New Year 2020

 

 

Happy New Year!

January 3, 2020

Dear School Community:

I'd like to welcome in the new year by continuing to share updates on our district goals.  In this update, I'm zooming in on District Goal #3 in the strand of Communication and Collaboration.  Our goal is "to develop and strengthen our relationships with both community and internal stakeholders through effective and enhanced communication and collaboration efforts."

We've taken several steps to meet this goal and actualize the belief that more communication isn't better.  Different communication isn't better.  Better communication is better.  Here's a list of actions we've recently engaged in as part of our realization of this goal.

  • We issued a community-wide Communications Survey in the Spring of 2019 to ascertain current communication avenues that our school community considers effective and to also identify areas for communication growth.

  • We assembled a group of twenty community members to participate in a focus group around district-wide communications.  The ideas shared and workshopped helped to inform some of the communications advancements outlined below.

  • We redesigned our most forward-facing communication vehicle, our district website.  The new design is rid of outdated and superfluous information.  It's simplified through the creation of one main site instead of several.  It is generally more user-friendly with fewer clicks to get to the most accessed information, and it's more modern in its form and thereby more aesthetically pleasing.

  • We implemented a "Friday Folder" to catalog important, but not urgent, school and community news that may be of interest to stakeholders so that everyone is kept informed while mainstreaming communication efforts.

  • We continue to send bi-monthly Superintendent Updates, like this one. 

  • We publish monthly building newsletters, written by Principals Murphy and Chibbaro, that highlight school news and important information.

  • We recently instituted a "Leadership Blog" to create an intellectual space for members of the district's leadership team to share thinking about educational topics that help build bridges between home and school.  We plan to post them monthly on our website, including our most recent entry written by Ms. Dana Cansian, one of our Supervisors of Curriculum & Instruction.  Access it here: https://www.kenilworthschools.com/board_of_education/leadership/leadership_blogs/december_2019

  • We're aiming to have a greater presence in Kenilworth Life & The Local Source as a way of sharing with the broader community the great things happening in our schools. 


  • We've ramp-ed up our postings to have a greater social media presence.  Many administrators, teachers, coaches and club advisors have their own social media pages.  Some pages you may want to follow are:
  • Facebook - @KenilworthBOE
  • District Instagram - @KenilworthSchools
  • Harding Elementary School Instagram - @harding_elementary
  • Brearley Middle-High School - @Brearley_Bears

I hope these aforementioned efforts keep you dialed into some of the exciting and innovative things happening in our schools, on our playing fields, and on our arts' stages.

Have a great weekend!

Sincerely,

Kyle C. Arlington

Superintendent of Schools

 

 

 

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