"Who was I to think that I could tell them what they needed or wanted in their own community?" says Dr. Margaret Crespo, superintendent of Laramie County School District-1 in Wyoming. Using this mindset, she now has a living, adaptable strategic plan.
"The idea that people need to keep in mind is when people don't know what you do as a superintendent, they make up what you do as a superintendent," says Dr. Joe Sanfelippo, superintendent of the Fall Creek School District in Wisconsin.
Education advocacy groups have pleaded with the Federal Communications Commission to modernize E-rate funding to better support districts as financially driven cybercriminals continue to target K12 schools.
Despite a brighter outlook after three years of turbulence, superintendents are extremely concerned about staffing issues: "We're in a better place, but teacher shortages could stall progress."
It's up to district leaders to sort through the mess. ChatGPT offers six suggestions on how you can stay true to your community and your district's mission through it all.
Thursday, March 23 at 2 pm ET <br><br> Attend this interactive webinar to learn some best practices for teaching multilingual learners, and how to implement time-saving digital tools that can improve the effectiveness of dual language literacy instruction.
Over the past six months, many districts have fallen victim to falsified threats. According to one safety expert, they appear to be linked to one another and originate from international sources.
Keeping students actively engaged throughout all stages of their literacy journey is vital to effective reading instruction, but many educators struggle to maintain this critical connection. In this video interview, director of professional learning Cheryl Lundy Swift talks with accomplished educator, consultant, and professor of education Dr. Nancy Akhavan about how to embed reading with […]
The most recent NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) results found the largest decline in reading performance in 30 years. The gap that has always existed between top- and low-performing students has grown starkly wider, putting the most at-risk students in an even worse position. The need for effective literacy instruction is more urgent than […]
