May 2019: School Administrator
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Professional Development for Encouraging Next Generation AssessmentsEngage students by allowing them to explore their passions while also covering state-required content
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Assessing Performance in a Competency SystemDistrict educators work together to craft statewide student-centered assessments that reduce standardized testing
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The Importance of Testing as a Learning StrategyTo make learning stick, students must be challenged to recall and apply their knowledge — and quizzes are a good tool for accomplishing that
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Equitable Grading: Tales of Three DistrictsHow can educators more equitably and accurately report student achievement?
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What's Inequitable About Averaging Performance?
You’re teaching a unit on a specific skill, and during the unit, one student earns the following sequence of scores on graded assessments: 64, 70, 78, 90, 98. What grade should the student receive for that unit?
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Salaries by Gender and EnrollmentAASA’s latest survey found little pay difference between men and women.
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Witness for Dubious CharacterHow does the ethics panel view a superintendent whose neighbor asks him to be a character witness before court sentencing on a felony involving a young child?
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Branding Alongside a Communication ProIf the superintendent is the communicator-in-chief, then the director of communications functions as the chief of staff, listening and analyzing and contributing to engagement and support.
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Maximizing Your E-rate Dollars
We are working with AASA to raise awareness about maximizing schools’ access to E-rate funds
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Communicating Early, Often and Deliberately
Though student success remains the highest priority, a superintendent’s work with the board paves the path for those outcomes.
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‘Mommy, There's the Star Man’
One small gesture was the unifier they needed
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A Student Asks, ‘Can You Help Me?’
A superintendent reflects on some events in leadership in education
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Diagnosing SuccessIN DECEMBER, I was a patient in the hospital emergency room triage .
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Engaging in a Not-So-Secret RecipeAdmittedly time-consuming, maximizing hours with all community segments has a significant payoff down the line.
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Military Bearing for a National HonoreeThe 2019 National Superintendent of the Year spent the first 20 years of his working life as an Army officer before moving into schooling.
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Editor's Note
Front-line Observer of 'What School Can Be'
TED DINTERSMITH spent two decades as a venture capitalist and a half dozen years running a business that contributed to the digital revolution. But it was his post-business desire to learn about public education that has led to some prominence now as a public advocate for education practices that contribute to creativity, innovation and purpose. And to him, that means adopting authentic measures of student performance.
In an interview, you’ll learn about Dintersmith’s school year visiting schools in every state, which then led to a co-authored book with Tony Wagner, a well-received film documentary (“Most Likely to Succeed”) and a 2018 book What School Can Be.
A product of public schools himself, Dintersmith felt compelled to share what he observed. “It’s easy today to dwell on the negative,” he says, “but I was blown away by the positive things going on in U.S. schools.”
In several other articles in this issue, you’ll learn about some of the ground-level efforts to see better forms of assessment take shape in schools.
Jay P. Goldman
Editor, School Administrator
703-875-0745
jgoldman@aasa.org
@JPGoldman
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