Thanks to passionate, practical parents, students and educators, Minnesota Association of Alternative Programs, MDE offers great opportunities to help develop education plans, School Safety Technical Assistance Center, US Department of Education Office of Safe and Healthy Students, Massive misunderstanding or classic bait and switch. Woolhouse: Well, that's a great question. Brenda CasselliusCommissionerMinnesota Department of Education1500 Highway 36 WestRoseville, Minnesota . Building consensus, he notes, is a long, agonizing process. Do the windows open at the central office? I asked. When she was selected as a finalist in the spring, BPS staffers at Bolling, as well as executives at education nonprofits, had called their contacts in Minnesota to get the scoop on the promising candidate. Day? she responds, incredulous. Strike a blow for transparency for once. Santoro: So is this a wait and see thing now? Joe Nathan / But even if the consequences of the pandemic are not Casselliuss responsibility, the recovery from it will be. Sorry to keep you waiting, she says. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Superintendent Brenda Cassellius held a press conference Tuesday, a day after announcing Cassellius resignation. Speaking to a room full of staffers and principals, she explained her vision for the next generation of Bostons high schools. Shes scattered, she struggles with talent management, and she doesnt provide a clear vision., Those traits were on full display once she arrived in Boston. During the second half of 2019, she visited every school in the district and met privately with parents, religious leaders, activist groups, and politicians. As we left Lee K-8, Casselliuss aide invited me back to the BPS central office for an interview. The community was behind us, the mayors speech was inspiring, we had secured this new investment, and then, boom, here comes the plague.. Both her father's name and her mothers are unknown. Photo by Matt Kalinowski. would be stepping down at the end of the school year, Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius to step down, Boston Public School students walk out, call for remote learning, COVID-19 outbreak at Curley School 'caught us by surprise,' says Boston Public Schools superintendent, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility at GBH, Transparency in Coverage Cost-Sharing Disclosures. She was named superintendent in May 2019 by then-Mayor Marty Walsh. And thats a good thingright? Just last summer, the school committee renewed Cassellius' $311,000-a-year contract through June 2024. But that's not to understate there's a considerable amount of frustration out there. (Second-hardest job in the country after president, another said.) Boston Globe/Boston Globe via Getty Images By Meg Woolhouse Peter Kadzis Henry Santoro February 11, 2022 Morning Edition Share Email Facebook Listen 8:10 However, she was Carol Johnson's chief of staff, a former superintendent. We took a look at her responses in multiple interviews with Boston education leaders, her extensive background in education leadership, and her plans for Boston Public Schools, to uncover how she will shape the next generation of Boston's young scholars. The Emerald Necklacea narrow, marshy landscape designed by Frederick Law Olmstedcould not possibly be the site of a half-dozen or more high schools. Kadzis: She would like the challenge and being head of school at Boston Latin School hasn't exactly been the bed of roses either. Here are some entertainment opinions that you can follow: Guests manage to have a better time when entertainment involves actions they can be instantly linked in. But the lawsuit says the zip code quota system is wholly-irrational and states that it serves to disfavor Asian and White students by decreasing their numbers at the Boston Exam Schools while favoring Latino and African-American students by increasing their numbers., A Brighton parent and member of BPCAE said, My kids have to submit GPAs and with so many kids in this zip location I just feel that my kids, their chance will be limited to get into exam schools., The lawsuit states, The Students are being required to apply through a race-based process. With your support, GBH will continue to innovate, inspire and connect through reporting you value that meets todays moments. Her heart is in the right place and I believe deeply she is a good person, says a former BPS official. Oh, I want to come in on Thursday. She seems simultaneously energized and at ease at the school. Superintendent Skipper and her husband Peter, a retired BC High School religion teacher, have three children of whom they are very proud, and two amazing son-in-laws: Kassie, a teacher in the Denver Public Schools and her husband Joseph Montoya who is Senior Director of Residential at Namast Solar; Lihlani, who is the Associate Director at Zip codes are allocated spots at the schools based on the number of students living in the area and family income. The discovery of a gun at a South Boston school on Friday along with the vicious attack on a principal a few months ago showed the school system has a long way to go at protecting kids and teachers from violence. I dont like to criticize people for crying because its often a form of sexism, says a current BPS official. Its unclear if Wu approved of the column but it could be viewed as a little shot at the mayor and school committee. But she knows where she is. In theory, this was a fine idea. Near the end of our final interview, during which I detailed her critics charges, Cassellius cut me off. It is not hard to imagine how a person with this gift, as well as Casselliuss taste for disruptive, visionary thinking, could be a good fit for superintendent of BPS, a district thats long had a broken relationship with the community. Brenda Cassellius, ESSA, Hue Hguyen, Minnesota Department of Education / 0 Comments, originally published by www.hometownsource.com, March 22, 