NBOE Teacher Talk

Message from the Deputy Superintendent

Academic Walkthroughs
 
As shared by your school's leadership team, this document captures the district's academic walkthrough expectations. Please review it and access it as needed for reference.
 
COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Guidance for Staff
 
Governor Phil Murphy signed  Executive Order #253, requiring all preschool to Grade 12 school personnel to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by October 18, 2021 or be subject to COVID-19 PCR testing at minimum one to two times per week. Governor Murphy also announced that all State employees must be fully

Message from Superintendent León and Deputy Superintendent Johnson

Dear Teachers and Staff,
 
It is critical to remember that this year is like no other year before. The 9th grader that stands before you asking for your help has not had a normal school year since he was in 6th grade. The second grader that reaches for your hand in support has not had a normal year since she was in Pre-Kindergarten. Over the past two years, some of our students have only been in classrooms for a total of 9 months, while others had not seen the inside of a school building since March

Message from Dr. Mary Ann Reilly

Dear Teachers and Staff, 
 
All day, I kept returning to a sentence from the new Richard Powers’ novel, Bewilderment. The narrator, Theo Byrne, an astrobiologist, says: 
 
Watching medicine fail my child, I developed a crackpot theory: Life is something we need to stop correcting. 
 
I don’t know why that sentence resonated, but I think it has something to do with the tenuousness of living 18-months during a pandemic and how sustained stress worries a body, a kind of erosion of the spirit. There is a grace though that comes from simply

Message from Dr. Mary Ann Reilly

Excellent teachers make a significant difference in students´ lives during the year they teach them and beyond. On behalf of the Office of Teaching & Learning, I would like to congratulate all school-based Teachers of the 2020-2021 School Year! We are grateful for your ingenuity, dedication to students, and exemplary practice.  

I would like to acknowledge DeJanee Martinez of Bruce Street School for the Deaf, for being selected as Newark's Teacher of the Year. Congratulations and continue to be the inspiration that you are for all! 

Have a wonderful week.

Dr

Message from Dr. Mary Ann Reilly

Dear Teachers & Staff, 

I want to echo the message John Abeigon, your NTU President, sent on Friday. He quoted Neil Gaiman who said, "I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly; you're doing something."

I hope you will remain curious and in doing so embrace that wide-awake living that Gaiman

Message from Dr. Mary Ann Reilly

Good Morning Teachers and Staff,
 
Maya Angelou in speaking about reading and books said, “When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”

We are so excited to share this year's summer reading book lists. It is a terrific collection. As in the past, all students will receive a physical, not electronic, book. These books allow the reader opportunities to