OUR MISSION

As part of our 2025-26 Annual Appeal , the Montclair Fund for Educational Excellence is asking members of our community to reflect on how the Montclair Public Schools helped shape the people they've become. We asked them to complete this sentence: "Montclair makes us ____.” Check out the below spotlights, and donate to ensure that ALL Montclair students have a strong foundation from which to grow. Montclair Makes Us Think! "Montclair helped shape how I see the world. As a st

An innovative project that unites architecture, printmaking, and civics is among the first educator grants awarded by the Montclair Fund for Educational Excellence for the 2025-26 school year. The interdisciplinary project, dreamed up by Buzz Aldrin Middle School art teacher Deborah Guzman Meyer , in collaboration with social studies teacher Jessica Eden-Mintz , will help more than 120 middle school students engage deeply with the Bill of Rights and the Amendments to the U.S

Hillside elementary school science teacher Susan Bartol first saw “ Observe r” at a national convention for science educators in Philadelphia last year.   The film focuses on the power of observation, how scientists and artists look differently at the world, and how paying attention can spark discovery and reframe knowledge and understanding. “To be an observer, you must find your portal into the wonders of the world. There is a universe everywhere you turn,” the film's trail