Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Maplewood, South Orange and the BOE will convene Thursday to discuss schools, budgets.
Elected officials from the Maplewood Township Committee, the South Orange Board of Trustees and the South Orange - Maplewood Board of Education (BOE) will meet for a special workshop on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. in the district meeting room at 525 Academy St. Agenda items include the discussion of potentially moving the BOE elections to November, and how the move would affect the role of the Board of School Estimate; upcoming capital and redevelopment plans for both towns; budget previews; an update on residency issues and the district's reregistration process (and how the district works with the administrations of both towns on the issue), and emergency management. The agenda is attached to this article as a PDF. The meeting is open to…
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Students use online resources to communicate and demonstrate
Adults who bemoan the emerging organizational skills typical of middle school students take note: the eighth graders who have demonstrated at South Orange Middle School (SOMS) in recent weeks have used social media to organize their protests. Shortly after news spread around South Orange Middle School that two eighth grade Social Studies teachers, Steven Cohen and Kathleen McKort, were to be denied tenure, students shared the news with Columbia High School students via email. Many of those students, who had the teachers while they were at SOMS, spread the news further and joined a newly-established "closed" Facebook group. Several of the students credit the Facebook group with sharing the information. "I learned about Mr. Cohen and Ms. …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Monday's Board of Education meeting was standing room only.
Current and former students, parents and faculty members filled the room at Monday's Board of Education meeting, nearly all there to protest the district's decision not to grant tenure to teachers Kathleen McCort and Steven Cohen. Both teach eighth grade Social Studies at South Orange Middle School. In an hour of emotional public commentary, Board members heard repeatedly of what Columbia High School teacher and district parent Kate Dodd described as a "disconnect" between the administration decision and the public outcry against that choice. Dodd said she "experienced directly the benefit of his teaching as a teacher and as a parent." She noted that many students in her AP Art History class have studied with Cohen. "He is phenomenal." "…
SOMS Students
7:10 pm on Monday, June 4, 2012
To anyone who is reading this article and trying to watch the video attached but can't that is simply because I disabled embedding of my videos. But you are more then welcome to watch ANY and ALL of the videos on my youtube sight. The links to our facebook and twitter pagers are also below as well as on the youtube channel. Links: http://www.youtube.com/SOMSstudents http://www.facebook.com/… more ›