Next date: Monday, March 20, 2023

Profile of Your Graduate:

Leading the Vision

Join Dr. Matthew J. Murphy and Renee Janowicz, APR

for the next professional learning and consultative opportunity

offered through the TMI Education Strategic Visioning and Planning Division.

Next Opportunity: Monday, March 20, 2023 from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the NJPSA/FEA Conference Center (12 Centre Drive, Monroe Township, NJ). Click here to register!

The Profile of Your Graduate can serve as your school district's "North Star" for system transformation. It can provide strategic direction for the redesign of the overall educational experience for students -- teaching, learning, curriculum, assessment and evaluation.

A shared organizational vision and mission that is driven by the Profile of Your Graduate will reinvigorate and re-engage your students, educators, and community stakeholders.

Join Dr. Matthew J. Murphy, a 33-year educator with proven, innovation-based leadership experience, as he:

Shares his leadership experience in developing the Profile of a Ramsey Graduate for the Bergen County school district that become the first in New Jersey to design and implement this vision-to-reality approach.
Demonstrates how the Profile of Your Graduate can drive all aspects of you district's strategic vision and planning: curriculum revision, professional development, assessment practices, branding, budget and more.
Offers practical, foundational guidance to help you get started on a profile process that will be customized for and by your community.

Co-presenting is Renee Janowicz, APR, a Vice President at New Jersey's premier school communications firm: Laura Bishop Communications. She will:

Relate the importance of branding for public schools.
Suggest ways to better communicate with and educate the various stakeholders in your community.
Share examples of how modern school communications can be intentional and purposeful rather than incidental and fluffy.

Dr. Matthew J. Murphy

Dr. Matthew J. Murphy proudly served as the Superintendent of the K-12 Ramsey School District from 2012 to 2022.

Renee Janowicz, APR

Ms. Janowicz was a K-12 and college-level education reporter for a daily newspaper before shifting into the field of public relations.

Dr. Murphy brought broad educational experience to the role, having worked as a teacher, building-based technology coordinator, vice principal, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, director of elementary education, and superintendent of a K-8 district.

Heis an adjunct professor at Ramapo College, where he teaches in the Educational Leadership program that equips prospective educators and administrators with essential content knowledge and skills for contemporary leadership in curriculum and supervision.

Ms. Janowicz's strong background in media relations, education issues, and award-winning writing made for an easy transition from journalism to PR.

She leads the Laura Bishop Communications practice area of communications campaigns for school bond referenda. She continued working with the Ramsey School District after a 2018 bond vote and 2019 budget vote, and helped strategically guide the district's weaving of its Profile of a Ramsey Graduate into well recognized branding. She is Accredited in Public Relations.

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