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Thank-you for Your Support of the 2009 Gala.

USREF Award For Educational Excellence

2009 Award Winner, Mike Blake. The USREF bestows an award on a deserving community member each year for his or her commitment to the children in Upper Saddle River.  Recipients must be residents of Upper Saddle River and served as volunteers, positive role models and mentors.

Our Mission

The USREF, founded in 2003, is a non-profit community supported organization. Our mission is to fund exceptional and extraordinary educational and cultural programs for the students in grades Kindergarten through eighth in Upper Saddle River.

USREF funded Cavallini Television Studio was recently featured in The Record newspaper and on its website: northjersey.com " School's TV Studio Has Many Benefits"  Read the article

Television Studio to be "Up and Running" at Cavallini School Thanks to Grant from Upper Saddle River Education Foundation

January 5, 2008 – The Upper Saddle River Educational Foundation (USREF) announced at the December 3rd, 2007 Board of Education meeting that it is awarding approximately $50,000 to fund exceptional educational and cultural programs in the Reynolds, Bogert and Cavallini Schools.. ...Read more

River Day

May 12, 2007- 165 sixth graders from Cavallini Middle School in Upper Saddle River walked down to the banks of the Saddle River and learned how to identify a healthy waterway and what to do to keep it that way.  According to Bill Yeomans, chair of the Borough's Environmental Committee, the full-day program was an offshoot of the Borough's initiative to monitor the section of river that flows through its borders. ...Read more

The Learning Habitat The Learning Habitat is located opposite the Travers Multi-Purpose Room at Bogert and Reynolds schools and was the initial USREF project. This outdoor "living classroom" is much more than a beautiful sanctuary. It offers students in grades Kindergarten through fifth a chance to conduct hands-on activities in subjects including science, language arts, social studies, math and art. A team of teachers, the district's curriculum coordinator and an outside science consultant collaborated with parents to design the space. Take a moment to catch students digging for earthworms, graphing maps with compasses or monitoring the weather. Last year the students were thrilled when baby ducklings were born right in the Habitat. The USREF has an ongoing commitment to maintaining and enhancing the Habitat in coming years. ...Read more

SMARTBoardsJanuary 2, 2007 - The Upper Saddle River Educational Foundation (USREF) has funded a number of SMART Boards throughout the Kindergarten through eighth grade district. As Dr. Joyce Snider, superintendent, explains, "Technology continues to provide schools with a wide array of tools to assist in the instructional process.  The new Smart Boards are an interactive tool that combines the power of the computer, the display of a blackboard, and the enhancements of graphics in a way that makes learning more exciting, more efficient, and more substantive." ...Read more

 

 

 

 
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