Communications Committee highlights website award and broader outreach
The Ridgewood Board of Education said its updated 2025–26 website won a national award as the district shifts updates across more platforms.
Two hosts walk through the week’s edition in conversation — communications committee report (website award and, superintendent report (deferred/not delivered in transcript), and what’s coming next. Generated by Aware, from this week’s verified summaries.
The committee said repeating information across several channels is intentional: families do not all get news the same way, and the district wants updates to reach them.
A school website became the board’s clearest good-news item.
At the Ridgewood Board of Education meeting, the Communications Committee reported that the district’s updated 2025–26 website received a National Award of Excellence from the National School Public Relations Association. The committee tied the recognition to the district’s strategic plan, especially its engagement pillar, and said the work included logos and broader rebranding efforts.
The report was not just about the award. The committee said engagement with social media announcements has continued to rise month to month, suggesting the district’s messages are reaching more people than they were earlier in the year. Members said that trend matters because school information now travels through several channels instead of one main feed.
That shift showed up most clearly in the district’s approach to Twitter. The committee said the district has reduced its reliance on that platform for distributing information and is now using multiple social platforms instead. It acknowledged that some posts may look repetitive across those channels, but said the overlap is deliberate: the goal is to make sure families and residents see updates wherever they already get their information.
Superintendent Report (Deferred/Not Delivered in Transcript)
One expected report never really arrived.
Early in the meeting, the presiding officer said the Board would wait for Dr. Schwarz to return before taking up the superintendent report. But in the transcript provided, no later section clearly shows a distinct superintendent report with substantive updates.
Instead, the meeting moved on. The Board proceeded through committee reports, action items, public comment, and then a motion to enter executive session. That means residents reading the record of this meeting will not find a separate superintendent update in the available transcript.
The practical effect is simple: any superintendent-level news from that night was either deferred, omitted from the transcript segment provided, or folded into other parts of the meeting without a labeled report. For readers tracking district priorities week to week, this meeting offered committee business and procedural action, but not a standalone update from the superintendent.
Board sets executive session procedure
The Board approved a motion to enter executive session under NJSA 10:4-12 to discuss personnel matters. It said the minutes will be released once confidentiality no longer applies, and it held a first reading to accept the July 20, 2026 executive session minutes without recorded debate.
These steps govern how the board handles confidential personnel matters and when the public may later see the record.
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