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Leadership experts in the K-12 field Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers wrote about challenges and possibilities for administrators in the 21st century. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: school leadership and district leadership.

Assessment Opinion Change Standards, Test Students, Measure Schools
We are being asked to lean on our students to prove we are doing our job using a single measure and we know it is not fair to them. Teachers and leaders are faced with the additional burden of being directly evaluated by these results also knowing there is an expected slump in results during these first years of implementation of an expectedly flawed process.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 21, 2013
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Teaching Profession Opinion Implementing the Common Core and Mr. Potato Head
How can the Common Core be implemented successfully when the implementation of the Common Core (at least right now) leaves no time for professional learning, so teachers can make changes in how they think and plan for discovery, creativity, reflection, and fun.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 19, 2013
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School & District Management Opinion Implementing the Common Core: Needed Time for a Change
We do not have the time to digest what the Common Core Standards are telling us to do. We need time and that essential time is not allowed. To add insult to injury, students and teachers are evaluated on test results that evaluate these standards that are new and yet unlearned.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 17, 2013
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Budget & Finance Opinion Budget Time
The way schools are funded has to change. The country will not thrive unless children in schools are successful. Until we offer a sound basic education to all, systemic excellence is unattainable.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 14, 2013
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Equity & Diversity Opinion Ethics, Morals, and Values Central in Leadership
If educators have not studied ethics, or at least done so as a personal journey, they will be ill prepared to handle these situations
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 12, 2013
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School & District Management Opinion Leadership and NFL's Roger Goodell
As educational leaders we have a responsibility to be those models of moral integrity, of standing by our values and of making courageous decisions even when they are unpopular.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 10, 2013
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School & District Management Opinion Principal's Role Changing, Says MetLife Survey
Principals have jobs that are rapidly changing and they have little control over the heart of the school...what is being taught and how and by whom. Even principals who have developed and support healthy, rich, nurturing, learning environments, know that they are chasing a moving target and tomorrow it might be different.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 7, 2013
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Teaching Profession Opinion The MetLife Survey Reveals Our Need for a Different Type of Professional Development
Our current professional development addresses the intellect but we do mighty little for the emotional or spiritual parts of our teachers and leaders. And these are the sources of morale.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 5, 2013
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School & District Management Opinion Learning to Lead: School Success and Sustainability
No school or district can arrive at success without a talented leader who is able to coalesce energy of teachers around a powerful vision, then motivate, measure and improve along the way - all while building sustainability.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 3, 2013
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Equity & Diversity Opinion Thomas Sobol: 'My Life In School' Is a Book Worth Reading
Tom Sobol gives us an unusual opportunity to not only look at what he dreamed and how he tried, but how he felt along the way. This book offers us a bold and heartfelt story, told by a man now confined to a wheelchair, of the long and winding road leaders walk.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, February 28, 2013
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Teaching Profession Opinion Teacher and Principal Evaluation That Makes a Difference
Since the implementation process is well underway, what can we do to be the transformers? How can we use this debilitating opportunity to actually improve our principals and teachers? This is worth doing. If we begin a new process and simply skim over it without honoring its value, its introduction may be accepted, but not attended to. We have to push against our institutional habit of clinging to the old ways.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, February 26, 2013
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Education Opinion EdWeek's Leaders to Learn From
What is good about these successes is their unquestionable result - making things better for children. Sustainability is judged by a two-fold criterion: Will the change or program be sustained beyond the years of the leader who brought it about? Will it be flexible enough to morph into its next form when the need arises with or without the present leadership?
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, February 24, 2013
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Standards & Accountability Opinion Remediation for High School Graduates: Why?
The collegiate response enabled us, in a clinical sense, to send our graduates along to college. It kept our graduation reports looking good. And it kept college enrollments up. As much bad press as the Common Core has received, it may very well be a beacon for us and help us return to deeper and more rigorous treatment of text in all subject areas.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, February 20, 2013
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Education Opinion Lessons From Lincoln
Lincoln, Kearns Goodwin, and Spielberg have given us a magnificent opportunity to watch leadership in action and learn.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, February 17, 2013
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