NJSBA at Your Service: ACES for Savings
What’s ACES? Is your school district a member? If not, why not? The Alliance for Competitive Energy Services (ACES) has worked for more than 15…
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School Leader
School Leader, NJSBA’s bi-monthly magazine, focuses on trends and issues of interest to boards of education and their top administrators.
MAY/JUNE 2015 • VOLUME 45 • 6
Articles
Legally Speaking: Schools, Religion and the Law
Although it has been more than a half century since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down school-sponsored prayer, controversies concerning religion in the public schools…
Capitol Watch: What’s Next for ESEA?
Fifty years ago, the original Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 was enacted by President Lyndon B. Johnson. This law represented a major…
Readers Forum: A Superintendent’s Salute to a Departing School Board Member
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” —Denis Waitley Service to a…
ELFNJ: Safety Tips for Prom and Graduation Season
Prom and graduation season should be an exciting time for students. The right guidance from parents and teachers will help keep it safe and enjoyable.…
Executive Word: Congratulations to the Class of 2015
School board members often tell me that the reward for their service comes in June. It is exemplified by the smiles and handshakes that go…
President's Message: School Safety – The Eternal Vigil
Of all of the duties of a local school board, are any more fundamentally important than keeping the children who are in our care safe…
Let’s Stop Talking About Flipped Classrooms and Start Talking About Flipped Learning
I will never forget the exact moment that I became complacent. It was October of 2010, my tenth year in education. I walked in on…
Plan B for Blizzards
Although it was only about sixteen months ago, it’s easy to forget that the winter of 2013-2014 was brutal. In fact, according to Office of…
Digital Citizenship: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
With access to over 700 million websites and more than two billion people online, students today live in a very different world than we grew…
The Best Day of the Year
Every year, in most school districts, there is a day that is given over to celebrating learning and academic achievement with an age-old rite of…
Busy Work or Home Learning?
Homework is an educational tool that has always been a part of schools. It affects every member of a school community: students, parents, teachers, administrators…