New Location For Superintendent's 'Wisdom Event' Wednesday

The location of Superintendent Penny MacCormack's Wisdom Sharing Event on Wednesday has been moved into the Montclair High School. 

The event will start at 6:30 p.m. in auditorium of the high school, located at 100 Chestnut St. The event will begin with a 30-minute presentation, and then be followed by an interactive, community-building exercise in which your comments will help build a blueprint for the Montclair Public School's strategic plan.

The superintendent's event was originally scheduled to take place in the high school's amphitheater. 

MacCormack has spent the first 90 days of her tenure as superintendent on a listening and learning tour of the district, gaining insight and feedback from parents, teachers and students.  

The district's strategic plan includes addressing the achievement gap and missed performance goals MacCormack announced earlier in March. Recent data from standardized testing shows Montclair students failed to meet state proficiency standards in both language arts and mathematics.

In addition, large achievement gaps persist between types of students — in some instances more than a 30 percent.