May 2024: School Administrator
Hiring and Retention
This issue examines how school districts can modify behavioral and operational practices to account for climate change.
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Building the Leadership Muscle to Improve Hiring and RetentionDon’t overlook the onboarding process for your certified and non-certified staff. Adopting a few core processes can strengthen the district’s personnel position.
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The Elusive Housing Search for Teacher ApplicantsAttracting qualified staff may come down to their ability to live in the school community. That’s driving some enterprising school districts to create affordable options.
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Advanced Degrees Among SuperintendentsInfographic on the changing percentage over the years of superintendents who hold a doctoral degree.
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Questioning Parenting StyleOur panel analyzes how a principal might tell a couple their parenting style may be influencing their child’s behavior.
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Stand on Legal Ground When Book Challenges ArriveAvoid getting caught off-guard by understanding Constitutional protections of school library holdings.
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Legal Risks of Your Schools’ Social PlatformsA few best practices from an education lawyer about managing the district’s social media accounts.
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Running Through the High School Finish LineAchieving the American Dream today makes the high school diploma an important marker but not the end point.
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What I’ve Learned as a State Turnaround Superintendent
Four things the author has discovered about introducing and sustaining practices that make a difference.
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Cultivating Our Future LeadershipShedding the monocle of traditional superintendent preparation.
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The Human Connections That EmpowerThe work of creating a culture of collaboration and shared learning can lead to students’ success.
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McCallum Brings New Passion for Public EducationThe association’s new associate executive director of strategy and communications seeks to elevate perceptions of public schooling.
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Standing Tall on Cultural RelevanceThe 2024 National Superintendent of the Year stands proud and tall on matters of cultural relevance in St. Paul, Minn.
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Profiling the Best
I don’t envy the task each year of the committee assigned the arduous job of selecting the National Superintendent of the Year. Once the pool of state superintendent of the year honorees is narrowed down to the final four, the selection panel spends a day evaluating the words and deeds of some of the finest organizational leaders in the education field.
It’s our custom perennially in School Administrator to publish a profile of each of those four finalists to capture some of the distinctive and defining aspects of each honored superintendent. That series of four begins this month with a piece about the 2024 winner, Joe Gothard, superintendent in St. Paul, Minn. — at least until the end of the school year.
Gothard, not long after receiving his award at the AASA national conference in February, accepted an offer for the superintendency in Madison, Wis., the community where he attended from kindergarten through high school and worked as an educator for 18 years. For many, the chance to return home to lead the public school enterprise is an alluring one. Gothard will begin in July.
His new opportunity confirms how highly valued the leadership skills of NSOY honorees are. In fact, three of the previous four National Superintendent of the Year winners assumed new positions in the aftermath of accepting their titles.
Beginning with June’s issue, you’ll encounter our profiles of the other three supremely talented finalists for the 2024 recognition: Martha Salazar-Zamora (Tomball, Texas), Kimberly Rizzo Saunders (Peterborough, N.H.) and Frederick Williams (Dublin, Ga.).
Jay P. Goldman
Editor, School Administrator
703-875-0745
jgoldman@aasa.org
@JPGoldman
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