete the referendum building projects as passed by the voters.
3. To improve the current district planning process to foster increased involvement from both
the internal Northern Valley School community and the larger community comprised of
citizens from the seven boroughs.
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Superintendent