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Leadership

Here are the administrators who just landed new superintendent posts

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Three urban districts choose new leaders as several small school systems are giving administrators their first opportunity to serve as superintendent.

School choice: How to co-opt the concept and keep it within your district

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Superintendent Roger Freeman has coopted the school choice concept within his K-8 district by replacing traditional attendance zones with a series of career-focused academies.

Video Q&A: How one superintendent launches students into better lives

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In this video Q&A, Wisconsin Superintendent of the Year Mark Hansen covers his priorities: career-based learning, community engagement and early-college.

Is high turnover now leading to higher superintendent salaries?

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Superintendent salaries in some California districts have grown by around 60% as openings increase and applicants decline, according to an EdSource analysis. See what's happening in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

Another wave of new superintendents is taking the helm

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A 36-year career in the Virginia Beach City School District has ultimately landed interim superintendent Donald Robertson in the top spot of Virginia's fourth largest school system.

How to build schools: Help your community tell its story

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"We worked on creating the story with the people of the community—it’s their story. Community members wrote their own story of what they wanted their community to look like for their children," Superintendent Jennifer Lowery says.

Equal access, college pathways and DeSantis: A sit-down with Supe Jose Dotres of Miami-Dade

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While Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Jose Dotres has proven himself to be more than a capable leader, job security as a superintendent in Fla. has never been more fraught. Here's what's on his agenda for his last three years on the job and how he's learned to navigate a new political environment.

How one fearless superintendent is elevating education outside her district

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Superintendent Kimberly Rizzo Saunders is not sitting idly by while New Hampshire remains at the bottom of the list for per-pupil funding. 

More than a dozen districts just selected new superintendents

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The Boise School District in Idaho has promoted Deputy Superintendent Lisa Roberts to serve as the district's first female leader. District elsewhere are also giving administrators their first shots at the superintendency.

In one district where teachers practice yoga, student behavior is better

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"It’s very hard for teachers or any human being to be responsible for the social-emotional health and wellbeing of another person without first attending to themselves," says Barbara Malkas, Massachusetts' 2024 Superintendent of the Year and a certified yoga instructor.

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