Can social media—a source of much consternation in K12 these days—play a crucial role in whether the states your districts call home remain among the best (or worst) for educators? Superintendents and their teams should consider leveraging Instagram, X and other platforms to connect teaching recruits with more experienced educators who can share reasons to come work in the district, advises Ramon Goings, an associate professor in the Language Literacy & Culture Doctoral Program at the University of Maryland.
Lewis Brooks, leader Shelby County Schools, makes it a priority to regularly highlight his students' and staff members' "interests and exceptional accomplishments."
In order for there to be more women involved in district leadership, it requires current and aspiring leaders to create a strong network of females who advocate for one another. And that's the mission these two have sought out to do in their own communities.
This year's Future of Education Technology Conference offers attendees a robust range of professional development opportunities involving some of the most pressing edtech innovations impacting today's K12 sphere, including AI, cybersecurity and more. Here's what you can expect.
With every decision feeling more divisive, technology evolving at hyperspeed, and the needs of school communities getting greater, leaders today have to adapt, innovate, and communicate in fundamentally different ways.
Support from leadership is crucial as inflation, coupled with already low salaries, is making it even more difficult for educators to afford to live in their own school district. Here's what the data says.
"We’re excited and maybe a little bit nervous," Hardin County Schools Superintendent Teresa Morgan says as she and her team get ready to make room for an influx of 24,000 to 37,000 residents over the next decade.
Acting superintendent Michele Mitchell has been appointed the full-time superintendent of Newport News Public Schools in Virginia and Raúl Peña will lead Hutto ISD in Texas.
