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2022 State Assistant Principals of the Year

Each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Office of Overseas Schools, and the U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity will select one assistant principal to represent their state. State winners are selected from applications submitted to the state associations. Because each state’s selection process varies, please contact your state association for more information on their […]

Advocacy Agenda: May 2023

“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 […]

Elevating Student Voice

When I was hired at Haddam Killingworth High School in Higganum, CT, the superintendent told me after my interview that there was “a magic moment” when it was clear I was the school’s next leader. The so-called “magic” happened when a senior student on the interview committee and I made a connection. I don’t remember […]

Transgender Day of Visibility Brings Voice to School Leaders

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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, […]

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 […]