HOWELL – Joseph Isola, Superintendent of Schools for Howell Public School K-8, has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Tigger Stavola Foundation, the organization announced.
The Tigger Stavola Foundation is a charitable organization dedicated to fighting drug addiction, as well as spread awareness and save lives with drug prevention education.
Isola will be the 10th member on the volunteer board. The goal of the board is to help navigate the organization’s strategic direction and philanthropic activities.
Isola has been serving the Howell School District for 20 years. In 2004, he became the middle school principal and has served as superintendent since 2014. Throughout his tenure, he was named Monmouth County Superintendent of the Year in 2020 and the New Jersey Association for School Administrators Central Regional Superintendent of the Year in 2021.
In addition, he proposed and launched the Monmouth County Schools Partnership for Wellness – a collective of nearly 60 school districts focusing on social and emotional wellness and mental health for students, staff and communities.
“We are thrilled to welcome Superintendent Isola to our Advisory Board,” said Lisa Stavola, Executive Director of The Tigger Stavola Foundation. “His insight as both an educator and an advocate for mental health aligns perfectly with our efforts to end the stigma surrounding talking about addiction. His understanding that this disease does not discriminate will help save our children’s lives.”
“The Tigger Stavola Foundation is providing the resources educators need to engage with kids about the dangers of substance use,” Isola said. “I’m very motivated to help further its mission and excited to introduce LED by Tigger to area schools.”
Tigger offers a mobile engagement tool ‘LED’ (Leadership, Education, Drug Prevention). The tool helps kids in 8th through 12th grade make smarter, informed decisions in difficult situations. The program provides facts about vaping, marijuana, alcohol, tobacco and drugs.
