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Superintendents Gain Advice, New Insights From Network

Connecticut Leaders Gather to Examine Instructional Challenges

Windsor, Conn.

For teachers, practical advice is as close as the room next door. When principals need to know how things get done in their district, they can pick up the phone and call one another. But a fact of life for most superintendents is that it’s lonely at the top.

Which is why Elizabeth Feser, the schools chief here, jumped at the chance to have a group of 11 superintendents from across Connecticut come visit the Windsor district recently and offer a candid assessment of her work to improve teaching and learning.

“We don’t have people pushing us to be better, like teachers have working with other teachers,” Ms. Feser explained. “We...