Leadership Concerns

Strategic planning: How to pivot after classes start

A solid after-action review will help you make early mid-course corrections, shift resources to cover unanticipated needs, support principals and improve next year’s planning.

What is taking up other superintendents’ time? We have answers

Time is not something most superintendents have to spare. A new report examines the reasons for that situation, along with the top stressors for K12 leaders and their levels of job satisfaction.  

ESSER is ending: Here’s how to do K12 budgeting differently

Traditionally, districts start each K12 budgeting cycle by taking last year’s spending plan and deciding what needs to change. Frankly, that’s an outdated approach, argues one expert.

These 3 big issues continue to shape the superintendency

Turnover, gender gaps and racial disparities remain major factors in the makeup of leaders in the nation's largest school districts. 

Superintendent turnover: New data show reasons for recent moves

New job? Resignation? Termination? What is the biggest reason for superintendent turnover? Plus, mental health makes an impact on strategic plans.

Superintendents on the move: Retirements outpace new hires this week

Harrisburg School District is among the districts the picked a new leader in recent weeks. Benjamin Henry, now the regional assistant superintendent of Polk County Schools in Florida, will takes the Pennsylvania district on Nov. 1.

Superintendents on the move: Hiring steadies as school year begins

Superintendents are still on the move, though in smaller numbers than they were earlier in the year. Several districts filled vacancies.

Gregory-Portland ISD leader wants her district to ‘wonder constantly’

How Superintendent Michelle Cavazos encourages her staff at a top rural school district to be disruptive and innovative for students.

Superintendents on the move: 2 longtime leaders will retire

Superintendents in Georgia and Texas—with nearly 80 years of K12 experience—are preparing to say goodbye to their school districts.

Superintendents on the move: Vets and first-timers land new posts

A Texas leader has landed his fourth superintendency in this week's moderately busy round of superintendents on the move.

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