October 2026: School Administrator
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Redefining Success for StudentsThe neurocognitive skills students need to build a strong mental foundation.
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Getting Clarity on Hard-to-Measure SEL Concepts in Rural SchoolsThe superintendent in Avon, N.Y., shares how his rural district measures impact of a newly used social-emotional learning tool.
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A Superintendent’s Take on Tracking Students’ SkillsA conversation between Stephanie Carlson, who directs the Institute for Childhood Development at the University of Minnesota, and Kent Pekel, superintendent of the Rochester Public Schools in Minnesota.
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Measuring What MattersRethinking assessment in an educational system that has been grading the same skills for generations.
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Stress on the JobHow the pressures experienced by district leaders has increased over the last 25 years.
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A Rescue Call for AIIs it hypocritical for a teacher to require students to sign an anti-AI usage contract for assignments while using an AI-assisted grading platform?
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From Chatbots to Teammates: Defining the Class of 2040What should we expect students to still know how to do when AI can do so much? The author shares her district’s guiding principle.
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Protecting That Healthy Board Now in PlaceTreating school board members as professionals and partners can maintain a positive, enduring relationship.
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Protecting Students from Employee MisconductProceeding lawfully upon hearing rumors, innuendo and descriptions of poor judgment and when conclusive proof is initially lacking.
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Built, Not Downloaded: The Value of Productive StruggleA superintendent’s argument for pushing students on reasoning and perseverance skills just as AI removes those vital challenges.
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Care and Accountability Belong Together in Leadership
Two practices that aren’t mutually exclusive and together represent a high form of impactful leadership.
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A Framework for Building Students’ Coping SkillsTeaching students strategies for managing stress through a research-based framework.
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Measuring What Really MattersRemembering behind every single data point is a unique child with singular needs.
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The Full PictureBalancing academic achievement with the real-world skills essential to post-graduation life.
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Farewell to AASA Journal of Scholarship and PracticeThe end of a 30-year run of an association periodical focusing on connections with higher education research.
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Sidelight: Michelle OsterhoudtA Sidelight shines on a superintendent who writes passionately about country music for a publication.
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Humility as StrategyA Long Island superintendent walks four miles from her home to her office to stay connected with community.
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Editor's Note
Uncommon Interests
Those who closely read each issue of this magazine to its end probably are aware of an occasional section known as Sidelight that appears in a box on the People Watch page.
Sidelight is our attempt to humanize those who serve as superintendents, to showcase an individual’s distinctive hobby or avocation in brief terms and usually pictorially. It’s a way to capture the human facets of people who may be viewed commonly by the public as colorless bureaucrats. Yet their out-of-office interests suggest quite the contrary.
This month’s Sidelight captures the off-hours role of a rural superintendent in upstate New York who follows the country music circuit and writes about performers and performances for an online publication. Last month, we featured a veteran superintendent in Pennsylvania who plays field hockey on the U.S. Senior Women’s Team, and previous Sidelight subjects have included a professional big-and-tall clothing model, a high school basketball referee, a collector of vintage soda cans, a high-altitude sky diver and the lead singer for a weekend party band.
Soon to show up in Sidelight: A superintendent known as “Dr. Bee” and another who plays drums in a jazz combo.
Of course, I would welcome hearing from readers with their suggestions for future installments — whether it’s a heads-up about your own unusual interest or someone else’s avocation you’re aware of. Send those leads along to me at magazine@aasa.org, and I’ll take it from there.
Jay P. Goldman
Editor, School Administrator
703-875-0745
jgoldman@aasa.org
@JPGoldman
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