AASA’s Incoming President Sees a Model at Home for Students as Producers of Their Own Learning
Public education must modernize, AASA President-Elect Shari Camhi said at the 3rd General Session of AASA’s national conference in Nashville on Saturday. The basic approach to the curriculum and sequential structure of secondary education can be traced to a meeting in 1892, she said. But antiquated approaches cannot adequately prepare students to be successful in […]
Learning Hubs, Born During the Demands of the Pandemic, Show Long-Term Promise for Their Range of Student Supports
During the pandemic, Guilford County Schools in Greensboro, N.C., provided a quick flexible response to the needs of its most vulnerable student populations. In a panel discussion Saturday at the AASA national conference in Nashville, Bree Dusseault, practitioner-in-residence at the Center on Reinventing Public Education at University of Washington-Bothell, discussed two districts that executed learning hubs successfully. […]
Final Keynoters Fullan and Edwards Want Educators to Practice ‘Spirit Work’ to Raise School Culture
Start with making sure students know they are loved. That was the advice of two authors who have studied high performing school districts. Mark Edwards and Michael Fullan, co-authors of the book Spirit Work and the Science of Collaboration, spoke at the 3rd General Session at AASA’s national conference on Saturday in Nashville. Edwards, a […]
Who’s Behind All the Conference News You Need to Know? One Hardy Band of Pros and Gung-ho Student Interns
The editor in charge sometimes refers to it as “the daily miracle.” He’s referring to the publication you’re looking at right now. For the several thousand AASA conference participants who’ve bounded about the Music City Center this week in Nashville, it’s known as Conference Daily Online, the newsy vehicle published by AASA that keeps everyone […]
AASA Scholarships Awarded to Five Top Graduate Students in Educational Administration
Five outstanding graduate students in educational administration have been selected to receive scholarships from AASA toward completion of their leadership studies. The awards were announced Saturday morning at the 3rd General Session of the 2022 AASA National Conference on Education in Nashville, Tenn. Each honoree receives a $2,500 scholarship given in honor of AASA’s former […]
Blog Post: An Intern’s Perspective of the AASA Conference and Today’s Superintendency
I am Ashley Chatmon, a digital media production major and media studies minor at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. Recently I was able to join AASA in person for the National Conference on Education in the Social Media Lounge. I’ve been working with AASA’s online technologies team since the summer of 2021. As a […]
Taking a Deep Dive into SEL, a Superintendents Panel Shares Ideas on How It Ought to Play Out in Schools
If the social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum for students, then the social curriculum must be part of the plan. Panelists representing a groundbreaking AASA initiative, known as Learning 2025, supported by the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation, made that point clear during a conference session Friday on social and emotional learning in K-12 […]
Seen & Heard Around the Conference: Stress Readings Among Attendees and a Trip Ticket South of the Border
A Stressful Bunch in the Crowds Maybe it was the overwhelming feelings of pressure back home that brought so many to Nashville this week. Preliminary results of a brief survey on superintendent stress promoted by AASA Executive Daniel Domenech at the 1st General Session showed more than three-quarters of respondents appear to be experiencing moderate […]
McNulty: Use the Tumult of the Pandemic to Find Better Ways of Educating Kids
Michael Conner and Ray McNulty want to revolutionize the way students learn after COVID-19. The duo encouraged AASA conference attendees Saturday morning to be future-focused and willing to create the change they see as necessary, instead of adapting to change imposed by others. “Adapting is not gonna help us,” said McNulty, president of the Successful […]
Ohio Superintendent Receives Save The Music Foundation Award at AASA Conference for her Support of the Arts
Elizabeth Lolli, superintendent of Dayton Public Schools in Dayton, Ohio, was named Saturday morning the 2022 recipient of the Save The Music Foundation’s 17th annual Administrator Award for Distinguished Support of Music Education. Because she was unable to attend the conference, the award was accepted on stage by Valarie Milligan, academic coordinator for music in […]