[Podcast] Culturally Responsive Leadership feat. Jill Baker
Podcast host Joe Jones asks Jill Baker, superintendent of Long Beach Unified Schools in California since 2020, to talk about her focus on the principalship and building the capacity of the school leaders. The most important person in the life of a student is the teacher, the second most important person is the principal. Baker […]
Partners Lend Major Sponsor Backing to National Conference’s Events and Services for Attendees
The largesse of 15 corporate and organizational partners provides major support for AASA’s National Conference on Education, as well as photography and other services throughout the year. This year marked another record-breaking year in external partnerships for the association’s conference. Strategic partners ensure the success of the national conference annually, where attendees from the school […]
Conference’s Fun Run Seeks Signups for Opening Morning Road Workout
Join us for the first “officially official” National Conference on Education Fun Run, which will take place at 6 a.m. on Feb. 15, on the streets around the San Diego Convention Center. Many superintendents in recent years have joined me — an avid runner who tries to run as much, though not as fast, as […]
AASA’s Career Expo Provides Face Time with Recruiters Seeking to Identify Candidates for Superintendencies
Executive search consultants from five organizations across the country will use the 2024 AASA national conference to drum up interest in superintendent vacancies they are attempting to fill for their school board clients. The participating search firms at the AASA Career Expo are Alma Advisory Group, BWP & Associates, Hazard Young Attea and Associates, Illinois […]
[Video] Meet AASA’s Four Finalists for 2024 National Superintendent of the Year (2:34)
The finalists for the 2024 National Superintendent of the Year® discuss what this distinction means to them. The finalists are: The National Superintendent of the Year® will be announced at Thursday, Feb. 15, during AASA’s National Conference on Education, in San Diego, Calif.
[Video] AASA 2024-25 Candidates for President-Elect Give Remarks (2:00)
This short video contains excerpts from the remarks that the three candidates running for AASA’s 2024-25 president elect gave at the AASA Governing Board meeting in San Diego on the eve of the National Conference on Education. The candidates are David Law (Minnesota), Tobin Navasio (Montana) and Wayne Vickers (Alabama).
Baron Davis: Recruitment of Black Male Teachers Should Be an Ongoing Commitment, Not a Short-Term Fad
School leaders were urged Saturday to work aggressively to raise the representation of Black and other non-white males to bring better representation to classroom teaching positions for the sake of students’ futures. At an AASA conference session “A Movement Not an Initiative: Empowering the Next Generation of Black Male Educators,” Baron Davis, former superintendent of […]
[Video] Baron Davis: Empowering the Next Generation of Black Male Educators (3:20)
The Premier 100 movement aims to raise the number of Black and non-white male teachers in school districts. In this short interview, former superintendent Baron Davis discusses this movement during a session at AASA’s 2023 National Conference on Education in San Antonio, Texas. This video was produced by Jimmy Minichello. Read more.
[Video] Build a Culture of Student Well Being: An Evaluation of the School Resource Officer Program (2:57)
A Pennsylvania superintendent engaged the audience with stories and action steps to evaluate and improve the School Resource Officer program in their districts. This story was produced by Michael Ellson at the 2023 AASA Conference in San Antonio, Texas.
Tap Faith-Based Leaders as Community Voices in Support of Strong Public Education Systems, Two Panelists Suggest
With political leaders aiming negativity at the nation’s public schools recently, community-level faith leaders can play an important role in undoing the harm by delivering strong supportive messages, according to panelists at an AASA conference session on Saturday morning. Kent P. Scribner, superintendent of Fort Worth Independent School District in Texas, and Charles Foster Johnson, […]