May 2022: School Administrator
Civics Education
This issue examines the need for K-12 students to become educated citizens in the real and digital worlds.
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Additional Articles
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Teaching Fact From FictionAn advocate for news literacy sees these foundational skills embedded in all corners of the curriculum, an essential piece of a civics education for preserving democracy
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Intellectual Virtues and the Formation of Good CitizensDrawing on Project Zero research, a middle school in Long Beach, Calif., explores the character strengths that support democracy
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Rethinking What Districts’ Digital Citizenship Should BeShaping a set of living practices for employees and students through policies, partnerships and professional learning
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Declining AgeThe superintendency is growing younger over the past decade.
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Disqualification Over a Misogynistic MemeWhat to do when a board member discovers that a top contender for the superintendent vacancy had posted an offensive image on social media a few years back?
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Alternatives to the Superintendency
Disrupting traditional structures for school system leadership face legislative limits.
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Preventing Board Members’ Attempted End RunsBeing on the same team with your board and staff means resisting entreaties by individual board representatives.
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Listening to Parent Voices About SELBetter ways to connect with parents and community about attending to students’ social and emotional learning.
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Equity Thoughts From a Diversity TrainerA case for using terms other than “equity” to address issues of race, racism and inequity.
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Mapping the Route to Better Professional LearningFour strategies for measuring return on investment from staff development activities.
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An Educated CitizenryEncouraging and modeling civic engagement for this generation’s young people.
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Truth Decay in a Period of DivisivenessWorking in students’ best interests amidst flourishing misinformation on equity and student support.
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Defining a Better Future in the Navajo WayThe superintendent in Chinle, Ariz., defines better futures the Navajo way.
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Editor's Note
Media Literacy Among Civics
As a journalism educator on the collegiate level for quite a few years, I’ve harbored concerns about the capacity of my students, who should be skilled in differentiating fact from fiction, to ferret out misinformation whenever they encounter it. A good journalist, I tell these fledgling editors, ought to be skeptical by nature.
The start of skill building in media literacy rightfully begins in K-12 education. That’s one of the emphases you’ll find in this month’s issue, devoted to civics education and related topics. Joel Breakstone of the Stanford History Education Group describes a program for teaching online reasoning across the curriculum, while Charles Salter, earlier a superintendent now running the News Literacy Project, makes a strong case for the same.
Our attention to media literacy among students fits naturally amidst wider attention to civic skills. Of note, Pedro Noguera and Rick Hess, usually at odds ideologically on any number of issues, find common ground on what ought to constitute civics instruction. We’re also publishing a rather unusual judicial order rendered by a federal judge in Rhode Island in which he lays out the vital need for civics education among students for the survival of our democracy.
Plenty of good reading, and we invite you to share your feedback with us.
Jay P. Goldman
Editor, School Administrator
703-875-0745
jgoldman@aasa.org
@JPGoldman
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