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Looking Back and Looking Forward

A Word of Thanks to the NJPSA Team

Even on its hardest days, education is a joyful field, of educational leadership. From aspiring through retiring
replete with promise, hope, and the knowledge that membership services to immediate legal support, from
potential is unlimited. Each child entrusted to us is a gift, advocacy on legislation and administrative code to contract
and each moment of discovery brought to fruition by a negotiations and field services, NJPSA has provided the
caring educator lets that child’s heart beat with the words, services that allow educational leaders to do their best work
“I can. I will. I must.” with the fortitude that comes from knowing they are not alone.

In the four decades that have passed since the New Jersey Through the Foundation for Educational Administration (FEA),
Principals and Supervisors Association came to be as the NJPSA has been the premier provider of professional learning
PK-12 organization that exists today, the landscape of for educational leaders in the state, helping to shape the
education has changed both subtly and drastically, most future of New Jersey education. With a deeply held belief
extremely from the impact of COVID-19. NJPSA has been in equity, access, and opportunity for all students and with
at the center, helping school leaders navigate all of these the knowledge that professional learning must be deep,
changes with forethought and efficacy, and has served as a meaningful, and, most importantly, applicable in the real world
nexus point for the professional support needed to allow New of public schools, NJPSA/FEA has been the go-to resource for
Jersey’s principals, assistant and vice principals, supervisors, school leaders for legal training, pedagogical best practices,
and directors to do their work confidently, bolstered by an and surviving the unimaginable during an actual pandemic.
association that truly understands and has lived the nuances

KAREN BINGERT

Executive Director 2021 to Present