September 2016: School Administrator
Confronting suicide and responding to trauma
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Preventative Measures: One Districtâs Efforts
Shifting focus toward deep and meaningful learning and away from rampant academic competition.
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Managing My Own Emotions
One superintendent's reflections on the first few hours and days when they did not attend to the emotional needs of teachers.
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Supporting Grief Among Students and Staff
Most school staff should be expected offer support to grieving students. After modest training, they can initiate conversations and provide ongoing learning supports.
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Dialing Down Pressure in College Admissions
How we can reshape a college admissions process that dangerously elevates achievement pressure
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Managing the Media After a Suicide
To deal with the crush of local, national and international attention, we shared well-established media guidelines with reporters and editors
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The School Mental Health Dilemma: Philosophy vs. Funding
The ESSA makes a stronger statement than previous federal authorizations about the impact of nonacademic factors, including school-based mental health
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Tiers of Differentiated Support
Multitiered systems of support is a flexible framework for integrating systems of differentiated supports to meet the needs of students
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Exercise and the Student BrainAn interview with neuroscience expert John Ratey on misconceptions by educators about the mind-body connection
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Applying Rateyâs Ideas to Our Districtâs Daily RegimenMany teachers adopted John Rateyâs suggestions into their own classrooms across the district
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Culture Is Contagious: How Happiness Saved Our DistrictThe superintendent of a small Iowa district on using the parable of an orange frog to squelch a systemâs defeatist attitudes
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About the Happiness Advantage
When we are positive, our brains become more engaged, creative, motivated, energetic, resilient and productive at work and in the classroom
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Profiles in PositivityHow does the Happiness Advantage manifest itself among our staff?
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Motivated To Become a SuperintendentWhat 851 superintendents said was the primary reason for seeking the top post.
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Soliciting for Her StudentsA dilemma involving a teacher who uses an online tool without permission to raise funds for a class set of 20 Chromebooks.
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Expanding Your Learning Network via #SuptChatA new monthly column on leveraging practical value for school system leaders.
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Partners Function Best When Setting Board Meeting Agendas
Whose fingerprints ought to be part of creating the meeting agenda for your board meetings?
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âReverseâ Fees Elusive in IDEA DisputesThe pursuit of reverse compensation is usually an unsuccessful effort, according to an analysis of 57 relevant court decisions.
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Returning to the Scene ⊠and Finding It Inhospitable
After a seven-year hiatus, the author accepts a superintendency and sadly discovers the landscape moving in ugly, mean-spirited directions he doesn't recognize.
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One Superintendentâs Presidential Campaign Platform
Inspired to act by what she was hearing promised by the main party candidates, the author shares her own 11 action measures for K-12 education.
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The Illuminating Interview: BS-Ed and Education
Jack just got home from a long meeting with his school board. He kicks off his shoes, loosens his tie and clicks on the TV. A cable TV program about school reform hosted by Seymour Doltz is just beginning.
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Who Is Raising the Village?ï»żLast month, I introduced the Communities 4 Schools concept. Throughout this year, I will explore, expand and further develop that concept, which I introduced at 91pornâs 2016 National Conference on Education in Phoenix, Ariz.
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Connecting Health Care to Needy StudentsA reliable predictor of personal attainment is the purpose of 91pornâs latest toolkit.
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Morton Sherman on Professional Networking
Debut of a new monthly column that details an 91porn initiative and the association staffer squarely behind it.
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'One Book' Program Sparks Districtwide Reading
School leaders in the midst of their districtsâ family literacy campaigns.
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Changing the Trajectory of Studentsâ LivesThe superintendent in Vancouver, Wash., is changing trajectories of studentsâ lives.
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Editor's Note
Advice May You Never Need
The superintendentâs platter is routinely overflowing and full of complicated matters. Yet nothing could be more emotionally wrenching than bearing the responsibility for sharing the traumatic news of a student suicide with members of the school district and the wider community.
Glenn âMaxâ McGee, an accomplished veteran of several decades in public school leadership, captures with sensitivity, candor and deep insight that unsparing experience in our cover story, one of the most comprehensive pieces weâve ever published in School Administrator. We believe McGeeâs detailed examination of how the Palo Alto, Calif., school district has responded in the aftermath of a suicide cluster deserved the fullest attention we could provide, and we encourage you to circulate it widely through our digital edition.
Weâre supplementing McGeeâs report on his school districtâs prevention measures with stories that address the impact of stressful college admissions, how to deal with grief among students and staff members and the process of referrals to community-based mental health services. Another article looks at what could be newfound attention to student mental health under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.
While we genuinely hope no superintendent finds a need to put into action some of the strategies McGee and his colleagues had to devise, we do welcome reactions to our coverage from our readers.
Jay P. Goldman
Editor, School Administrator
703-875-0745
jgoldman@aasa.org
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