Think of out of school time as a design space or a learning lab where engagement, experiences and open access programs are tested and understood for import into the "standardized academic year."

A superintendent's time horizon is longest of all: budgeting, capital projects, strategic initiatives and changing state requirements—and this is the time to prioritize those issues.

Ensuring that you are always able to look to "the next person up" is an adaptive challenge, requiring both strategic thinking and culture change.

Ready to move forward? Focus on the student experience. Keep aligning instructional expectations toward real-world application. Personalize. Build partnerships. And make data-based decisions based on outcome data.

K12's new approach to college and career readiness must be grounded in the three 'ships': mentorship, internship, and apprenticeship.

Karma is the sum of how today's actions rearrange the future. If you don't like the results of your beginning-of-the-year choices, then you can always choose again.

Three of our favorite words are launch, reset and close. They describe moments at a time when leaders can step out of the whirlwind to confirm that the energy is going in the right direction.

Here are 5 tested actions for superintendents, cabinet members and board members to consider as they assess what has worked in the immediate past and what needs to be adjusted.