Marshall Memo Editor Shares Ideas for Improving Teaching and Teacher Feedback
Hollywood feeds the myth that great teachers are born, not made. Think “Stand and Deliver,” the story of math teacher Jaimie Escalante, whose students succeeded. Or “The Freedom Writers,” about the inspirational English teacher Hilary Swank who encouraged students to express themselves through writing.
VIDEO: Thought Leader Robert Balfanz on Redesigning High Schools (2:28)
Robert Balfanz, a professor of education at Johns Hopkins University, led a Thought Leader session Thursday at AASA’s national conference on redesigning high schools that meet needs of the 21st century.
Wallace Foundation Shares Strategies for Sustaining a Pipeline for Well-Prepared Principals
Sustaining a principal pipeline helps to cultivate a steady supply of well-prepared and well-supported new principals for schools, according to the newly published study report from The Wallace Foundation and Policy Studies Associates.
Why Use Social Media In Your District? #TellYourStory!
The message was clear to those sitting in the conference audience: If you’re not using social media to tell your story, then someone else surely is — and that story may paint a very different picture of your schools.
Virginia Beach Leader Uses Local Panel to Bolster Its Schools’ Security
On the one-year anniversary of the tragic mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., superintendents gathered at an AASA conference session Thursday morning on “Rethinking School Safety and Successfully Leveraging Community Experts for Change.”
Two-Decade Army Vet Crowned 2019 National Superintendent of the Year®
Curtis L. Jones Jr., who spent the first 20 years of his professional life serving in the U.S. Army before taking on public school leadership in Georgia, was named the 2019 National Superintendent of the Year®.
5th Leader in District’s 7 Years but 1st in the Nation: Profile of National Superintendent of Year®
When business leader Roy Bibb sat down for lunch with the new leader of the Bibb County School District in Macon, Ga., he wasn’t sure what to expect. After all, Curtis L. Jones Jr. had spent 20 years as an Army officer, topping out at lieutenant colonel, before embarking on a new career in public education.
School District’s Alignment Work Brings Major Progress, Superintendent Reports
It only takes one plan to align a school district to be successful. During his session “What Does it Mean to be An Aligned School District” on Thursday at the AASA National Conference on Education, the superintendent of the Mountain View Whisman School District in Mountain View, Calif., discussed the impact alignment had on his community.
VIDEO: School Safety and Security (1:59)
Nearly 20 companies in the AASA conference’s exhibit hall are promoting services and tools for addressing school security and student and staff safety.
Fighting Off the Push for District Consolidation Documented by Panel of Rural School Leaders
When Jay H. Burkhart, superintendent of the South Western School District in Hanover, Pa., asked attendants of an AASA panel who was faced with a potential school district merger, more than two-thirds raised their hand.