Creative leadership.Lamar Alexander Andrew Lamar Alexander (born July 3, 1940) is the senior United States Senator from Tennessee and a member of the Republican Party. He was previously the 45th Governor of Tennessee from 1979 to 1987, U.S. Secretary of Education from 1991 to 1993 under President George H.W. , Thurgood Marshall For people and institutions etc. named after Thurgood Marshall, see . Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. , Fred Rogers--and Nancy Grasmick Dr. Nancy S. Grasmick is the Maryland State Superintendent of schools. Education She received her doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University, her master's degree from Gallaudet University, and her bachelor's degree from Towson University. . If ever there was an award to be won, most of us would be honored to join the first three mentioned. But Nancy A. Grasmick brings her own set of accolades to the winners' circle of the 2006 James Bryant Conant James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 - February 11, 1978) was a chemist, educational administrator, and government official. He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1893 and graduated from the Roxbury Latin School in Roxbury in 1910. He went on to study chemistry at Harvard (B.A. Award, one of the most prestigious given for excellence in the American education community. As Maryland's first female state superintendent, she has successfully served under three governors and both parties. Her well-known "creative leadership" has set content standards for culture and arts education in Maryland's schools as they're set for math and science, and her commitment to young children prompted the state to transition all child care from Special Services to the state's Department of Education (some 370,000 diagnostic profiles now help teachers teach these young ones even better). And she still finds time to go back to her teaching days by giving teachers a shot at a professional development day by subbing for them. On being Maryland's first female state superintendent: "People in today's world are more surprised that there wasn't one [before me]. I don't feel special. [But] I think I provide a role model to other women who still believe doors are closed to them." Size doesn't matter: Maryland's SAT scores are the highest in an eight-state region, and for six straight years Maryland has received an "A" grade from Education Week for its system wide assessments for accountability and achievement--all against a backdrop of 24 different superintendents, a broad spectrum of socioeconomic differences, and an educational population of nearly 1 million people. Road trips: Grasmick enjoys working with students and wants to see them as much as she can a difficult task when you've got 900,000 of them. So she sets a yearly school visitation VISITATION. The act of examining into the affairs of a corporation. 2. The power of visitation is applicable only to ecclesiastical and eleemosynary corporations. 1 Bl. Com. 480; 2 Kid on Corp. 174. goal of 100-110. "I drive about 700 miles a week," she says. Fame of the unnamed student: Grasmick has based her major, daily decisions on one thing: the photo of the nameless student, representative of the children in Maryland's system and beyond, that's graced her desk for 30 years. "I look at that picture every day, and when I have to make tough calls I ask, 'Is this a decision that would be right for this child?'" Free-time folly: After hours Adv. 1. after hours - not during regular hours; "he often worked after hours" , Grasmick is either making music or skating to it. A harpist of 10 years and ice skater ice skate n. A shoe or light boot with a metal runner or blade fitted to the sole, used for skating on ice. ice of 40, she loves both for their tranquility--a necessity in Grasmick's life. "As you can imagine, this job ..." she says, voice trailing. If you're a superintendent, you know exactly what she means. NANCY A. GRASMICK State Superintendent of Maryland Public Schools Age: 66 Salary: $140,000 Tenure: 15 years Students: 900,000 Staff and faculty: 100,000 Schools: 1,500 What Grasmick's staff is least likely to know of her: "I love to climb ladders" she says. From cleaning her gutters on the roof of her four-storey home to climbing ladders to reach books, she's always on the up-and-up. Jennifer Chase In 1993 Jennifer Chase hit Jacksonville's music scene with her band The Blue Plate Special and their unorthodox approach to old blues and jazz standards. In the spring 1996 she received critical acclaim in Europe and the U.S. Esposito is a contributing editor A contributing editor is a magazine job title that varies in responsibilities. Most often, a contributing editor is a freelancer who has proven ability and readership draw. . |
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