Administrator Profile

Mark Edwards in the Mooresville (N.C.) Graded School District has drawn national recognition for a digital conversion effort.

Michele Hancock, recently hired superintendent of Kenosha (Wis.) Unified School District No. 1, is transforming all practices, programs and policies to ensure they meet the needs of all students.

This Minnesota superintendent is trying to close this "excellence gap" through innovative curricula.

Glen Rock (N.J.) curriculum chief Kathleen Regan says key to the equation is integrated STEM lessons.

Through strategic planning and clever financial reconfiguring, Superintendent William Skilling of Oxford (Mich.) Community Schools is internationalizing education.

Superintendent Sheri Allen of Mankato (Minn.) Area Public Schools educates several hundred students of refugee and immigrant families, many of them survivors of poverty and abuse in war-torn Somalia and Sudan.

Mohsin Dada, assistant superintendent for business services, used a competitive sale to buy the districts latest bond.

John O'Connor, executive director for special services at the DeKalb (Ga.) County School System, has helped reinvent instruction for special ed students.

CEO Eugene Sanders, Cleveland Metropolitan School District

Sunnyside (Ariz.) Unified School District Superintendent Manuel L. Isquierdo motivates students through technology.