Newark Excels

The 2012-2013 Teacher Evaluation Guidebook is now available! Click here to download a PDF of the Guidebook, or visit the Framework for Effective Teaching page to browse the website version. This year’s Guidebook provides all teachers and evaluators with the following:  Important background on Newark Public Schools’ vision for effective teaching A comprehensive overview of [...]

Nominate someone today! Launched in 2012, the Fishman Prize for Superlative Classroom Practice is an annual award for exceptionally effective teachers working in high-poverty public schools. No more than five teachers are awarded the prize each year. The prize is named for Shira Fishman, a math teacher at McKinley Technology High School in Washington, DC. In [...]

New Common Core Resources!   We are excited to present our new Common Core Resources pages to support NPS teachers focus their instruction toward the Common Core State Standards. Since the district-wide transition to the CCSS in August, NPS has launched a new Framework for Effective Teaching  that outlines our shared vision of excellent classroom [...]

The Common Core State Standards, in their own words, “define the rigorous skills and knowledge in English Language Arts and Mathematics that need to be effectively taught and learned for students to be ready to succeed academically in credit-bearing, college-entry courses and in workforce training programs.” A cornerstone of Superintendent Anderson’s vision for transforming teaching [...]