Hazlet School Chosen For 2024 Promising Practices Project

HAZLET, NJ — Middle Road School has been chosen as one of 52 schools to participate in the 2024 Promising Practices Project, a research initiative aiming to identify and spotlight innovative practices that NJ schools implemented to improve learning as a response to COVID-19.

The project is a state partnership between the NJ Department of Education and Rutgers University’s NJ State Policy Lab and the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies, officials said.

College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School and Navesink Elementary School were the two other schools in Monmouth County selected to participate in the project.

According to the NJ Department of Education, the Promising Practices study "analyzes the practices and activities that bolstered student learning" as well as their "positive effect on student performance in ELA and mathematics on the New Jersey State Learning Assessments (NJSLA)."

Throughout the project, officials said the NJ Department of Education and Rutgers research team will focus on the local education agencies selected to “uncover innovative, promising practices that significantly impact students’ academic performance.”

Once the promising practices are determined, the strategies will be disseminated throughout the state via “relevant presentations, reports and convenings.”

To learn more about the 2024 Promising Practices Project and see a full list of schools selected, you can visit the NJ Department of Education website.