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Kean University adjunct professor Karen Stark, who taught at Westfield High School for 35 years, teaches a fall and spring graduate course on Holocaust education to Westfield educators. It is the 4th time the Holocaust Resource Center at Kean has chosen Westfield Public Schools to host these two courses.

Teaching the Holocaust and Genocide in Westfield Public Schools

For a 4th year, the Westfield Public School District hosts two important graduate level Holocaust Education courses to equip educators with teaching strategies to implement a longstanding multidisciplinary program in the district that includes age-appropriate instruction in the Holocaust and genocides in the K-12 curriculum.
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Superintendent's Synopsis

An overview from our director of counseling on Social and Emotional Learning, along with a report from the district's architect on capital projects for Summer 2019, were among the topics discussed at the November 13, 2018 meeting of the Board of Education. More information about the meeting can be found in Dr. Dolan's synopsis.
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Members of the Combat Logistics Batallion 25, 4th Marine Logistics Group present the colors during Edison Intermediate School’s annual Veterans Day assembly on Nov. 7.

Honoring Those Who Served

Students and staff across the Westfield Public School District honored the nation’s military veterans on Nov. 12 with assemblies and other commemorations to thank them for their service and sacrifice.
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McKinley 5th graders and their teacher Joseph Paradise share questions, predictions and observations about a novel they are reading with a fifth grade class in Atlanta, Georgia, part of the Global Read Aloud whose goal it is to connect the world through reading.

A Global Approach to Learning

On a recent Friday, a fifth grade class at McKinley Elementary School shares questions, predictions and observations about a novel they are reading with another fifth grade class. Not an unusual exercise in Westfield, which encourages this kind of student-driven exploration. What is unusual, however, is that the fifth graders in Westfield are discussing the novel "Amal Unbound" with fifth graders in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Photo image of a flyer asking Westfield High School alumni to visit the Alumni Outreach section of the district website to enter contact information and share news of interest for a new electronic newsletter to be published.

Calling all WHS Alumni

The Westfield Public School District invites WHS graduates to visit the Alumni Outreach section of the district website to enter contact information and share news of interest for a new electronic newsletter aimed at helping alumni engage and connect with each other and the school district.
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Creative pumpkin carving turns ordinary pumpkin into blue Cookie Monster, complete with chocolate chip cookies.

Happy Halloween!

There were dinosaurs and unicorns, superheroes and sports figures, skeletons and witches, as Westfield students across the school district celebrated Halloween with parades and parties on Oct. 31.
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Exterior of administration building at Elm Street.

Superintendent's Synopsis

Social and emotional learning was among the topics discussed at the October 30 meeting of the Board of Education. For more, please read Dr. Dolan's synopsis of the meeting.
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Tamaques 2nd grader Leo Bartolucci runs a ¼ mile lap around the school’s field as part of the Mileage Club which encourages and rewards participants for every mile they complete over the school year.

Recess Running Clubs Encourage Fitness and Fun

On any given day during recess, Westfield elementary students might be found engaged in energetic games, gleefully bouncing balls, or just generally scampering about. But look closely and you’ll also spy a determined group of youngsters running the roughly quarter mile perimeter of an elementary field over and over again.
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