Every day, I lead a community of students, teachers, and families who come together to create an environment where holistic, rigorous instruction is intertwined with a deliberate approach to empowering students to make the world a more just place. At the International Community School, a K–5 public charter school in Decatur, GA, we believe that […]
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Student Centered: March 2023
I am a queer student from Kentucky. I am not out to my family, though I will be soon. I have yet to tell them not because I am afraid of their reaction, and for that reason I am incredibly grateful, but rather because I want to come out on my own terms. Throughout high […]
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Recruitment and Retention Strategies to Increase School Leader Diversity
“Everywhere I looked, leadership didn’t look like me. But our students did,” says Danielle Edwards, a school leader and Spelman College alumna who sought school leadership opportunities in her school community. In the absence of guidelines and a career pathway, she relied on her network of Spelman sisters and like-minded colleagues to help her navigate […]
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NASSP News: January 2023
New Leadership Networks for a New Year In November 2021, NASSP launched a set of nine Leadership Networks, which are community groups for school leaders. Currently, more than 2,000 school leaders from around the country have registered as members of these networks. Each group is facilitated by active school leaders and convenes virtually each month. […]
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Pins and Posts: January 2023
A Guide for Growing Your Own Grow Your Own educator programs, which recruit and prepare community-based teachers, are an increasingly popular strategy to address local teacher shortages and diversify the profession. New America has issued “Grow Your Own Educators: A Toolkit for Program Design and Development,” which it calls a collection of user-friendly research, policy, […]
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Fit to Lead: December 2022
Research shows that school principals are second only to teachers in terms of their impact on student achievement. Research also finds that when students of color have teachers who look like them, it increases their rates of success in school. When it comes to disruptions in learning, we know that children from Black and Brown […]
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Legal Matters: December 2022
Title IX proved to be a watershed. Within two years, the number of high school girls playing sports soared from fewer than 300,000 to [3.5] million. … The increases in girls and women playing sports has an impact beyond athletics. Studies show that women who play sports are healthier, get better grades, and have higher […]
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