"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.
District leaders are now shifting their focus to school culture as the bedrock for reform efforts. Simply put, when teachers work in a supportive culture, schools improve.
Despite the furor over AI and chatbots, it's not the tools and devices at the cutting edge of edtech that are of greatest concern to K12 IT leaders as they look ahead to the 2023-24 school year.
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.
