August 2016: School Administrator
Benchmarking moves across the grades and postsecondary progress
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Additional Articles
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Dual Enrollment: A Tool to Raise College Preparedness
Beginning this fall, all 19 high schools in the District of Columbia Public Schools will have at least one college partner where students can pursue dual enrollment credit.
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KIPP’s Follow-Through of Graduates
Transitioning students from high school to college is a major mission for the KIPP charter schools network.
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9th-Grade Support Team Eases Transition
A high school’s faculty developed a team dedicated to support the entering freshmen deemed most at-risk of failure using the the states' early warning indicator system
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Counseling Leadership in College Readiness
The author studied how a school district's socioeconomic profile affects the way counseling leadership addresses college admissions work with students and families.
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Resisting Test-Based Grade Retention
The authors discovered how educators in a Georgia public school quietly undermined a state policy's harmful effects on students.
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Starting Transitions EarlyA series of outreach efforts designed by Washington's Highline Public Schools enables the system to reach the majority of those moving into kindergarten.
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Marital StatusDifferences exist between men and women in the profession.
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The Private Post-Prom AffairA teacher hosts a party for her son and friends, but then alcohol turns up. Does the educator have a duty to report this to someone in administration?
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Ban the Boy’s Braid? A Court on GroomingThe law’s stance on students’ religious beliefs and the wearing of religious garb or symbols at school. May a school district policy set standards?
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Cohesion on an Ever-Changing School Board
How do you maintain constancy of purpose in the face of turnover in board membership?
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The Culture of Disrespect
Without appropriate teaching at home, students don't know what it means to be respectful when they enter school, according to the author of The Collapse of Parenting.
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Modern Loyalty
A superintendent's alternative view of what workplace loyalty means as it relates to ambitious K-12 educators seeking new challenges.
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Rallying the Community Behind Its SchoolsWe must shift the context of the current dialogue about public education and accountability.
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How Do You Disagree With Personalized Attention?Schools that are part of AASA’s personalized learning cohort differ radically from the majority of public schools today.
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Sowing Results From Joint LaborsThe superintendent in Hoke County, N.C., learned a lot from working on a family farm.
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Editor's Note
A Time to Refresh
The start of each new school year in August or September marks a time of renewal, when educators apply restored vigor and new ideas to their work in K-12 education. Along the same lines, the fall season gives us a chance to introduce a few new tricks to School Administrator.
First, beginning in September, we will launch a pair of monthly columns. The first, titled Social Media, will explore the practical considerations involving the superintendent’s personal use of Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs, et al., and the oversight of student and staff use of personal technology. It’s fertile ground for exploring some of the wildly disruptive dynamics playing out in schools right now.
The second addition is a column called Inside AASA, where we will introduce readers to AASA staff members alongside the initiatives they manage in service to members.
Meanwhile, I want to recognize two new panelists on our monthly Ethical Educator column. With this issue, we welcome Sarah Jerome, who served as AASA president in 2007-08, and Maggie Lopez, who spent 37 years serving schools in Colorado, the last three as superintendent in Pueblo. They are filling the analyst berths held capably during the past year or longer by Kelly Henson and Sarah Mackenzie, whom we thank for their thoughtful service.
We also are expecting to add some short videos related to magazine content to the mix. More about that is forthcoming.
Jay P. Goldman
Editor, School Administrator
703-875-0745
jgoldman@aasa.org
@JPGoldman
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