Welcome to the Mount Laurel Township School District web site. We are located in New Jersey, USA. It is
our hope that whether you are looking at our schools for the first time
or are a routine visitor, you will find the information you seek on these
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We're Off To A New School Year in Mount Laurel!
Mount Laurel School staff members returned to the district before Labor Day this year for in-service sessions. Students in Grades 1-8 will return on September 7 and Kindergarten students will join them the following day.
New Administrators Welcomed Mount Laurel students and staff will welcome several new administrators when the school doors open on September 7. Three new principals will take the helm on the first day of school, along with a new assistant principal and three new curriculum supervisors.
Christopher Clarke moved into the principal’s seat at Harrington Middle School on August 1, filling the vacancy created by the retirement of former Principal Robert Mitchell. He comes to Mount Laurel from Medford Township Schools, where he was a Supervisor of Instruction and a seventh and eighth-grade Social Studies teacher over an eight-year period. Clarke holds a B.S. in Secondary Education from Penn State University, and a Masters in Education from Temple University.
Lori Zataveski has been named Principal of the Countryside Elementary School, replacing Robert Smith, who retired in June. Zataveski has been a teacher at Countryside for 20 years, and has taught second, third and fourth-grades. She taught in Burlington City prior to coming to Mount Laurel. She holds a B.S. in Elementary Education and Psychology from Lycoming College and a Masters in School Leadership from Delaware Valley College.
Sean Sweeney will take the helm as Principal of the Larchmont Elementary School on September 1. He replaces Kelly Graber, who has transferred to a position as Curriculum Supervisor within the district. A former Assistant Principal at the Mount Laurel Hartford School, Sweeney also came to Mount Laurel from the Medford Township Schools, where he was a 6th-Grade Science Teacher. He holds a B.S. in secondary education from Penn State and a Masters in Education from Rider University.
Marques Stanard has been named the new Assistant Principal at the Mount Laurel Hartford School. He replaces Sean Sweeney, the new principal at the Larchmont School. Stanard is new to the Mount Laurel Schools, having come from the Lawnside Public Schools in Lawnside, NJ, where he taught seventh and eighth-grade Science for seven years. Prior to that time, he taught in the Granville Charter School in Trenton. He holds a B.S in Biology from Hampton University and an M.S. from Wilmington University.
Three new Curriculum Supervisors have been named in the district to replace retiring Supervisors Nancy Ireland and Lawrence O’Keefe and Kristen McDonald, who resigned last year. Kathleen Haines, Kelly Graber and Kimberly Hannigan all hail from the Mount Laurel Schools, and will serve as 10-month employees.
Kathleen Haines will be based at the Springville School. She has seven years of experience as a first-grade teacher at the Hillside School and was a teacher in the Gifted Academic Program (GAP) for three years at Springville and Countryside Schools. She holds a B.S. in Elementary Education from West Chester University and a Masters in Educational Leadership from Wilmington University.
Kelly Graber will be based at the Mount Laurel Hartford School. She has been with the district since 1999, serving as Assistant Principal at Hartford, Acting Principal at the Countryside School and most recently as Principal at the Larchmont Elementary School. She holds a B.A. from LaSalle University in Secondary Education and English and a M.A. in Educational Administration from Rider University.
Kimberly Hannigan will be based at the Hillside School. A Mount Laurel employee since 2005, she taught third-grade at the Larchmont School for two years and was a Reading Specialist at the Hillside School from 2007 to 2010. She holds a B.S. in Elementary Education from the University of Scranton and an M.A. from Rider University.
Here's A Cool Link For All Learners What do you want to know about? What's the question that is burning to be answered? We have just the place for you to visit while school is in recess. Check out this video explanation. And then have fun finding all of the answers you seek!
Help With Obtaining a Home Computer Need a computer but lack the resources to provide one for your home? We may be able to help. The Mount Laurel School District has entered into an agreement with the South Jersey Apple Users Group, a tremendous non-profit organization based in Medford Lakes. In the past, we recycled computers that were no longer able to be used in our educational program. But our new agreement with the SJAUG allows its members to refurbish these computers and send them back out into the community to new homes where there is a proven need. Here's a quick look at the Mac4Students Program.
How Is Technology Integrated In Our Schools?
Our new three-year technology plan has been developed and approved by the county. View the entire plan here.
Take A Class, Learn A New Hobby ... Our Fall Community Education Course Catalog is out! Review our wide range of course offerings close to home at affordable prices!
Quick Links For Parents ...
Family Portal and What We See TV! Links to photos and videos from our schools, as well as the documents and forms you use most! Power School
Keep up with daily announcements, assignments and grades. Here's a brochure on PowerSchool that will familiarize you with the system if you have not used it in the past.
Lunchbox
Keep track of your child's lunch account and deposit funds. Complete system instructions are right here.
Emergency E-Mail
Sign-up here to receive emergency notices at home or work. Sign-up other contacts or family members who might need to know if there's a local emergency.
Sign Up for Emergency Notifications via Nixle This is a community notification system that will send messages instantly to your e-mail or via text to your cell phone. In an emergency, we post all notices here as well as on our web, on our in-house emergency e-mail system (above) and on Facebook and Twitter. 2010-2011 Easy View One-Page School Calendar
Download to your desktop at home or work for future reference.
Lunch Menu
Select either K-4 or Hartford-Harrington menu from the sub calendar drop-down box.
E-Newsletter
Sign up here to receive our district e-newsletter at home or at your office.
Online Backpack
Check here for any forms you might need, and let us know what's missing so that we can post it for you.
Search Our Online Library
All of our library resources are online and available here. If you would like more information about using the Destiny library catalog, contact the library media specialist at your school.
Community News
Find local activities of interest to your family. Have news to add to this section? Here's a flyer detailing the procedure.
What Will My Child Learn When?
Our complete curriculum is posted through the links on your left, but here's a quick guide to general knowledge by grade level.
Dr. Rath's State of the District Report Dr. Rath's State of the District Report for the 2009-2010 School Year. Parents may view the video version on What We See TV! through our Family Portal.
Hartford's Tech Website Parents: Want to learn along with us? Want to dazzle your children with your knowledge of multimedia software or graphic design? Check out Hartford Teacher Nick Handley's New Tech Website. It's amazing!
Annual GAP Nomination Period Open The annual nomination period for the Gifted Academic Program (GAP) is now open. Parents may complete a nomination form available from your child's school.
"The History of Mount Laurel" Several years ago, Former Curriculum Supervisor Eileen Flynn researched and wrote "The History of Mount Laurel" for use in our second-grade curriculum. Her history book is still used as part of our educational program and is available here for you.
The mission of the Mount Laurel Township School District is to prepare all children to be successful citizens and workers in the 21st Century. As aligned with the 2004 revised New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, this includes educating students to read with comprehension, write clearly, compute accurately, think critically, reason, discover, innovate, collaborate, and use information to solve problems.
The Mount Laurel Board of Education
The Mount Laurel Board of Education meets twice monthly, as a rule. The first meeting of the month is a work session where matters are discussed, but action is generally not taken. The regular meeting follows a week later, as a rule, and it is at this meeting that the board votes on agenda items. Both the work session and regular meetings offer time for public comment.
Here's a complete list of meeting dates, locations and times. This brochure explains board process & procedures.
