Article Round-Up

[Raynise]

Here are a few articles for your summer reading, courtesy of our partners AASA and K12 Futures Collaborative:

• Blog: Seat at the Table, Voice in the Room: Making the Ex-Officio Role Count : Student ex-officio board members can provide direct, firsthand perspectives on your district’s policies, fostering student engagement in governance, and ensuring better-informed, representative decision-making.
• Blog: Balancing the Urgent and the Essential: A Blueprint for Systemic Change : The next stage of leadership is not only about launching new ideas. It is about making sure the ideas we have launched take root and grow into better experiences for children.
• Blog: The Mentor Who Saw the Whole Person : What began as a mentor/mentee relationship has evolved into a genuine friendship built on trust, respect and shared values.
• Blog: Leadership, Reflection, and the Space Between Practice and Voice : In the space between practice and voice, leaders reconnect not only to the work itself, but to the deeper purpose behind it.
• Blog: Mentor Sessions: Q&A with Dana Monogue: In this conversation with Dana Monogue, superintendent of the Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District in Wisconsin and a mentor in AASA's Aspiring Superintendents Academy® for Women Leaders, you'll read why thriving superintendents lead with deep listening and trust — and how the right mentor can help you find the actionable message inside even the hardest feedback.
• Building a Pipeline for Middle School Leaders : Are We Selecting the Right Leaders for Middle School Leader Positions?
• Where the EdTech Backlash is Missing Nuance: The current backlash is responding to real concerns about screen time, passive learning, mental health, and the loss of social connection at the heart of good teaching and learning, but this lumps all edtech into one category