January 2019: School Administrator
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How an Urban District Sends Students AbroadParticipants exhibited enhanced sense of self-identity, engagement in learning, self-confidence and leadership
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To China and BackWhat school leaders on an AASA educational mission brought home to their schools
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Tuition-Paying Students From AbroadMore than 200 public high schools enroll foreign natives to bolster diversity, cross-cultural awareness … and the district’s bottom line
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Managing the F-1 Visas for Foreign High Schoolers
Some of the steps for bringing in students using the F-1 study visa
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'Gaps Are Not Closing. We Need to Make A Bold Move.'The superintendent describes how his system supports all students by supporting the adults
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The Job's ReservationsThe leading factors giving pause to those pursuing their first superintendency.
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A Ceiling on GradesA scenario involving a high school art teacher who refuses to grant any grade above a 96 to leave “opportunities for improvement.” Our panel targets the fairness.
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Giving Students a Voice for Their Own StoriesIn Kenosha, Wis., the school district involves student in marketing to introduce young heroes to the community.
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Judging the Value of Metal DetectorsDo students shed their constitutional rights when faced with a hand-held or walk-through security tool? The legality of the suspicionless search in the schoolhouse.
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Protecting Your Board From Blind SpotsDistrict leaders can keep their board members from a rude awakening when they fail to adequately vet all possible ramifications.
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The Five Forbidden Phrases of Great Leaders
Five phrases ought to be banished from your leadership lexicon.
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Customer Service in a Competitive Education Market
Using the tricks of the trade practiced by the best companies, a public school can turn around its image and culture by 180 degrees.
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Heart, Head and Hand for School Safety
Education leaders must go beyond providing physical barriers to school violence
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Education Through Diverse LensesWHILE ON A vacation cruise several years ago, I was visiting with a husband and wife from Britain and a cruise line employee from India.
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Equity on Visible Display in EcuadorThe professional merits of participating in international education seminars conducted by AASA.
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Ken Mitchell and AASA's Higher Education JournalThe quarterly e-publication seeks to provide peer-reviewed, user-friendly and methodologically sound research that school administrators can apply in their day-to-day work and higher education faculty can use to prepare future school administrators
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Reared for Action During a Year in WaitingHe was appointed superintendent more than a year before assuming his post. AASA member, Baron Davis, featured in the January 2019 issue of School Administrator.
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Editor's Note
Immigrants and Refugees
THE NATION’S POLITICAL DEBATE over immigration bears mightily on the affairs of public education. This is not a new phenomenon, but the heightened and anguished attention during the past two years has elevated the schools’ role in serving the youngest transplants in our country.
So it made sense, in this issue devoted to global and multicultural topics, to shine some attention on a handful of school communities and their leaders in disparate places across the nation who are willingly engaged in the immigration issues. The result is an article by freelance education writer Scott Lafee that we’ve titled “In Defense and Defiance Behind Immigrant Students.”
Lafee writes about the attitudes and approaches of school system leaders, including a school board president, in three locations — near the Texas border with Mexico, a central California agricultural district and an urban district in Maine — to highlight how each is acting to support the education of undocumented children in their schools.
It is worth reminding those across the political spectrum that the U.S. Supreme Court some 37 years ago settled the law governing the rights of immigrant and refugee children to a free public K-12 education (Plyler v. Doe, 1982). How to best address these children remains the duty of those leading the local schools.
Jay P. Goldman
Editor, School Administrator
703-875-0745
jgoldman@aasa.org
@JPGoldman
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