"If you choose to respond in a powerful, informed, instructive and positive way, then it can be a huge benefit for us," says Jon Ostendorf, CIO at the Princeton Day School. "It's exciting because it's a challenge and we have to respond to it right away. Every day, you see more potential."
Several large districts are planning modifications to their school calendars in the coming years as students continue to struggle academically one year post-Covid.
"Those goals are ambitious," he says. "They're a stretched goal. Every one of them. In the minds of some, almost unreasonable. But I don't think they are. They're going to force us to reinvent ourselves to really pivot away from the way business and the work were doing into a new reality of education."
In this video, District Administration's Micah Ward sits down with Dr. Don Killingbeck, superintendent at the Hemlock Public School District, to reflect on the school year and learn how he's creating meaningful experiences for students this summer.
"Be so bold in your approach to work that you actually invite termination for being so passionate," says Carvalho, superintendent at the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest in the country.
When Verletta White became the superintendent of Roanoke City Public Schools at the height of the pandemic, she toured the community to ask families what was—and wasn't—working.
In September 2024, school districts will experience a financial reckoning not seen since the Great Recession: a perfect storm of declining enrollment, rising costs and the end of ESSER.
The plan identifies five key areas: Improving safety and well-being, working with families and community, accelerating academic achievement, recruiting and retaining teachers and cost-effective operations.
As U.S. public schools continue to experience an extraordinary level of turnover at the top, new superintendents—including two first-timers—are set to take the reins ahead of the 2023-24 school year.
Jerry Gibson is stepping down at Galveston ISD after calling women 'the worker bees'; meanwhile, several big districts have chosen their next superintendents.
