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The official blog of NAESP features insights on educational leadership and education policy. Tap here to read the latest publications. NAESP is a professional organization serving elementary and middle-level principals who represent 35 million children in pre-K through grade 8.
NAESP Blog
3M ago
At UNITED: The National Conference on School Leadership, Nashville native and principal Kevin Armstrong spoke about his path to the NAESP presidency and thanked those who supported him along the way.
The post Middle-Level Principal Kevin Armstrong Takes Helm of NAESP appeared first on NAESP ..read more
NAESP Blog
4M ago
This time last week, I was in Nashville surrounded by more than 4,000 school leaders at UNITED: The National Conference on School Leadership. I am always energized by annual conferences that gather practitioners; it feels like a family reunion and professional pep rally mixed into one engaging event.
One of the most inspiring takeaways for me was witnessing and supporting the many movements to provide customized experiences for black and brown school leaders, who are underrepresented in all areas of school leadership. Research shows that racial and ethnic gaps between principals an ..read more
NAESP Blog
4M ago
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Leveraging social media to promote your school is a critical skill for every leader. To succeed, leaders should prioritize social media platforms their school stakeholders use most frequently, post at the best times of the day and week—hint, don’t post on the weekends—and use images and videos to enhance messages.
What was the speaker’s best quote?
“Just because you get invited to the argument doesn’t mean you need to attend. Logical questions deserve a logical response; questions aimed at arguing don’t need responses.”
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NAESP Blog
4M ago
What was the speaker’s main message?
Our job is a journey. It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon, but all the things that happen every day and every minute can make us ask, “Is this really my job?” Through connections, reminders of our impact, and encouragement to strengthen yourself for the journey, Travis Moss and Brittany Lundell offered three tips for navigating the administrative journey:
Find your North Star;
Charge your batteries every day; and
Find a copilot.
What were the speaker’s best quotes?
“Show me a teacher who is clear on their purpose, and I’ll show you a teacher with pas ..read more
NAESP Blog
4M ago
What was the speaker’s main message?
Teacher efficacy is one of the most powerful strategies we can implement in schools if we truly desire to change in schools. We can do this by:
Challenging the status quo;
Being honest and vulnerable;
Determining our success criteria and advocating for it; and
Investing in job-embedded professional learning.
Efficacy is any idea that you put in place, but how do you show that idea has led to changes in practice? We need irrefutable evidence of better results.
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“As we think about change, questions are more important than ..read more
NAESP Blog
4M ago
What was the speaker’s main message?
Joe Sanfelippo and Jimmy Casas inspired a packed ballroom of principals from across the country. Their message was clear from the outset: Our work as school leaders needs to be intentional and include balance.
Sanfelippo began by asking everyone to raise their hand as high as they can. “Now raise your hand higher,” he said. “How is that possible?” This was a visual of how administrators continue to see excellence and that average is not a place we aspire to be.
Casas asked the audience if they were “fixers.” The most in the room acknowledged.
What was the s ..read more
NAESP Blog
4M ago
What was the speaker’s main message?
Apsey identified the five pillars of effective school leadership based on the book What Makes a Great Principal: The Five Pillars of Effective School Leadership by George Curios and Allyson Apsey.
What was the speaker’s best quote?
“You matter! A principal can accelerate student achievement by up to seven months in a single year, or lower student achievement by seven months, depending on how effective the principal is.”
“What’s going to be different as a result of your professional learning? What will your fingerprint be after you leave?”
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NAESP Blog
4M ago
Here we go again. A House appropriations subcommittee has introduced an education funding bill for FY25 that makes deep cuts to foundational K-12 education programs.
Just like last year, the House bill would completely eliminate funding for Title II professional development grants (-$2.2 billion) and Title III’s -$890 million for English language acquisition grants. Perhaps the best that can be said is that the House bill “only” cuts Title I by 25 percent, or -$4.7 billion, as opposed to the 80 percent cut the House proposed last year.
With the expiration of the final tranche of emergency COVI ..read more
NAESP Blog
4M ago
Editor’s Note: The NAESP Mastermind Group is a peer-to-peer mentoring group to help members solve problems in real time through input and advice from other group participants. Led by NAESP Mastermind Group facilitator Andrea Thompson, participants have volunteered to share their problems of practice—and solutions to those problems—in a new NAESP article series “Problem Solved.” This article is the first in the series.
In her school, Patricia Wells-Frazier, principal of Panorama Elementary School in Temple Hills, Maryland, noticed the following factors contributed to a lack of family engagement ..read more
NAESP Blog
6M ago
Many studies have shown that the most important in-school factors for student success are teachers and principals. An effective principal can contribute to outcomes like student achievement, reduced absenteeism, and teacher retention. An effective teacher can contribute to a student’s success at school academically and socially.
Title II, Part A (Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants) of the Every Student Succeeds Act provide all students with greater access to effective teachers and principals by funding programs that support educator recruitment and retention and pr ..read more