There is a particular kind of leader who tells you everything you need to know about themselves through the smallest details.
In most schools, the principal’s office feels far from where students actually struggle. The distance is not physical. It shows up in how decisions get made. Ivan Beach did not begin there. He started as a school counselor, which meant
Most educators discover their calling sometime during college or early in their careers. For Dr. Paula J. Bailey, that realization arrived much earlier. In third grade, she noticed that classmates often turned to her when they struggled with an assignment.
There is a question that has followed Dr. Corinne Ness since the earliest days of her academic life, and it has never sat well with her. When she chose to major in music as a first-generation college student, people around
In Mascoutah, Illinois, a small city with a quietly remarkable school district, Dr. Dave Deets, Superintendent of Mascoutah Community Unit School District 19, carries a particular kind of weight into his office each morning. Not the weight of burden, but
There are people who arrive at positions of leadership because the path was always clear, laid out in a straight and well-lit corridor from ambition to achievement. And then there are those who arrive because something happened, something personal and
