School Leader
School Leader, NJSBA’s quarterly magazine, focuses on trends and issues of interest to boards of education and their top administrators.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY • 2018 • VOLUME 48 • NO. 4
Special Section
Get to Know TED
Marcos Navas is the technology facilitator in the Union City School District, and a TED Innovative Educator. A former high school history teacher, his interest…
Articles
President’s Message: Technology: Don’t Let the Tools Sit in the Toolbox
When I was studying for my masters’ degree, a fellow student announced that, for her class project, she was going to undertake a study of…
Executive Word: Practicing What We Preach
Since the inception of the Future Ready Schools-NJ certification program, the New Jersey School Boards Association has urged school districts to participate. The benefits are…
ELFNJ Spotlight: New Board Members Attend Weekend Orientation
The first of 2018’s two New Board Member Orientation weekend programs was held Jan. 5-7 at the Princeton Marriott in Plainsboro. Ninety-four new board members…
Legally Speaking: #MeToo in Schools
Amidst the growing list of perpetrators and victims sparked by the #MeToo movement, New Jersey school districts should revisit their current practices and policies to…
Policy Updates: Achievement for All Students
School leaders, education professionals and the education community in general identify student achievement as the top priority of our public school system. But what exactly…
Field Perspectives: A Revamped Process for Evaluating Your Superintendent
One of the most important things that any board of education does is evaluate its chief school administrator, or superintendent. As the individual who has…
Head of the Class: Setting a Course for Innovation in Weehawken
The rapid change defied conventional thinking about school districts. In the Weehawken Township School District, the school board laid the groundwork for change in 2015,…
Extra Credit: What We Think About Public Schools
The 49th annual national poll on attitudes on public education from Phi Delta Kappa (PDK) International, a professional association for educators, was released in September.…