Members in the News
April 28, 2025
“Doesn’t matter where you are in the organization ... You may work in payroll, you may change the oil in the buses, you may be the superintendent. You’re here to graduate a kid from high school.”
— Dena Kapsalis
Paradise USD director of student services, in a story about how the district cut its chronic absenteeism rate in half over the past five years, despite challenges from wildfire and COVID. (Governing, April 4, 2025)
“We finally had time to radically dream about what schools could be like.”
— Vito Chiala
— Vito Chiala
Principal at Overfelt High School (East Side Union HSD) reflecting on five years since the COVID pandemic and how it led to major shifts at his school. (Education Beat podcast, EdSource, March 24)
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