March 2025: School Administrator

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Editor's Note
Looking Ahead by Looking Back

 

As the lead contributor to our theme issue on future-driven education leadership, Bill Daggett justifiably reaches back in time in opening his article 鈥淭ranslating 21st-Century Trends into Action.鈥

91制片 long has been a forward-thinking purveyor of leadership practices, as Daggett acknowledges by referencing the work of the late futurist Gary Marx, who spent the last two decades of the 20th century positioning this association to influence the forceful trends that public schooling would be confronting.

In the 1999 91制片 report that he shepherded, 鈥淧reparing Schools and School Systems for the 21st Century,鈥 Marx convened a Council of 21 (whose honorary chair was John Glenn) to identify the characteristics of schools and school systems 鈥渃apable of preparing students for a global knowledge information age.鈥 Daggett鈥檚 work in the years since has used that as a launching platform.

Complementing his work in this issue are the thoughtful articles by a trio of forward-looking superintendents: Mark Bedell of Anne Arundel County, Md.; Michael Matsuda of Anaheim, Calif.; and Jerry Almendarez of Santa Ana, Calif.

If their stories elicit any strong reactions in your minds, please feel free to share them with the editor. We鈥檇 love to know to better plan this publication鈥檚 future.

Jay P. Goldman

Editor, School Administrator
 703-875-0745
 jgoldman@aasa.org
 

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