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Our Superintendent
Messages To the School Community
Dear Irvington Learning Community,
A new year is here again! The New Year will usher new hopes and beginnings to the school district. Let us live richer, grow wiser, and attain higher goals each day! Surely, I am encouraged that 2012 will fill your heart with new aspirations, open up new and better horizons, and bring forth the promises for a brighter tomorrow.
Please do not be discouraged by the negative rhetoric being espoused about public education. The results are in, and New Jersey had one of the best educational systems in the nation. Although there is much yet to be achieved, our mission is to prepare our students as participants in society as well as global and national leaders. We are committed to working with you and our partners to collaboratively ensure that our mission is achieved. Since America’s future depends on how well we educate our youth to run the country, we must do the best job educating them.
We have many reasons to be grateful. Chiefly, our students and staff have made noteworthy achievements that affirm the effective work being done in Irvington. Next, we continue to use measurable objectives and demand that our students spend ample time on the never-ending activities required for paideia – deep education. Furthermore, we use research based strategies in our classrooms and fund professional staff development for teachers because “professional staff development provides positive impact on state assessment scores and educational stakeholders may benefit from having an awareness of the effectiveness of such programs on student achievement” (Hasty, 2010, p.123). Finally, we expect teachers to continue to provide a myriad of opportunities for students to practice skills relating to student assessments. “Teachers teaching, students learning” remains our mantra. As your Superintendent, it is my obligation and pleasure to serve as the district’s GPS continuously providing pointed direction on our academic journey.
Please join me in turning Irvington Public Schools into a model of excellence preparing our students to be successful in the 21st century; they deserve nothing less!
Deepest and warmest regards,
Dr. Ethel J. Hasty
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Copyright © 2002 - 2012 Irvington Public Schools. All rights reserved.