May 6, 2025

Dear Parents/Guardians,

As required by the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE), Arthur Stanlick Elementary School will administer the New Jersey Student Learning Assessment (NJSLA) for English/Language Arts (ELA), Mathematics on May 12-16 and the NJSLA Science for Grade 5 students on May 21 & 22, 2025.  Assessments will be delivered online via computer technology. Each testing unit will run between 60 and 90 minutes in length. 

The 2025 testing schedule is as follows:

The New Jersey Student Learning Assessments (NJSLA) are designed to provide parents/guardians with important information regarding their child’s progress toward meeting the New Jersey Student Learning Standards as well as the goal of being college and career ready. In addition, NJSLA data provides detailed diagnostic information about each student’s performance that educators, parents, and students may use to enhance foundation knowledge and student achievement.  

Our staff has been working to familiarize your child with the NJSLA testing platform. In order to better understand the test, I encourage you to log in to the New Jersey Student Learning Assessments Resource Center at (https://nj.mypearsonsupport.com/practice-tests/) to review sample questions. This will provide you with an understanding of the types of questions to which your child will be expected to respond.  

To support your child’s success and to comply with State testing procedures and security, we are requesting that you, as parents, help us in the following ways:

- Please ensure that your child arrives at school on time.  Students arriving late to school will report to a separate room until testing has concluded and will be scheduled for a NJSLA make-up session.

- Please make every effort to ensure that your child attends school on testing dates.  Students who are absent at any time during NJSLA week will be scheduled for a NJSLA make-up session. 

- Please remind your child that they are not permitted to have a cell phone or any other electronic device, which includes smart watches in the testing site.  Students who use any electronic device during testing will have that section of the test voided and appropriate disciplinary action will be taken as a result.

- Please remind your child that they are allowed to use their own headphones/earbuds during certain sections of the assessment.  If your child chooses to use their own headphones/earbuds they cannot be Bluetooth or wireless.

- Students may also have a book to read after they have finished the test each day.

- Finally, please ensure that your child has plenty of rest the evenings before each assessment and that your child has a good, healthy breakfast so that he/she may perform optimally.

Thank you for supporting your child during this educational assessment.  If you have any questions related to this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,

Dr. Daniel Papa

Dear Arthur Stanlick Elementary School Families,

I want to welcome you to the 2024-2025 school year! It is my sincere hope that you have been enjoying a summer filled with fun, relaxation, and rejuvenation with your friends and family. As the principal of Arthur Stanlick, I want to personally express my excitement for the new school year and I look forward to welcoming back our remarkable students. It is a great honor to lead an exceptional staff to inspire students to achieve success in all of their academic and extracurricular pursuits over the course of the school year. 

As we begin to plan for the new academic school year, I would like to take this opportunity to communicate our shared vision for the 24-25 SY. We will equip our students with growth mindset strategies to increase student self-confidence in their academic performance in the classroom as well as their behavioral choices. We will focus on further enhancing student engagement through multi-tiered systems of support to educate the whole child. We will analyze student performance data to inform instructional practice and lesson planning with a focus on goal-setting & progress monitoring. Additionally, we are committed to supporting the social and emotional well-being of all of our students. To accomplish this objective, our staff will continue implementing our character education program, Purpose Full People. Our staff will facilitate connections between SEL & STEM to inspire student collaboration to overcome challenges during a weekly DREAM Period (DRop Everything And Make).

Our students have the distinct privilege of learning from a deeply passionate and caring staff who will engage learning through the integration of dynamic and research-based instructional strategies, meaningful technology, and authentic experiences to enhance their comprehension and understanding of the knowledge and skills outlined in the district curricula. Our dedicated staff is committed to providing the highest quality education and support for each student. Your child’s time at Arthur Stanlick Elementary School will be filled with numerous opportunities to explore various subjects, participate in engaging activities, and build lasting friendships.

If you have not done so already, please follow us on Twitter and Instagram @AStanlickSchool.

I am earnestly looking forward to an outstanding 24-25 school year.

Dr. Papa & The Arthur Stanlick Elementary School Staff

@AStanlickSchool -

Dr. Daniel Papa - Principal

  Mrs. Lisa Kennedy - Principal's Secretary

Mrs. Donna Nimmo -  Secretary

  Miss Gina Santini - School Counselor/Anti-Bullying Specialist

Ms. Amy Yermal - School Counselor

  Mrs. Cassie Carbone - Nurse, X5115

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BRAVO STUDENTS OF THE MONTH 24-25 SY

COMING SOON!