Haddonfield BOE swears in new members, names new vice president
The Haddonfield Public Schools Board of Education held its reorganization meeting last Thursday.
The newly elected BOE members, Adam M. Sangillo, Susan Kutner and Joshua Drew, were all sworn in for three-year terms after being chosen by the people of Haddonfield in last November’s elections. Glenn Moramarco was re-elected as president of the board and Kutner was voted in as vice president; both positions passed unanimously.
Moramarco has been on the board since 2008 and has been president of the board since 2013. Kutner was chosen and brought in by the board when previous board member Andrew Berlin had to resign from his position last year. Both were honored to be chosen for their positions. They hope to work with the community and have a successful bond referendum, as well as continue with the district’s high academic quality.
“I am honored to be selected for this, especially after only a few months on the board… (I hope to) continue to build confidence within the community, especially for the referendum, that we’re doing things right and listening to them,” Kutner said.
“I’m grateful for the confidence in the committee, and I’m looking forward to hopefully leading a successful referendum for the schools… For me the major goal is to fix the schools and continue with the academic excellence that Haddonfield is already known for,” Moramarco said.
Various other professional appointments were made that night as well.
In other news:
• Sue Halbert’s third-grade class at Tatem Elementary School was commended for two projects it participated in and won this past school year. The first was for winning the Global Monster Project with their monster Bobbi Wasabi. For this project, students from places such as England, Myan- mar, Brazil and the United States chose a particular area of an imaginary monster and described it in great detail. A coordinator put them all together to provide a description for all 47 participating classes to build a monster. Halbert’s class was the one chosen as the closest to the description and won.
The second was its class blog, which received Best Class Blog. The Edublog Awards, started in 2004, is a community-based incentive created in response to community concerns relating to how schools, districts and educational institutions were blocking access of learner and teacher blog sites for educational purposes.
The purpose of the Edublog Awards is to promote and demonstrate the educational values of these social media. In the class blogs category Halbert’s class was №1. The blog can be found at 3hcrew.edublogs.org.
• The next BOE meeting will be on Thursday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. in the high school library.
