Rumson-Fair Haven District Gets High Grades In Digital Citizenship

RUMSON, NJ — Common Sense, a national organization helping students and families navigate media and technology, has recognized Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School once again as a "Common Sense School," the district says.

The Common Sense resources teach students, educators and parents tangible skills related to internet safety, protecting online reputations and personal privacy, media balance, managing online relationships, and media literacy, the district said in a news release.

The free K–12 curriculum provided by the nonprofit is used in classrooms across all 50 states, in more than 80,000 schools by more than 1,000,000educators, the district said.

"We're honored to be recognized as a Common Sense School," said Superintendent Darren Groh.

"By preparing our students to use technology safely and responsibly, we are providing them an opportunity to build lifelong habits to help them succeed in a tech-driven world," he said.

Since 2019, the school "has demonstrated its commitment to taking a whole-community approach to preparing its students to think critically and use technology responsibly to learn, create, and participate while preparing them for the perils that exist in the online realm, such as plagiarism, loss of privacy, and cyberbullying," the district said in a news release.

And the school is committed to giving students the support to "take ownership of their digital lives, engage with real issues, and change their communities for the better," the district says.

“Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School deserves high praise for giving its students the foundational skills they need to compete and succeed in the 21st-century workplace and participate ethically in society at large," said Kelly Mendoza, vice president of education programs at Common Sense Education.

For the past four years, RFH has been using Common Sense Education's research-based digital citizenship resources, which were created in collaboration with researchers from Project Zero, led by Howard Gardner at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, all grounded in issues students and teachers face.

Learn more about the criteria to become recognized as a Common Sense School.