March 2017: School Administrator
Aligning your tools and human capital to transition to electronic content
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Additional Articles
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Coding as Digital Equity?Coding in high school can expose students to careers in computer science.
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The New Relationship Between Digital Content and Curriculum
What’s involved in moving to well-aligned, articulated and accessible instruction for all students.
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Differentiating Personal and Personalized LearningThe differences are subtle. What really matters is teaching students as individuals.
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Personal Growth: Time Spend on PDHow much time do superintendents spend each month on their own development?
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A Swerve Outside the LinesThe ethics panel considers how a superintendent handled a school board member’s request for a letter of reprimand to be placed in a teacher’s personnel file.
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My ABCs of Community EngagementThe superintendent in Fall Creek, Wis., knows how to bank social capital in his small community.
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Uncivil Rights: Preserving Decorum at Board MeetingsThe law can be your ally for ensuring civility when members of the public get unruly.
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Your Board’s Expectations: Visible and Communicative
You can’t go wrong communicating more, not less, with members of the school board.
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An Unfortunate Tale of Our Catch-Up Kids
Does pushing young children into walking, talking and toileting too soon lead to reading instruction and expectations at too young an age? A veteran superintendent sees those signs.
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Educators’ Role in A.D.H.D. Misdiagnoses
While researching attention deficit disorders in children, the author suspected that schools would be held responsible for the epidemic rise in diagnoses. But he discovered otherwise.
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My Jailhouse Visit and What I Learned of Missed Potential
Superintendent speaks about their conversations with incarcerated young adults in Florida and Georgia
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As We Know ItInteresting days lie ahead for public education. We have a new president and an incoming administration that includes a new U.S. Secretary of Education.
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Groundwork for the Digital ClassroomWhat will it take to make the great Digital Leap?
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MaryAnn Jobe on Leadership Development
The association's projects of late focus on education leadership for principals and woman leaders.
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Confronting a District’s SurvivalThe leader in Erie, Pa., is waging a valiant battle for the fiscal survival of his city’s schools.
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Editor's Note
Presidential Prerogative
Since AASA launched School Administrator as a two-sided newsletter in October 1943, the association’s president has been expected to communicate with members through a periodic column. The President’s Corner gained greater visibility when the publication transitioned to a glossy magazine in January 1981.
Every AASA president decides how to use this launching pad to exercise his or her voice. Alton L. Frailey of Katy, Texas, president in 2016-17, has concentrated his attention on the role of community in the success of the public school, an advocacy concept he titled “Communities 4 Schools.” His piece this month, written in the weeks leading up to transition in the White House, anticipates a market-fixated federal agenda.
Over the years, personal technology has simplified our handling of President’s Corner. In my tenure’s early days here, AASA presidents had to send us their monthly editorials by mail or FAX machine so we could retype them on AASA’s first-generation computer system. One memorable president refused to waste time while on the road for AASA business — so he’d mail me his hand-scrawled column on 8-10 consecutive pages of his hotel’s bedside note pad.
Whatever it takes, we’re pleased to provide this important platform for the leadership of the nation’s longest-running school leadership organization.
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