Recently added articles from District Administration:
Clear expectations.(From the Editor)
Oct 01, 2009; Hartnett, Judy Faust ... AFTER HEARING ALL THE UPROAR THIS SPRING ABOUT THE COMMON CORE STATE Standards Initiative and knowing that in a relatively short time school districts in most states will be impacted in many ways, we decided that it was time for a progress report. We checked in with Gene Wilhoit, executive ...
Healthier lunches.(PEOPLE WATCH)
Oct 01, 2009; Parker-Burgard, Don ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Chef Ann Cooper and her Food, Family, Farming Foundation have launched the Lunch Box, ...
New commissioner.(PEOPLE WATCH)
Oct 01, 2009; Parker-Burgard, Don ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Terry Holliday, North Carolina's 2009 Superintendent of the Year, is Kentucky's new ...
Comic supports DPS.(PEOPLE WATCH)
Oct 01, 2009; Parker-Burgard, Don ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As the school year was about to begin, Bill Cosby joined a campaign by Robert Bobb, ...
Anti-violence plan.(PEOPLE WATCH)
Oct 01, 2009; Parker-Burgard, Don ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Chicago Public Schools CED Ron Huberman has announced a plan to curb youth violence that ...
New superintendent.(PEOPLE WATCH)
Oct 01, 2009; Parker-Burgard, Don ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Saying that Cambridge (Mass.) Public Schools has the potential to be "the best urban school district in ...
Transportation takes a hit.(BRIEFINGS: News Update)
Oct 01, 2009; Mosqueda, Sergio ... EDUCATION FUNDING CUTS IN this tough economy mean current students may once again tell their grandchildren, "When I was your age, I had to walk to school uphill--both ways." For example, a budget shortfall in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District in Texas means that ...
ACLU says police officers in schools need guidelines.(BRIEFINGS: Security)
Oct 01, 2009; Parker-Burgard, Don ... ARMED POLICE OFFICERS PATROL hallways and grounds in schools across the country. A new white paper from the ACLU, Policing in Schools: Developing a Governance Document for School Resource Officers in K-12 Schools, argues that these schools need to have a formal governing document for such ...
Solar lights provide safety and revenue.(BRIEFINGS: Security)
Oct 01, 2009; Parker-Burgard, Don ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] STUDENTS IN THE TAYLOR (MICH.) School District waiting for school buses in the early morning hours will soon see the light--the solar-powered light, that is, illuminating their bus stop. Through a new program sponsored by Adopt-a-Watt and approved by the ...
A high-tech twist on the college fair.(BRIEFINGS: College Prep)
Oct 01, 2009; Parker-Burgard, Don ... FOR OVERWORKED GUIDANCE counselors, students seeking detailed and relevant information about colleges, and parents looking for advice on issues such as financial aid and standardized tests, virtual college fairs can help. Guidance counselors in particular could use a little ...
Symposium addresses college and career readiness.(BRIEFINGS: College Prep)
Oct 01, 2009; Dyrli, Kurt O.E. ... U.S. SECRETARY OF EDUCATION ARNE Duncan gave the keynote address at the third annual Superintendents' Symposium organized by testing agency ACT and school improvement solutions company America's Choice, which had a theme of improving the college and career readiness of graduating high ...
FCC urged to increase E-rate funding in national broadband plan.(BRIEFINGS: Stimulus Monitor)
Oct 01, 2009; Dyrli, Kurt O.E. ... A PANEL OF ADMINISTRATORS, industry representatives and education policy analysts met with officials from the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C., in August to discuss the National Broadband Plan, and among other recommendations urged the commission to increase funding ...
$3.5 billion in Title I grants on the way.(BRIEFINGS: Stimulus Monitor)
Oct 01, 2009; Parker-Burgard, Don ... ALTHOUGH STATE EDUCATION OFFICIALS HAVE been focused recently on the Race to the Top fund, they are also looking at another pool of money scheduled to come their way in early 2010: $3.5 billion in Title 1 School Improvement Grants. These grants, funded by a FY2009 appropriation of $546 ...
Energy performance contracting: it's a powerful way to cut energy costs.(District Profile: WARREN COUNTY (MO.) R-III SCHOOL DISTRICT)
Oct 01, 2009; Butler, Kevin ... JOHN LONG, SUPERINTENDENT of the Warren County R-Ill School District in Missouri, knew that one of the school campuses was badly in need of an upgrade. Built in 1952, added onto sporadically over the years and served by an old boiler system, the campus--hosting an elementary and ...
Social media connects administrators: Superintendent Michael Smith has a penchant for technology that's taken him far.(Administrator Profile: MICHAEL SMITH, SUPERINTENDENT OAKLAND (ILL.) COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT #5)
Oct 01, 2009; Esposito, Jennifer Chase ... MICHAEL SMITH ADMITS HE doesn't talk much about his Web site or weekly blog with the staff, school board or community in his rural Oakland, Ill., district, because most folks probably don't know what a blog is. That's not a disrespectful dig, but reality: In his agricultural district 200 ...
The IT administrator's ever-changing role: in addition to securing networks, they work to keep students safe.(PROFESSIONAL OPINION)
Oct 01, 2009; Eldridge, Shawn ... GOING BACK TO SCHOOL MEANS something completely different to today's IT administrators. I remember when IT administrators were primarily called upon to help fix projectors or update the school's handful of computers, which were mostly used by school staff. Now the IT ...
Preventing cluster suicides: taking the right actions can prevent one suicide from leading to others.(CRISIS RESPONSE)
Oct 01, 2009; Poland, Scott ... A SUBURBAN SCHOOL SYSTEM was saddened when its third student in several months died by suicide. The superintendent shared the most recent tragedy at a meeting with other local superintendents and was startled to learn that across four neighboring districts, nine teenagers had died by ...
Leadership + mobile technologies = educational benefits: cell phones in K12 are inevitable.(TECH DISRUPTIONS)
Oct 01, 2009; Norris, Cathleen ... IT TAKES LEADERS TO MAKE technology truly disruptive. It takes leaders to see how to take a technology and gain benefit from it. Dell saw that instead of using computers to keep track of inventory, it could use computers--and the Internet--to eliminate inventory. At that time, Dell was ...
Digital classrooms take flight: innovative alternatives are giving the traditional textbook a run for its money.(TECHNOLOGY)
Oct 01, 2009; Schachter, Ron ... FIVE-YEAR-OLD Empire High School, a low-slung, seven-building complex in the foothills east of Tucson, has plenty of new technology, including a one-to-one laptop program for all 850 students and a completely wireless infrastructure powered in part by rooftop solar panels. What ...
Measuring success in Harrisburg: Superintendent Gerald Kohn talks about improvements, firsts and future challenges.(PROFILE)
Oct 01, 2009; Johns, Stephanie ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WITH MORE THAN four decades of experience in both urban and suburban districts, Gerald Kohn knows how difficult it can be to change the culture of a school district beset by poverty, social issues and politics. Yet he accepted the challenge of bringing ...
