Next Friday, July 20, will be the last day for Christine Kane, who has served the Bridgewater-Raritan School District as Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction over the past 8 years. In her new role, Ms. Kane will be assuming responsibilities as Project Director with the New Jersey Performance Assessment Alliance.
There she will be involved with the design of standards which are to be folded into New Jersey’s scholastic assessment programs. This effort is related to the federal No-Child-Left-Behind initiative. The Bridgewater-Raritan School District – together with at least 76 others in New Jersey – is a participant in NJPAA pilot programs (see http://www.njpaa.org/).
Christine Kane has racked up an impressive track record in the education field. She started her career at Holy Spirit, a parochial school in Sharon Hill, NJ. From there, she progressed to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania schools, rising from teaching to administrative responsibilities over a 19-year stretch. Other career moves took her to Colts Neck, Red Bank, and Clinton. Her tenure in the Bridgewater-Raritan schools caps a proud 42 years of teaching, course development, and administration.
Bridgewater and Raritan will face a tough challenge in finding a person with the breadth of experience and knowledge which Christine Kane brought to the student population in our district.
There she will be involved with the design of standards which are to be folded into New Jersey’s scholastic assessment programs. This effort is related to the federal No-Child-Left-Behind initiative. The Bridgewater-Raritan School District – together with at least 76 others in New Jersey – is a participant in NJPAA pilot programs (see http://www.njpaa.org/).
Christine Kane has racked up an impressive track record in the education field. She started her career at Holy Spirit, a parochial school in Sharon Hill, NJ. From there, she progressed to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania schools, rising from teaching to administrative responsibilities over a 19-year stretch. Other career moves took her to Colts Neck, Red Bank, and Clinton. Her tenure in the Bridgewater-Raritan schools caps a proud 42 years of teaching, course development, and administration.
Bridgewater and Raritan will face a tough challenge in finding a person with the breadth of experience and knowledge which Christine Kane brought to the student population in our district.
4 comments:
The District has no idea how hard it will be to find a replacement for Chris Kane. She is one of the most knowledgable, caring and skilled administrators in the state. Her leaving will be a real loss for the Bridgewater-Raritan School System.
Jeepers Creepers!!! I don't know where to start. If you want to meet a good administrator come meet the new assistant super Cheryl Dyer. At the 9 October BOE meeting she exposed the incredible dereliction of duty of the previous administration (and some board members) in full detail. Essentially no meaningful evaluation of curricula (an assistant's prime job responsibility) for 10 years!! The presentation is up on the BW-R website. It is as eye-popping as it is enraging. Dyer has done more in the few months she has been here in BW than Kane has in many years. I believe this is just the tip of the iceberg.
To trn,
Sorry for such a late reply to your 10/12/07 comment. I've since adjusted this site so that I am now notified by e-mail each time that a new comment is posted. I would like to read the October 9 presentation to which you refer, but can't locate the darn thing on the BR-BOE web site!
Please check out
this link
http://www.brrsd.k12.nj.us/files/filesystem/Curriculum%20Renewal%20Plan.ppt
And this to see column "Last Program Evaluation" starting on page 5
http://www.brrsd.k12.nj.us/files/filesystem/Program%20Evaluation%20Plan.doc
The curricula have been "revised" but what are the revisions based on? Do the programs work? Can't tell without an evaluation. It looks like things are starting to change for the better. The constructionist "religion" that has overtaken the whole country is slowly being exposed for the disaster it is. Prime examples of this disaster are manifest in the Everyday Math and Whole Language programs that we need to rid ourselves of in BWR. Many districts finally are getting rid of this nonsense. The constructionist dogma is perfect for some administrations: essentially no teaching, no testing, no grading, no math, no spelling, no grammar, no accountability. Just coast along and collect a nice salary and pension without much work.
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