June 2022: School Administrator
Leadership Styles & Diverse Talent Pipelines
This issue examines how school system leaders can make conscious choices to increase their effectiveness.
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Additional Articles
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Operating With an Entry-Year PlaybookExperiences of 29 first-year superintendents in Washington during the pandemic lends ideas for dealing with complex community-based challenges
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Committing to Male Teachers of ColorA superintendent in South Carolina had his own ‘exodus moment’ on inequity, then pushed his district to develop a defined pathway for diversifying the teaching ranks
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Upsides to Teacher Hiring From Pandemic PanicThe author’s study found administrators using modified practices for more effectively evaluating talent through virtual interviewing
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Salary by DegreeThe value of advanced degrees on compensation in school system leadership.
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Personal Issues, Professional ImpactHow to deal with a failing school social worker when reinforcements are lacking to deal with the growing needs of students.
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The Legal Framework of High School HazingThe challenges of legislation that differentiates unacceptable behavior from appropriate traditions.
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Maintaining Focus at Board MeetingsMembers’ individual needs can run counter to efficiently run school board sessions.
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Championing DEI Is Worth the Personal CostA superintendent weathers criticism for attending to diversity, equity and inclusion in his school community.
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Connecting With Colleagues via Trivia, Playlists and Drop-insIn a rural state, you do whatever it takes to connect with fellow superintendents.
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What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About WellnessTimeless lessons for an English teacher turned superintendent from some of the Bard’s best-known plays.
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Using ESSER Funding To Re-Engage StudentsInvesting in summer school programs with federal support.
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Leading Education ForwardThe author’s column finale on creating a clear and compelling vision for public education’s future.
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Finding Personnel Answers in a New Workforce ModelStimulating the educator force beyond the teacher shortage issue.
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For Her, ‘It’s Not Just the Academics’For this award-winning Georgia leader, academics is just part of the picture.
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Editor's Note
Model Thinking for Others
One of the most important ambitions we harbor as a professional magazine for school system chiefs is to showcase exemplary district-level leadership and promising practices. In the June issue, we turn to two highly respected superintendents – one to share his homegrown initiative on teaching personnel that is producing intended results and the second to deliver his thoughtful advice on managing through harsh moments.
Baron Davis’s work to significantly raise the number of male teachers of color in the Richland School District 2 in Columbia, S.C., qualifies as one such idea worth sharing. As the district’s first Black superintendent, Davis devised the Premier 100 initiative because of the impact on African-American children he could demonstrably see from the presence of African-American men of color in the classroom.
We also wanted to use this month’s issue to offer one final time some of the principled thinking on public school leadership of Stephen Joel before he bows to retirement this summer as superintendent in Lincoln, Neb. We asked Joel, who has spent 37 years as the chief leader of three school systems, to articulate a few time-tested coping mechanisms during this period of considerable tumult in K-12 education.
We hope our readers will benefit from the intellectual firepower these two sterling leaders generate in their jobs. I’d like your reactions to what they have to say.
Jay P. Goldman
Editor, School Administrator
703-875-0745
jgoldman@aasa.org
@JPGoldman
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