June 2026: School Administrator
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Tangible Change from Student VoiceHow a K-8 district effected change in school facilities and textbook choices thanks to its Kids Congress.
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Student Voice as a Strategic Driver for Responsive ExcellenceIn a New Jersey district, student voice is built into how leadership listens, evaluates and improves practice.
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Why鈥檚 and How鈥檚 of Including Students as Education LeadersThe give and take of educators empowering their charges to have a meaningful impact.
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Professional ReadingSuperintendents鈥� preferences of literature related to educational leadership.
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A Skewed EndorsementOur ethics panel analyzes a superintendent鈥檚 response to an administrator friend鈥檚 request for a positive review of her new book that she believes has little value for readers.
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Accelerating and Clarifying Our Strategic PlanningHow the author used AI to synthesize multiple artifacts into a cohesive guiding document for her school district.
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Unplugged: A Superintendent鈥檚 Digital DetoxThe profound effects of turning off an iPhone for a full summer and the intentionality of a return to his daily screen time.
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When a Contract Ends but the Job鈥檚 Calling ContinuesIn a personal reflection on his superintendency鈥檚 non-renewal, the author shares the need for accepting reality with professionalism and grace.
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Personal Discoveries as a Superintendent鈥檚 Kid
A high school junior, raised in the public eye with a school system leader as parent, provides some coping mechanisms for those in his situation.
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Complex Doesn鈥檛 Have to Mean Complicated
Leadership requires strategic demystification of seemingly complicated processes to reach organizational excellence.
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Reflections on a Meaningful YearFour guiding principles for locating and retaining the best talent.
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Students Shaping TomorrowConversations with students hold immense value for those in school leadership.
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A Clear Vision for What She WantsWinding down her time as superintendent in Baltimore, Md., while continuing to lead with a clear vision.
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Editor's Note
Genuine Student Voice
Those in education leadership often tout the importance of giving voice to students, but many fewer seem prepared to incorporate the input they receive in meaningful ways that impact school policies and practices.
That belief was reinforced by page-one coverage in The New York Times recently about students skirting new restrictions on their use of cellphones in school. The coverage quoted a high school student writing in his school newspaper about the school鈥檚 purchase of supposedly secure pouches for preventing phone access: 鈥淭he most good that came out of the use of the Yondr pouches was an excellent case study in why district-level decisions made in a vacuum almost always backfire.鈥�
This issue of School Administrator ought to give any reader seriously interested in incorporating students into the operations and governance of their schools exceptional examples of how it is happening in some school communities. Notably, our rich offerings include multiple essays by students themselves.
On a different matter, I want to use this space to express deep gratitude to someone whose work has appeared in the last 160 issues of School Administrator, dating back to the January 2012 issue. That distinction belongs to four-decade member Shelley Berman, who helped me create the monthly Ethical Educator column, today one of our readers鈥� most popular sections and a column receiving recognition in multiple publication contests over the years.
His thoughtful analyses of every real-world dilemma we鈥檝e sent his way has appeared in our pages over these 14陆 years. He even published a book a few years back consisting mostly of the ethical situations that have challenged our four-person panel.
This is an occasion with mixed emotions for both of us. I am so appreciative of his support.
Jay P. Goldman
Editor, School Administrator
703-875-0745
jgoldman@aasa.org
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