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Core Practices Fuel Superintendents' Equity Focus

By Scott Thompson
Categories: Equity, School leadership
December 2016
For eight years, more than a dozen district superintendents in New Jersey have joined together for a full day each month during the school year to listen to and learn from each other as a community of practice. Known as the New Jersey Network of Superintendents, this community of practice has a tight focus on advancing equity through improvement of practice in the instructional core. The network is a program of the Panasonic Foundation, which partners with public school districts and their communities to break the links between race, poverty, and educational outcomes by improving the academic and social success of all students. “The rich discussions and the opportunity to be able to interact with other superintendents is incredibly rewarding,” says network member Olga Hugelmeyer,

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Scott Thompson

Scott Thompson (sthompson@foundation.us.panasonic.com) is assistant executive director of the Panasonic Foundation.

References

City, E.A., Elmore, R.F., Fiarman, S.E., & Teitel, L. (2009). Instructional rounds in education: A network approach to improving teaching and learning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Hatch, T. & Roegman, R. (2012). Out of isolation: Superintendents band together to improve equity and instruction in their districts. JSD, 33(6), 37-41.

Roegman, R. & Hatch, T. (2016). The AP lever for boosting access, success, and equity. Phi Delta Kappan, 97(5), 20-25.

Thompson, S. (2011, November). A community of system-level instructional leaders. Strategies, 15(1), 3-14.


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