August 2019: School Administrator
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Additional Articles
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Building Parent CapacityA Massachusetts district sees authentic relationships as the starting point for supported student learning
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How Schools Give Heart to Their CommunitiesWhat Deb Fallows learned about the essential place of public education during her cross-country visits
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Ten Findings for School Leaders From Our TownsOur Towns provides insight into the good news that’s often missing in traditional media formats
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Strategies for Leading for Equity
To address the challenges in our schools, we took intentional steps to act on the inequities we found. These steps can be replicated in every organization.
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Boise's Adaptive Approach to Community Schools
Like many urban communities, Boise, Idaho, is challenged to meet the needs of a growing student population that struggles with the effects of poverty.
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Expanding Home Visits to Washoe County FamiliesVisits to homes are scheduled in advance, are voluntary for teachers and families, and focus on the family’s hopes and dreams for their child’s education.
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Paid Membership DuesTracking over time school districts covering annual dues in professional organizations.
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Profiting Off ExcessMay a staff member retain PCs being disposed of by his district for classroom backup and donation to charity?
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Better Connecting With StudentsA simple icebreaker exercise turned into students' demands for a "selfie with the super."
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Whom on Staff to Invite to Board Meetings?
Who on your leadership team ought to be present to field board members’ likely questions?
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Setting Rules for Teacher-Student Texting?Can you balance the benefits of teacher accessibility and safe behavior for students?
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Five Steps Up the Instructional Leader Ladder
Over my 48-year career in education, I have observed this professional relationship grow through five steps
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The Problem With Big Ideas
Dealing effectively with a big idea in education requires communication, substance, attention to small details and commitment.
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Keeping Students Front and CenterONE OF AASA'S most important leadership roles is that of advocacy — working collaboratively with all stakeholders to positively influence educational policy grounded in research and best practice.
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Pipeline Program Prepares PrincipalsThe Wallace Foundation shares important insights on building up bench strength in school administration.
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Gary Marx: An Influential Force on AASA and Its EditorDuring his two decades overseeing AASA’s public communications, Gary Marx raised the organization’s profile markedly.
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Ensuring Opportunity for 106,000 ChildrenA superintendent’s passionate dealings with his state’s high-stakes orientation.
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Editor's Note
Courage to Converse and Act
It takes a good deal of courage to take on the entrenched forces in K-12 education that stymie progress, especially when it comes to advancing the cause of equity among students. That is one reason why we found considerable appeal in carrying the article by Roberto Padilla in this issue.
Padilla is a product of the Newburgh, N.Y., Enlarged City School District that he now leads as superintendent. His account shares the campaign he is waging to overhaul practices persisting for years that limited student learning opportunities and to remedy conditions that fuel the school-to-prison pipeline. (Education Week documented his work earlier this year when honoring him as a Leader to Learn From.)
In his magazine piece, Padilla lays out, succinctly, a few of the intentional steps he has tried to take as leader of the 12,000-student district. The underlying message he conveys is this: Engaging fellow educators in these hard conversations is only the first step. Progressive actions must follow.
Jay P. Goldman
Editor, School Administrator
703-875-0745
jgoldman@aasa.org
@JPGoldman
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