August 29, 2024
Dear Franklin Lakes Families,
We’re excited to welcome our children back for the 2024 - 2025 school year. We hope this summer was filled with excitement, laughter, and time well spent with family and friends. Over the summer, the Board of Education, our Administrative Team, Central Office staff, Maintenance Staff and Administrative Assistants have been working to prepare a safe learning environment for all.
Some of the highlights we’d like to share are:
- Collaborating with FLEF to secure funding for classroom and program enhancements
- Collaborating with the PTA on Back To School Packets and providing special ways to welcome back students & staff
- Welcoming our new Director of Special Services, Christy Voorhees, and Supervisor of Curriculum & Instruction, Jaime Preziosi
- Welcoming our Interim Business Administrator, Emidio D’Andrea and our incoming Business Administrator/Board Secretary Dina Messery
- Welcoming 17 new teachers across the District
- Welcoming back our School Resource Officers
- Preparation for updated HVAC units in FAMS, HMR and WAS
- Robust Summer Learning opportunities
- Committee work, inclusive of teachers and administrators, in the areas of English Language Arts and Mathematics curriculum.
- Completion of a 5 year Strategic Plan with an anticipated public presentation on 9/24
We are grateful to our PTAs, FLEF, Board of Education, and community partners in helping us provide enhanced opportunities for all to have a successful year!
As educators, parents and members of this community, we are blessed to collectively support children. A child's whole world is viewed through the eyes of wonder and excitement. Our firm goal is to continually support that view and provide an environment for all to thrive. On behalf of the Franklin Lakes Public Schools, I wish you all the best for the remainder of the summer and look forward to seeing you soon.
Sincerely,
Greg Maceri
Superintendent of Schools
2024 -2025 District Goals
- Academic Excellence and Opportunity: The District will engage in professional learning activities to support prioritization of high expectations for learners and provision of rigorous instruction that deeply engages learners with grade-appropriate material and assignments.
- Staff Engagement and Professional Learning: Through embedded professional learning, the District will support educators in: use of valid and reliable assessments for all students, analyzing assessment results, adapting/ modifying instruction to meet student needs, and reassessing to monitor growth to all students.
- Partnering with our Community: Educators will engage in professional learning activities to support collaboration with colleagues, learners, and their families in support of learner development and achievement.
- Referendum Analysis: The District will analyze and prioritize facility needs at each building and appropriately allocate funds to meet those needs.
2023-2024 District Goals
1. In collaboration and partnership with their families, foster safe, supportive, and positive learning conditions and school communities for students in support of academic growth and social and emotional development.
2. In pursuit of academic excellence for students, foster educator leadership within and across the district in support of expertise development, positive working conditions, and collaboration in the schools, district and in the profession.
3. Continue the multi-year implementation of New Jersey Tiered Systems of Support (NJTSS) so as to ensure access to coordinated, responsive and needs-based academic, behavioral, wellness/health, and attendance supports for students.
District Goals: 2022 - 2023
- The District is committed to support improvements to Intervention & Referral Services / Tiered Systems of Support to ensure that data informs and drives the process. Improvements will assure access to coordinated, needs-based, and responsive support from academic, mental health, enrichment, behavioral and health services, while accelerating student learning and meeting needs in other areas. This goal supports initiatives in three major areas of instruction:
- Special Education
- General Education
- Supplemental Services such as
- Academic Intervention
- Gifted & Talented
This goal provides opportunities for certified staff to participate in professional learning activities to support improvements to I&RS and Tiered Systems of Support (Tiers I, II, III) and requires the collaboration of interdepartmental staff across the entire District.
- The District is committed to providing teaching staff with monthly opportunities to work within supportive, high-functioning Professional Learning Communities to build capacity and deepen expertise. The purpose is to engage in collaborative tasks and reflective dialogue that improves their teaching and their students’ learning. Professional Learning Communities can be:
- School-based
- Departmental
- District-based
- Subject Specific
- The District is committed to support each individual community school culture by engaging in school based initiatives and by supporting the continued development of the parent/school relationship, inclusive of:
- Supportive services that promote health/wellness
- Coordinated conditions of learning that will foster social and emotional well-being of students, families and educators.