Get
the Lead Out: Testing for and Removing Lead in School Water Systems (Advocacy)
The basic goal for this webinar was to educate school superintendents
from across the country on the following: The health risks of lead for
children; how lead gets into school drinking water and solutions to "Get
the Lead Out" and how schools can and are making progress in testing
for and removing lead.
Presenters: Larry Nyland, superintendent, Seattle Public Schools,
Wash.; Lauren Gambill, Pediatrician, UC Davis Health and John Rumpler,
clean water program director, Environment America, Mass. |
Financial
Transparency in ESSA (Advocacy)
 On this webinar, the Edunomics Lab provided an overview of the
financial transparency requirement in the Every Student Succeeds Act,
highlight lessons learned from states working towards meeting the
requirement, and provided a district lens for thinking about the
opportunities this new data can provide.
Presenters: Dr.
Marguerite Roza, Director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University
and Noelle Ellerson Ng, Associate Executive Director, Policy &
Advocacy, AASA, The School Superintendents Association.
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Policy
implications of the New President (Advocacy)
Two weeks into the new
administration, the AASA advocacy team provided an updated look at what
we know about the new year, the new Congress and the Trump
administration. The presentation includes updates on the nomination of
Betsy DeVos to head the U.S. Department of Education, Congressional
committee leadership and composition, the opportunity for education
policy in President Trump's first 100 days and the education cases being
considered by the Supreme Court.
Presenters: Noelle Ellerson
Ng, associate executive director, policy and advocacy, AASA; Sasha
Pudelski, assistant director, policy and advocacy, AASA; and Leslie
Finnan, senior policy analyst, AASA. |
Leveraging
ESSA’s Evidence Provisions to Help Every Student Succeed (Advocacy)
 Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), school districts will have
more freedom to fashion their own solutions to their most pressing
challenges. While they do so, ESSA sometimes requires, allows or
encourages districts to leverage evidence-based approaches. By making
smart use of evidence, data and evaluation, district leaders can not
only improve their students' outcomes but also increase the return on
education investments, even in times of increasingly limited public
funds.
During this webinar, Results for America's Evidence in Education Lab helped superintendents understand and explored the new opportunities
provided by ESSA's evidence provisions.
Presenters: Jeremy Ayers, Vice President of Policy,
Results for America; Dan Gordon, Senior Advisor, Results for America;
Brad McMillen, Assistant Superintendent for Data, Research and
Accountability, Wake County Public School System; and Matthew Lenard,
Director, Data Strategy & Analytics, Wake County Public School
System.
Moderator: Noelle Ellerson, Associate Executive Director, AASA, The School Superintendents Association.
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WEBINAR: More Than a Power
Lunch Webinar Series-Part I
 In 2016, AASA launched More Than a Power Lunch: Building Networks to Support and Advance Women in School Leadership Initiative
to help understand the impact of social barriers that women face in
ascending to the top leadership positions within our school systems and
to increase the number of women seeking and becoming superintendents.
In this webinar, the AASA National Women’s Leadership Consortium think
tank provided an update on the initiative, shared key findings and
discussed the implications of the work for women who are aspiring to top
leadership positions in school districts.
Presenters:
Amy Sichel, Superintendent, Abington School District (PA)
Tamu Lucero, Assistant Superintendent, Stamford Public School District (CT)
Jacinda Conboy, General Counsel, The New York State Council of School Superintendents (NY)
Patricia Neudecker (Moderator), Director of Administrative Leadership Programs and Assistant Professor, Alverno College (WI)
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