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The ability to effectively support and empower students is a superpower every school leader hopes to master, but few actually do.As part of our...

[caption id="attachment_15479" align="alignright" width="205"] Haywood Hand, assistant superintendent, Rockbridge County Public Schools, Va.[/capti...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane…Pop culture is filled with stories of heroes using their powers to save the day--be it through feats of strength, bla...

When Dr. Curtis Jones Jr. was named the 2019 National Superintendent of the Year at last week’s AASA National Conference, it came as little surpris...

There’s no magic formula for student success in school.Ask any superintendent--regardless of the size or location of their district--and they’l...

At the end of my first year of teaching, I wanted some feedback from my fourth graders about my teaching. So, I created a report card for students ...

Risk mitigation. It’s an official-sounding phrase, often used to describe a simple challenge: How to prevent potential crises before they start. ...

In today’s hyper-partisan, social media-fueled culture, the notion of trust--what it is, how people perceive it--is proving incredibly difficult to...

The public voice of school superintendents and school leaders has been muted for too long, largely due to school improvement mandates that have the...