School boards are now spending more time on these 5 topics
Is your school board focused on the same topics that are of growing concern at their counterparts’ meetings in other districts and states?
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Few are talking about superintendent mental health. Leaders want that to change
In an era of high stress and turnover at the top, several leaders are sharing their strategies for remaining energized and in touch with the reasons they became educators.
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Pace of new superintendent hiring is not slowing down
Dayton and Great Falls public schools promote from within while at least three superintendents have found new homes in the past week.
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School choice: How to co-opt the concept and keep it within your district
Superintendent Roger Freeman has coopted the school choice concept within his K-8 district by replacing traditional attendance zones with a series of career-focused academies.
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Here are the administrators who just landed new superintendent posts
Three urban districts choose new leaders as several small school systems are giving administrators their first opportunity to serve as superintendent.
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How to build schools: Help your community tell its story
“We worked on creating the story with the people of the community—it’s their story. Community members wrote their own story of what they wanted their community to look like for their children,” Superintendent Jennifer Lowery says.
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How one fearless superintendent is elevating education outside her district
Superintendent Kimberly Rizzo Saunders is not sitting idly by while New Hampshire remains at the bottom of the list for per-pupil funding.
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More than a dozen districts just selected new superintendents
The Boise School District in Idaho has promoted Deputy Superintendent Lisa Roberts to serve as the district’s first female leader. District elsewhere are also giving administrators their first shots at the superintendency.
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Why this ‘Superintendent to Watch’ prioritizes the ‘individual student’
Meet Philip Brown, superintendent at the Jackson County School System in Georgia, who was recently named one of the NSPRA’s 25 “Superintendents to Watch.”
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How to hit the bullseye of leadership between pressure, stress, self-management and self-care
Stress often arises when factors are beyond our control. Pressure resides in the realm where our skills and actions can impact the result. Understanding this difference is the first step in showing up as your “best self” in leadership roles.
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