January 2022: School Administrator
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Developing Homegrown TalentEight rural school districts are using career-connected learning to contribute to the local communities’ workforce
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Distinct Approaches to Building Hometown Talent
A glimpse into three Hometown Talent Initiative communities as they built programs, opportunities and relationships based on the unique strengths, needs and assets of their respective area.
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What’s ‘Evidence-Based’ When It Comes to Practice?Guidance to ensure you’re buying more than empty phrases to undo long-standing educational inequities
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Tenure on the JobHow long superintendents last in the role.
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A Club Adviser’s PerkOur panel examines a teacher’s use of school field trips and rewards program earnings.
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Crowdfunding’s Big Implications for SchoolsThe ramifications of educators using online fundraising to support school programs.
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The Moment I Knew I Needed HelpGetting professional support to work through the intensified stresses of the superintendency.
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Life Lessons From Tough Officiating CallsThe wisdom a superintendent gleaned from his earlier days as a high school basketball referee.
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Why We Must Support Voice in Student PublicationsWhy this Virginia superintendent prioritized the fight for protecting student voice through student publications.
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Mentoring Matters, Even From a Guido
A personal account from a former superintendent about an unlikely mentor who helped him find his future.
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Our Need for Smaller PlatesOne superintendent’s musings on managing expectations when the workload can be exhausting.
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Adopting the Right MindsetNavigating difficult times by accepting our new reality.
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Expanded Career Prep Must Begin Before GraduationAASA works to focus attention on students’ workplace readiness alongside college preparation.
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Saying ‘Yes’ to PossibilitiesThe superintendent in Sioux Falls, S.D., maintains a lookout for opportunities to serve.
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Editor's Note
Work-Based Learning
With only about one-third of Americans attaining a four-year college degree, Noel Ginsburg delivers a resonating point in his article “The Modern Youth Apprenticeship”: “[I]f
the predominant narrative in America is to be believed, a college degree seems to be the only dignified path to a career, leaving most of our young people with limited prospects and our industries with a work-force shortage.”
That
message undergirds the theme-related articles about work-based learning in this month’s issue. Ginsburg is the CEO of Career-Wise Colorado, which manages some appealing options for students in high-growth, high-pay fields such as informational
technology and business operations.
Other articles examine a few school districts that are making modern youth apprenticeships readily available to high schoolers; the Hometown Talent Initiative that promotes career connectedness
in small, rural districts in Colorado; and the model Center for Career Discovery that superintendent David Schuler has built in his suburban Chicago school district.
The viable pathways these programs offer to students ought
to be more widely available. As Ginsburg, a manufacturing executive, puts it: “Youth apprenticeship is a meaningful education with a clear path to career and social mobility. Youth apprenticeship is scalable.”
Jay P. Goldman
Editor, School Administrator
703-875-0745
jgoldman@aasa.org
@JPGoldman
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