Resources for School Board Recognition Month 2025
New Jersey’s local boards of education play an essential role in students’ lives. Board members oversee 580 school districts which, in turn, operate 2,500 public schools and provide educational services to nearly 1.4 million children. They set the policies for schools and make important decisions affecting curriculum, financing, and staffing.
January is the annual School Board Recognition Month in New Jersey, a time to raise public awareness of the roles and responsibilities of local boards of education and to thank your community’s school board members for their efforts.
The New Jersey School Boards Association has prepared the items linked below to help public bodies, organizations and local school districts recognize the role of the local board of education and the contributions of their communities’ school board members.
Feel free to use your own ideas to celebrate School Board Recognition Month and contact us to let us know about them.
For individual school board members:
Details Coming Soon – ‘School Board Member Spotlight’ – School board members will be highlighted in School Board Notes, the weekly electronic newsletter of the New Jersey School Boards Association, in the school board member spotlight feature in honor of School Board Recognition Month. Learn more (pending).
To download the images below to your computer, click the link, then right-click the image and select save as.
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For local school districts:
- Sample Resolution 2025
- Certificate of Appreciation 2025
- Sample Press Release 2025
- “Thank you, school board members,” image