Connecticut Superintendent Gains Inaugural Digital Superintendency Honor From AASA
The superintendent of Meriden Public Schools in Meriden Conn., Mark D. Benigni, was honored with the first EmpowerED Digital Superintendent of the Year Award during the 2nd General Session at the AASA national conference in San Diego.
Safety and Security Takes a Major Place in the AASA Conference’s Exhibit Hall in San Diego
The number of students thinking about harming themselves or having suicidal thoughts was 52,491 out of 146,000 items uncovered by Gaggle during 2018-19 school year, according to company flyer distributed in the AASA national conference’s exhibit hall.
Panel Promotes Principal Pipelines to Strengthen the Quality of School Leadership
With the ongoing success of the Wallace Foundation’s “Principal Pipeline Initiative,” a panel at AASA’s national conference encouraged school district leaders to recreate the program’s core components. Daniel Domenech, Douglas Anthony, Jeff Eakins, Monica Goldson and Nicholas Pelzer presented their findings during the Thursday Thought Leader session, “Principal Pipeline: A Cost Efficient Strategy to Improve […]
Building ‘A Nation at Hope’ Requires Extra Emphasis on Social and Emotional Learning
Our education system is on the right track but still falling short in meeting the social-emotional needs of students, a panel of education leaders said at AASA’s national conference on Thursday. Educators from across the nation packed the Knowledge Exchange Theater for “A Nation of Hope: Social and Emotional Learning Success,” with a panel composed […]
Video: Ann Levett on Social Media in a School Crisis (1:02)
Ann Levett, superintendent of Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools in Savannah, Ga., discusses in a one-minute video why social media is a critical strategy for a school district when sharing important information to the community, especially in crisis situations.
Brain Expert Fires Up Passion for Student Pursuits of Science and Technology
How well do you understand your brain? Or perhaps more importantly, the brains of your students?
Early Childhood Emphasis Deserves a Prominent K-12 Place, Federal Head Start Chief Says
Before becoming director of the federal Head Start program, Deborah Bergeron spent much of her three-decade career as a school administrator, including many years as elementary school principal in a building that also contained a Head Start program. The Head Start program in her school might as well have been on the other side of […]
Trauma-Sensitive Teaching Practices Shared by Educators for Bettering the Outcome for Students
When Ray Powers worked in Brockton Public Schools in Massachusetts a decade ago, he came face-to-face with alarming behavior in classrooms.
Video: Susan Cole on the impact of trauma on student learning (2:33)
Harvard educator Susan Cole discusses the serious issue of student trauma and the primary characteristics of what she calls “trauma-sensitive schools” in a 2½-minute video produced at the AASA national conference in San Diego, where she was a presenter on Feb. 13. Cole is the project director for the trauma and learning policy initiative, a joint collaboration between the Harvard Law School and the Massachusetts Advocates for Children. For more information, visit aasa.org.
Panel Focuses on Strategies to Stem Failure Among Middle School Students
Audience members laughed when Laurie Barron, superintendent of Evergreen School District 50 in Kalispell, Mont. joked about the struggles of keeping up with outdated technology before she made the claim that many educators are “almost as outdated as the Chromebooks used in classrooms.” From that point on during the AASA conference session “Prevent Failure” on […]