Glen Rock’s Engineering Program in the New York Times
Today’s New York Times shows an article focused on Glen Rock’s new engineering in elementary schools program.
Check it out!
Quoted from the article:
Here in Glen Rock, where students have long excelled at math and science, administrators and teachers decided to incorporate engineering into the elementary grades to connect classroom learning to real life, as well as [...]
Pool re-opens! Children rejoice! Adults sweat!
That time is upon us, once again — the Glen Rock Municipal Pool (ironically not named after anyone, yet) is open for the season. While currently open only on weekends, once the schools let out, it will be open every day. Pass range from $40 for those under 5 to $110 for each adult. Mercifully, [...]
School Budget Elections Tomorrow!
Tomorrow, Tuesday April 20th is election day for the borough of Glen Rock. On the ballot is the school’s annual budget. Please remember to vote. It’s important that every resident has their say on the programs and plans for the future of our children.
There are lots of sites with information on what’s on the ballot, [...]
Glen Rock Middle School Student Wins $50k for School
This story was so good, it couldn’t NOT be posted here on GlenRockParent.com. Alexandra Mendelsohn, an 8th grader at Glen Rock Middle School, won an essay contest sponsored by Samsung in the process earning her school $50,000 worth of audio/visual equipment and software. Congratulations to Alexandra, her family and the students and staff of Glen [...]
First Grade Projects
We’ve all had to participate in group projects over the years. Whether it was in school or at work, getting lumped together with a group of folks you barely knew and asked to lead, manage, produce and deliver some kind of output has been a bonding and potentially harrowing experience that can be mutually commiserated. [...]
Hey, I didn’t know you lived in Glen Rock!
As parents in suburbia it often feels like we’re stuck out on an island while all the hip parents who live in the city have their pick of activities, get-togethers, happy hours and networking events. As it turns out, a little bit of Googling will turn up many different kinds of groups that are already [...]
Nominate a Glen Rock parent
We’d like to start a monthly feature where we highlight one extraordinary Glen Rock parent. Each month we’ll profile someone who you, our readers, feel should get the spotlight. They don’t have to be doing anything unusually remarkable or amazing – just being good parents (in our community). At this time we’d like to solicit [...]
Happy New Year from GlenRockParent.com!
Quick wish for a happy, healthy, productive and fun 2010. We’re expecting big things for GlenRockParent.com in 2010 and we need your help to get there! Look for new content, new authors and lots of interesting reading and conversation in the new year.
My kid’s flunking science!
Apparently, a lot of kids, mine included came home with less-than-awesome science assessment grades this week. Now, we all know our kid is the smartest kid ever so how can this be?! Well, in an email received today from Central School’s Sandra Nestor she explains that, “This year is the first year we are implementing [...]