2006-07 Points of Pride

• The Washington Township High School's anti-bullying initiatives, including the C.O.W. ("Changing Our World") Project, received the 2007 Aaron Flanzbaum 21st Century Democratic Heritage Award from the New Jersey Association of School Administrators and the Anti-Defamation League.
  
  
• Washington Township High School earned designation as a Just for the Kids-New Jersey Benchmark School, 2006, by the Business Coalition for Educational Excellence based on its students' performance on New Jersey's standardized assessments.
  
  
• Orchard Valley Middle School was selected as the recipient of the Ninth Annual Herman and Marie James Award from the Rowan University College of Education. The award annually recognizes a school for "creating an excellent and exciting educational environment."
  
  
• Orchard Valley Middle School received the very competitive HP Technology for Teaching Grant worth more than $31,000 for a project entitled, "The Mystery of Genetics."
  
  
• Washington Township Public Schools' elementary initiative "Student Farmers Grow and Give," a community collaborative with Duffield's Farm Market, was selected to represent New Jersey in the pool of contenders for the National Civic Star Award.