Lisa Mezik

The strategic plan is dedicated to nurturing a supportive culture, embracing individual diversity to ensure academic, social, and emotional success for all. It focuses on three primary areas: Academic Success, Supportive Culture, and Facilities & Security, outlining various initiatives across planning, in-progress, and completed phases.

The Rockaway Township School District's Safe Return to In-Person Instruction and Service Continuity Plan outlines strategies to ensure a safe and operational school environment in response to the American Rescue Plan Act. The plan focuses on maintaining health and safety through measures such as universal mask usage, physical distancing, hand hygiene, enhanced facility cleaning and ventilation, contact tracing, diagnostic screening, and appropriate accommodations for students with disabilities, while also encouraging vaccination. Additionally, it guarantees service continuity by implementing a full-day instructional schedule, comprehensive academic intervention programs, universal screening, a Response to Intervention (RTI) system, and robust social-emotional support for students and staff, including partnerships for mental health.

The Rockaway Township School District's LEA Plan outlines measures for the safe return to in-person instruction and ensures continuity of services, as mandated by the Federal American Rescue Plan Act. Key focus areas include maintaining health and safety through strategies such as mask wearing, physical distancing, handwashing, cleaning facilities, contact tracing, and diagnostic screening. The plan also details provisions for academic intervention, universal screening, social-emotional support, and trauma-informed professional development to address students' and staff's needs, aiming to restore a normal school schedule with full-day instruction while complying with federal mandates and state health guidance.

The strategic plan dashboard for Rockaway Township Schools outlines progress on goals for the 2020-2021 school year, aiming to open minds and worlds for every child's potential and nurture a supportive culture for academic, social, and emotional success. The plan focuses on three key areas: Academic Success and Agility, fostering rich learning environments and personalized learning; Safe & Supportive Culture for All, emphasizing student success, character education, and community involvement with a focus on diversity and inclusion; and Facilities & Security, addressing infrastructure improvements and enhancing student safety.

This strategic plan outlines key objectives across Academics, Culture, and Infrastructure. Academic goals include creating bilingual programs, implementing coherent curricula, promoting social-emotional development, addressing special education needs, and balancing technology use. Cultural priorities focus on centralized communication, expanding mental health support, increasing community and parent involvement, establishing a cohesive Code of Conduct, bolstering transition plans, and fostering student leadership. Infrastructure objectives include planning for student population growth, improving aesthetics, updating facilities plans, and auditing security.