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VIDEO: Marie Izquierdo on Her Women’s Leadership Award (0:53)

Contenders for AASA’s Presidency Make Their Public Pitches for Elected Office

The race for the AASA presidency is being contested during the coming three weeks by a pair of veteran school system leaders in Arizona and New York, and both got a chance to put their best foot forward in front of fellow members at the 2nd General Session on Friday morning. The candidates for president-elect […]

Effie Jones Luncheon Call: ‘Let Us Be Dissatisfied’

Charles H. F. Davis III began his keynote address midday Friday at the annual Effie H. Jones Memorial Luncheon in an unusual manner. He led the attendees through a rousing rendition of what’s widely considered the “black national anthem” – James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Davis, an assistant professor of clinical education […]

VIDEO: Mark Adler on Channeling Grief (2:12)

After losing his teenage son Reid to a cyberbullying-related suicide, a Nebraska superintendent launched an initiative to improve kindness among youngsters through their schools.

Crisis and Its Aftermath Shared by Superintendents Who’ve Experienced It All

In Charlottesville, Va., when neo-Nazis and white supremacists arrived with machine guns and torchettes on a Saturday in August 2017, the result was the death of a young woman. It proved to be a defining moment in Rosa Atkins’ superintendency. As the leader of Charlottesville City Schools, Atkins told an AASA conference audience on Friday […]