February 2020: School Administrator
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Protecting Student Confidentiality When a School Crisis Hits
Education leaders must balance the need to communicate openly and honestly about a crisis situation while meeting their legal and ethical responsibility to protect students’ privacy.
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Cultural Responsiveness Starts With Responsive Leaders
A school principal models cultural responsiveness
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Harvesting the Garden of an Equity Audit
A joint district-university team in Syracuse, N.Y., sparks changes in access to advanced classes, athletics, drama and music extracurriculars
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The Will and Skill of a Board Becoming Culturally Responsive
A superintendent in Oregon is working intentionally to build a culturally responsive school board that’s committed to addressing issues of equity, diversity and inclusion.
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Safe Havens for LGBTQ Students
With the need to realign human and financial resources and deploy integrated supports, buy-in by the decision makers is a vital first measure
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Performance Evaluation
An AASA national survey finding on the contractual assessment of the superintendent.
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Split the Grading Difference
A dispute between a 9th grader and his English teacher who wants to “split the difference” over a paper either misplaced or never submitted.
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Knowhow in Your Pocket
A well-chosen podcast can be just the answer for a busy leader’s professional development.
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E-mail’s Entanglements When Doing Board Business
It’s become too easy for board members to use e-mail to substitute for more appropriate ways to do its work.
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Parental Tracking With GPS
Ought schools draw the line on devices affixed to young students with a “listen in” feature that allows parents to eavesdrop?
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Quality Versus Quantity of Time
Is an extension to the school day necessarily beneficial to students?
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My Mother’s Voice
Advice still applicable from this superintendent’s formative years: “You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.”
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Leading Through Conflict With Three Words
Two former superintendents promote these ideas to fledgling school leaders in their university training: react, reflect, reframe.
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Dealing in the Aftermath of Student Loss
Having a districtwide plan in readiness for a human tragedy.
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Three Forecasting Strategies for Staffing Needs
A Northern California district regularly adjusts staffing to address changes in student population and teacher absences.
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Equity Is Not a Cliché
Last fall, it happened again — the marginalization of our Brown Deer students while competing in an athletic contest sanctioned by the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association.
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An Up-Close View of Moroccan Schooling
A recap of an AASA international seminar in a predominantly Muslim nation in North Africa.
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Managing Growth Through Ears
AASA’s president-elect delights in the population growth in her midst.
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Courage on a Path of Recovery
I first met superintendent Lori Mueller last summer when she addressed a room full of school public relations professionals about her harrowing journey that she details in an article this month.
Mueller’s narrative is titled “Waking From a Nightmare in Baraboo,” and it describes her efforts as a school system leader to stabilize her school community in the immediate aftermath of a thoughtless decision by 50-plus high school seniors to pose with a Nazi salute
on the town’s courthouse steps while in their prom-day attire. The photo, captured by a student’s father, was discovered on a shared photo site about six months later and promptly was sent spiraling through the web of worldwide social
media.
Nothing in Mueller’s past necessarily prepared her for dealing with the anguish within her school community and the outrage expressed by the outside world. Yet her leadership, in combination with good-spirited others, have
set Baraboo, Wis., on a forward-looking path of healing and recovery. Now 15 months into that journey, Mueller would no doubt agree her school system is the stronger for enduring this test of character.
I hope our readers might share
their comments with Mueller and with us.
Jay P. Goldman
Editor, School Administrator
703-875-0745
jgoldman@aasa.org
@JPGoldman
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