The choice of language in leadership is more than mere semantics; it's a fundamental reflection of our approach towards those we lead. As we strive to cultivate an empowering, innovative, and compassionate school culture, let us consciously shift our language and leadership style from "what I want from you" to "what I want for you".
"Never have we seen such rapid expansion of labor in education," said Marguerite Roza, director of Georgetown University's Edunomics Lab. This surge in staffing coincides with a steady decline in student enrollment in many states. Here's how that will impact districts in the coming years.
Superintendent Kurt Browning, the longtime leader of Florida's Pasco County Schools, calls himself a "champion of choice," having launched several magnet programs and expanded advanced curriculum offerings.
In doing so, Colorado's largest school district has joined a handful of others across the United States in rolling back policies enacted amid the national racial reckoning that occurred three years ago after the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer in Minneapolis.
Broward County Public Schools hopes to put an end to a turbulent few years for its superintendents with its choice of Peter Licata, a regional superintendent in the School District of Palm Beach County.
FBI agents were at superintendent's Illinois home on Tuesday after a State Board of Education audit and additional monitoring identified $3.24 million in unallowable expenditures and salaries at Paris Union School District 95.
A state Board of Education review team has allegedly uncovered dozens of non-compliances with how e Upshur County Schools spent federal pandemic relief money.
At-large board member Denise Corbo filed the lawsuit, which also names the school board chairman and school district, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Tuesday, alleging that the school board had failed to accommodate her disability and had denied her access to participate in school board meetings.
3- to 4-year-olds not in school, 4th-grade reading proficiency, 8th-grade math proficiency, and on-time high school graduation rates are all contributing indicators in this state-by-state ranking on education in this new report from The Annie E. Casey Foundation.
"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."
