Mr. Spadafino’s students are coding interactive greeting cards in celebration of CS week. Code.org Jim Montesano Robert Sanchez #CompSciNJ #CelebratingProgress

Congratulations to Mr. Allen! Hackensack students are blessed to have you as their teacher!

Ms. Schlogl’s AP CS Principles students work “unplugged” on a program that prints a message encoded using a Caesar cipher. Robert Sanchez Jim Montesano #CompSciNJ #CelebratingProgress

Ms. Perez’s students are working with proportional relationships in VRG on VNPS. Their brilliance is on display as they collaborate on a thinking task. Illustrative Mathematics #thinkingclassrooms Hackensack Middle School

Happy Pi Day! Students in Ms. Livelli and Mr. Colella's classes celebrated Pi Day by engaging in brain puzzles.

In Ms. Betances' class, we are using different strategies to factor trinomials with leading coefficients that are not 1.

Students in Ms. DosAnjos' class are discussing how to solve projectile motion problems using parametric equations. Did the outfielder catch the ball? We will find out! Robert Sanchez Andrea Oates-Parchment Jim Montesano

Last night, the HHS NHS held their induction ceremony. Congratulations to all the new 2023 NHS inductees! Robert Sanchez Andrea Oates-Parchment Jim Montesano Joe Brunacki

Students in Ms. Darling's class are strategizing different ways they can use partial products to multiply multi-digit whole numbers. Robert Sanchez Andrea Oates-Parchment Hackensack Middle School Illustrative Mathematics

Students in Ms. Carucci's class are solving multi-digit multiplication problems. Students are using number cubes and strategies to create their expressions in order to have the best chance of finding the greatest product. Robert Sanchez Andrea Oates-Parchment Hackensack Middle School

HMS teachers focused on the importance of planning with learning goals, synthesis pieces, and how to develop students’ conceptions in mind. Great discussions about instructional routines and ways to continue supporting and engaging our students! Hackensack Middle School

Mr. Gaccione's students are tackling math tasks using vertical non-permanent surfaces. They were challenged with evaluating expressions with integers, representing contexts using equations, and writing and solving an equation from a description. Hackensack Middle School

HHS Math teachers reflecting on and discussing strategies they want to try from the book "Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics". Jim Montesano Robert Sanchez Andrea Oates-Parchment

Students in Mr. Brkovic and Mr. Ragone's class are working together to figure out who will win the race by applying the Pythagorean Theorem. Robert Sanchez Andrea Oates-Parchment Hackensack Middle School

Thank you to all our teachers! You go above and beyond every single day. We are grateful for your dedication and all that you do for our students. Jim Montesano Hackensack Middle School

Ms. Spielberger's AP Macroeconomic students doing a socratic seminar on explaining the causes of the recent bank failure and how the government decided to fix the failure. Robert Sanchez Andrea Oates-Parchment Jim Montesano

6th grade students in Mrs. Keenan's class use @openmiddlemath tasks in order to create their own equivalent ratios #PridePassionPurpose Robert Kaplinsky

Students were working on algebraic proofs today. Not only did they have to figure out the statements and reasons, but they had to explain their thinking to Ms. Hampson and Ms. Ensuncho before tackling the next proof. Robert Sanchez Andrea Oates-Parchment Jim Montesano

HHS math teachers designed open questions and collaborated on different types of thinking tasks to use in their classes during our department meeting today. Robert Sanchez Andrea Oates-Parchment Jim Montesano #buildingthinkingclassrooms

Congratulations to our exceptional Hackensack High School students who have been accepted into the FDU Gildart Haase Python Scholars Program! Enjoy this exciting opportunity into the world of coding and innovation. Andrea Oates-Parchment Jim Montesano