Superintendents and school boards are solidifying their spending plans as ESSER expires and other financial pressures mount, says Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University.
A few days after Joe Gothard was named the 2024 Superintendent of the Year, he announced last week that he was leaving St. Paul Public Schools in Minnesota to return to lead his hometown district, the Madison Metropolitan School District in neighboring Wisconsin.
Ready to move forward? Focus on the student experience. Keep aligning instructional expectations toward real-world application. Personalize. Build partnerships. And make data-based decisions based on outcome data.
Leaders are therefore tasked not only with preparing for the unthinkable—they must also be ready to address parents' fears and answer their valid questions regarding emergency preparedness planning.
If your school district is in the "path of totality" for this spring's solar eclipse, you and your community are in line for a once-in-a-liftetime learning experience.
Being a visible leader is significant in fostering trust, driving innovation, enhancing communication, nurturing collaboration, and ultimately, shaping the future of our schools and students.
Community and technical colleges have helped shorten the time to obtain a degree for hundreds of thousands of secondary school students. The importance of these programs in terms of time to degree for the possibility of preparing baccalaureate degree teachers is paramount.
Chronic absenteeism has eased some from post-pandemic highs but it remains more severe in districts that, even pre-COVID, had been struggling most to keep kids in school. School leaders will need "both carrots and sticks to address the problem," one researcher contends.
