[Video] Takeaways from AASA’s 2022 National Conference? Attendees Share What They’re Taking Home of Value (3:06)
Ask a small group of AASA conference participants what they found of value over three days at this year’s event in Nashville and you’ll likely hear lots of useful lessons. (Video produced by Jimmy Minichello)
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 […]
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 […]
[Video] Two Women Leaders Take Top Honors at AASA Conference (2:44)
Backstage interviews with the two recipients of AASA’s 2022 Women in School Leadership Awards: Sharon Contreras, superintendent, Guilford County Schools, Greensboro, N.C.; and Susan Field, assistant superintendent for learning services, Academy District 20, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Video filmed by Lifetouch and produced by Michael Ellson)
A ‘Love-In’ at Effie Jones Luncheon Honors an AASA Stalwart and Hears From State Legislator on Same Theme
Love was in the air at the 2022 Dr. Effie Hall Jones Memorial Equity Luncheon. The annual luncheon, held at the AASA national conference, honors Jones, who was a teacher, counselor and school administrator for 15 years and served as an associate executive director at AASA, promoting the interests of minority educators and children. The […]
National Superintendent of the Year Curtis Cain’s Unflappable Presence Models Public School Leadership in Contentious Times
As superintendent of the Wenztville School District in suburban St. Louis, Mo., Curtis A. Cain covers a lot of ground. Not just the physical territory – the district’s 18 buildings over 90 square miles – but also the ideological terrain that has put so many superintendents to a stress test of late. Cain has managed […]
Imhoff Exhorts Comraderie for Overcoming ‘the Worst Two Years of Our Professional and Personal Lives’
While admitting to his own self-doubts about his capacity to continue on as a superintendent during the tumult caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, AASA President Paul Imhoff called on his colleagues to be a countervailing human force. His remarks, which touched on his personal and professional challenges, were delivered Thursday afternoon at the 1st General […]
With a Crush of Openings, AASA’s Superintendent Job Fair in Nashville Takes on Heightened Importance for Search Firms
Ten firms in the business of conducting executive-level searches in education are expected to keep plenty busy at the superintendent job fair at the 2022 AASA National Conference on Education. The employment event takes place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 18, in Room 208 of the Music City Center in Nashville. […]
Founder of Mawi Learning, in Closing 2020 Keynote, Urges Superintendents With Demonstrated Energy to ‘See Every Kid’
At the age of 6, Mawi Asgedom arrived in the United States after three years in a Sudan refugee camp and an earlier escape from civil war in his home country of Ethiopia. His immigrant family struggled to survive…
Singing Superintendents, With Fewer Voices, Make a Vocal Stance at Conference Finale
For 17 minutes and 32 seconds, the Singing Superintendents performed five songs at the start of the 3rd (and final) General Session of AASA’s 2020 national conference in San Diego on Saturday morning.