It's hard to argue that superintendents and their leadership teams have three higher priorities than student success, school quality, and the safety of everyone who learns and works in their district.
At Mount Adams School District in central Washington, Superintendent Curt Guaglianone empowers his students, staff and parents to seek solutions from within to solve their own problems.
It's a 24/7 job that eats into family time, cuts short vacations and requires a thick skin and plenty of grace. Just ask the wife of Superintendent David Hoffert.
Communication, district goals, making tough decisions, knowing your values, and focusing on students helped our district successfully complete one of the very toughest school years.
Among other insights, educators revealed that when they were students, the teachers and leaders of color they connected with were essential to their decision to pursue a career in education.
Many more schools now have a makerspace yet educators are still looking for guidance in connecting the projects, tools, and technologies to classroom curriculum.
Many things make Missouri's Lee's Summit R-7 School District special, according to its Superintendent David Buck. But at the center of it all are the students.
In the class, students had to wear military uniforms and obey orders from an instructor who was often yelling, one student said said, but when several of them pleaded to be allowed to drop the class, school administrators refused.
