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RFH Wins Honor as ‘Common Sense’ School

It’s a common sense win.

Common Sense, the national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping kids and families thrive in a world of media and technology, has again recognized Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) as a Common Sense School.

“We’re honored to be recognized as a Common Sense School,” RFH Superintendent Darren Groh said. “By preparing our students to use technology safely and responsibly, we are providing them an opportunity to build lifelong habits to help them succeed in a tech-driven world.”

Since 2019, RFH has demonstrated its commitment to taking a whole-community approach to preparing its students to think critically and use technology responsibly to learn, create, and participate while teaching them to navigate online hazards, such as plagiarism, loss of privacy, and cyberbullying.

This recognition acknowledges RFH’s commitment to creating a culture of digital citizenship.

“We applaud the faculty and staff of Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School for embracing digital citizenship as an important part of their students’ education,” said Kelly Mendoza, vice president of education programs at Common Sense Education. “Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School deserves high praise for giving its students the foundational skills they need to compete and succeed in the 21st-century workplace and participate
ethically in society at large.”

For the past four years, RFH has been using Common Sense Education‘s digital citizenship resources. Those resources were created in collaboration with researchers from Project Zero, led by Howard Gardner at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and are grounded in the real issues students and teachers face in the digital world.

The resources teach students, educators, and parents tangible skills related to internet safety, protecting online reputations and personal privacy, media balance, managing online relationships, and media literacy. 

The free K–12 curricula is used in classrooms across all 50 states, in more than 80,000 schools by more than 1,000,000 educators.

To learn more about the criteria RFH met to become recognized as a Common Sense School, click here.

— Edited press release from RFH