Dear Stanhope Community Member,

We are in the process of forming the STANHOPE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, whose mission will be to promote the excellence of the Stanhope schools, and are seeking up to 10 individuals to serve as members of the Foundation's Board of Trustees. The Trustees will be the Foundation's leaders and will spearhead this important way for the community to support our schools in the years ahead.

As school budgets have become more constrained in recent years, communities around the country have created school foundations that independently raise money to support the missions of their schools. In New Jersey, there are close to 100 school foundations.

Our Foundation needs committed individuals to chart its course, to organize fundraising activities, and to establish the process for making grants to specific projects within the Stanhope schools. The best Board for the Foundation is one both that includes representatives of our community as a whole (parents, teachers, retired persons) as well as individuals with special skills who would be willing to lend to their expertise to the Foundation (an accountant, a media or public relations expert, an attorney, someone one with non-profit or fundraising experience).

This is an opportunity to make a difference and to be a leader of something great.

If you are interested in being a Trustee of the Stanhope Educational Foundation, please send an email by no later than Friday, December 9 to boe@stanhopeschools.org, and include "Stanhope Educational Foundation" in the subject line.

Sincerely,

STANHOPE BOARD OF EDUCATION

All of a sudden, it's 2012! With barely a chance to catch our collective breath, we're back to a full and exciting schedule.

January has already seen our eighth graders visit Lenape Valley Regional High School to preview what's in store for them next year. For those parents, I'm sure it seems like only yesterday that they were dropping their children off at the kindergarten door. We've also been enjoying our boys and girls basketball teams as they take on our neighboring schools under the talented management of coaches Jason Doniloski and Raina Bartelsen. It's great to see their enthusiasm.

Believe it or not, we've already had numerous meetings about the 2012-13 school year with a look towards expanding our program offerings and tailoring our instruction to meet the needs of all our students. We'll be posting news on both fronts as it develops.

We have some enjoyable social events coming up sponsored by our ever-generous HSA. Winter Wonderland on January 27 promises to be a fun-filled evening, and we're looking forward to Family Bingo, always a great time. We hope that many of you will join us.

As always, I welcome your dropping by with questions or comments, or just to say hello. It's always a pleasure to see you.

Best,

Dr. Maria Cleary

CSA

Hello,

I just wanted to take the opportunity to tell you that the curriculum revision process is underway! The health and physical education will be posted on the website in the near future.

I will be making our presentation of our NJ ASK scores at the November board meeting and the Sussex County CAP parent program is on Monday November 7th at 6:30 in the library.

As always, if you have any questions please call or send me an email.

Regards,

Nadia Inskeep