2017http://hometownsource.com/2017/03/22/joe-nathan-column-mde-offers-great-opportunities-to-help-create-education-plans/ MDE offers great opportunities to help develop education plans Give Minnesota Commissioner of Education Brenda Cassellius and her colleagues at the Minnesota Department of Education some credit. Midday, I say. But its more than that. BOSTON (CBS) - Boston Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Brenda Cassellius is resigning at the end of the school year. As CFO Nate Kuder completed a preview of the public budget presentation he would give in February, Cassellius proposed an idea. Go Blue! The Boston. Their children are Christian Michel, Charles Justice, and Ani Grace. Josh Collins, Education Evolving, Education Minnesota, EdVisions Schools, Friendship Academy of the Arts, Jensen family, Julene Oxton, Kenneth Eban, Larry Pogemiller, Lars Esdal, Lisa Snyder, Lynn Nordgren, MAAP STARS Conference, Minnesota Association of Alternative Programs, Minnesota Office of Higher Education, Nell Collier, Patti Haasch, Rep Roz Peterson, Rep. Carlos Mariani, Rep. Jenifer Loon, Rep. Linda Slocum, Rep. Sondra Erickson, Sam Fredrickson, Sandy Connoly, Sen. Greg Clausen, Steve Allen, Students for Education Reform-Minnesota, Westra family / 1 Comment, This column originally was published by a series of ECM/Sun/Current Newspapers in late November, 2017 Thanks to passionate, practical families, students and educators Joe Nathan One of Americas finest traditions encourages us to pause late in the year, regardless of current controversies, to offer thanks. Until then, my sleeves are rolled up because we still have work to do," Cassellius wrote in her letter. Back in the cafeteria, before we leave, she nods with approval as an administrator explains the schools grocery-distribution system. Worked in the Bismarck, N.D., bureau as a reporter and desk editor. A new wave of trouble began with another of Casselliuss bold ideas, her so-called High School Redesign Plan. Shes a quick problem solver, says Bernadeia Johnson (no relation to Carol), a former superintendent of Minneapolis Public Schools. As this story went to print, Cassellius was preparing for a virtual retreat with the school committee. Was it the pandemic, which stalled Casselliuss agenda and turned her job into mission impossible? Then she added an admonition: You need to grow in humility., Stung by the criticism despite the vote of confidence, Cassellius went home and cried. Perhaps that is why she seemed so buoyant when I visited Lee K8 with her and why she meets regularly with her student cabinet, and with BPSs student advisory council. There have even been rumblings that she may not last much longer in her position. Everyone was going every which way without direction, without leadership., Meanwhile, the senior leadership ranks cleared out as incumbents defected (Casselliuss chief of staff left in complete and utter dismay, a current BPS official says) or were pushed to resign. And we want to see all the dirty details including money figures of the separation agreement Cassellius now must sign. When you are disrupting the status quo with an anti-racist lens, as an African-American woman, you have to think about the motives of why people might be criticizing the ideas and the disruption that Im making so that underserved children can be served better and to create opportunity and access. A superintendents contract can be broken with four months notice and the school committee extended Casseliuss contract last year, according to the Herald. Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius will resign at the end of the school year, bringing to an end a three-year tenure marked by COVID-19 upheaval and leaving Boston's new. 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She came under fire from some parents and teachers for her efforts to reopen the schools for in-person last fall. Will they be encouraged and challenged? In addition to his editing duties, Senior Editor Peter Kadzis contributes political analysis and is part of the trio that produces the Scrum Podcast. COVID was an incredible challenge. In 2021, school districts will face the daunting task of repairing the damage sustained during the pandemicparticularly for low-income children of color who have borne the brunt of the school shutdowns. And that was before the pandemic hit, turning the district and her job upside down. Brenda Cassellius's husband is Jason Cassellius. Battenfeld: Boston parents and kids deserve a truthful accounting from Superintendent Brenda Cassellius Start the conversation BOSTON MA. Login or Sign-up to show all important data, death records and obituaries absolutely for free! Meg Woolhouse is GBH News' K-12 education reporter. Her resignation. Charlene has a way of coaching Brenda, says the former Minnesota Department of Education official. The couple has been happily married for years and is parents to three children. Some zip codes, such as Chinatown, Beacon Hill and West Roxbury will have less exam school seats while other neighborhoods that are typically disadvantaged such as Dorchester and Mattapan, will get more. Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments ? School officials under Walsh tightly controlled the search process when Cassellius was hired and now the school committee says it wont divulge details of the separation agreement until next month. And in that time, building improvements and academic improvements have been promised, but not met. Follow us so you don't miss a thing! She has overseen defections and ousters among her senior executives, a revolt from school principals, and public excoriation from influential nonprofits and activists. Battenfeld: Boston parents and kids deserve a, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Battenfeld: Boston parents and kids deserve a truthful accounting from Superintendent Brenda Cassellius, Editorial: Focus should be on saving Social Security, Lucas: Heres hoping for a Biden-Trump rematch in 2024, Howie Carr: The kinked grocery cart under Bidens America, Woodward: Blame organized crime for shelves under lockdown. Unfortunately, Superintendent Cassellius did not meet it. While the nation tunes in tonight to hear the "Brenda Cassellius is the right choice for the leader of the BPS,'' he said. When I asked Mayor Walsh about this effort, he said it would be false to characterize the role explored over the summer as a checkmate to Brenda. However, he said that as of December, Cassellius was seeking to hire a new operations director. / CBS Boston. Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius taught a fourth grade class Wednesday as school districts across Massachusetts struggle to reopen due to COVID-19 staff shortages. Boston Public School Superintendent Brenda Cassellius will walk away with more than $300,000 as part of a separation agreement that she reached last week with the Boston School Committee. We're seeing staff come back! Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius will resign at the end of the school year, bringing to an end a three-year tenure marked by COVID-19 upheaval and leaving Boston's new mayor with major decisions on the education and policing fronts. Current and former BPS officials came to believe that the root causes of Casselliuss scattershot ideas were her lack of attention to detail and short attention span. Instead, invitations will now be issued by weighing student performance, zip code and GPA or MCAS results, a change that was considered a historic win for underserved communities when it was approved. Big changes and bold visions were called for. They did not. MS Word MS WORDPDF PDFView FileMS WordFebruary 16, 2012Dr. Brenda ignored all of that, a former official says. When Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius resigns at the end of the school year, she'll take with her hundreds of thousands of dollars from a separation agreement. Rachel Pearson is a parent advocate and trainer at the PACER Center, a nonprofit that champions youth with disabilities and their families. Cassellius has faced criticism for allowing her administrator's license to lapse. For the next eight years, she served as Minnesotas commissioner of education. Trying to keep the union appeased and keeping the schools open during the coronavirus pandemic had to be a difficult job for Cassellius. Boston Superintendent Brenda Cassellius helped dismiss children at the Nathan Hale Elementary School in Boston after substitute teaching there on Jan. 5, 2022. She paralyzes the organization through her incoherence, another former official says. September 8, 2018 Will new reporting & school support systems help students? We will remember him forever. According to a person who spoke with him multiple times in August, the COO said, in colorful language, that Casselliuss teams preparations were so far behind schedule that it would require drastic measures to open school buildings in time. But plans and strategies have to be tethered to reality, says one former BPS official, and that just doesnt include an imaginary train taking kids around a city to schools that dont exist.. I want you to run academics for Memphis middle schools, Johnson told Cassellius, assuring her she could handle the job overseeing 31 principals, many of them decades older than her. She even briefly served as a classroom teacher . Publicly, at least, Cassellius still had the backing of the two allies she needed most: the school committee and City Hall. Shes had an extraordinarily difficult maiden year as superintendent, and I think shes performed remarkably well under the circumstances. But, he adds, There have been times when Brenda had such a bold vision that its overwhelming to people. After two-and-a-half turbulent years as superintendent of Boston Public Schools, Brenda Cassellius will resign in June, city officials announced Monday. Brenda Cassellius. But they found her methods strange. This didnt come entirely as a surprise. Boston schools superintendent Brenda Cassellius appeared to catch many by surprise Monday when she announced she would step down from her position at the end of the school year. But for Cassellius, it signaled that she was losing one of her first and most powerful allies. Campbell Brown (journalist) Alma Dale Campbell Brown (born June 14, 1968) is the head of global news partnerships at Facebook and a former American television news reporter and anchorwoman. The people I spoke to who had no inside knowledge. Then, throughout the day, the students would shuttle between buildings on a train. Blue Ribbon Schools, Brenda Cassellius, Minnesota Department of Education, Minnesota Education Report Card / 0 Comments, The following column appeared in several APG of Eastern Minnesota newspapers during September, 2018 Will new reporting and support systems help students? Aaliyah Hodge, Birchview Elementary School, Brenda Cassellius, Catalina Anampa, Chris Williams, Daniel Sellers, DaVimci Academy of the ARts, Debra Lach, Denise Rodriguez, Denise Specht, Don Sinner, Ed Allies. You have a vision, according to the official. "We have come to this decision after careful deliberation, with mutual respect for all involved and an acknowledgment that there is much work still to be done this school year and beyond," Boston Mayor Michelle Wu wrote in a letter to the school community. But BPS staffers and observers perceived Brophys work as an emergency rescue mission. That kind of knocked me down a peg. She picked herself up by reading every book I could find about the craft of leadership, she said. ", In a statement, the mayor said she was "grateful for the Superintendent's leadership, especially while navigating the COVID-19 pandemic.". She was looking to the futurea future beyond the pandemicand was on the verge of unveiling her new vision, a plan she called Return, Recover, and Reimagine.Were going to be really reframing and pivoting, she told me, because our five-year strategic planthe one she announced a year ago, parts of which were later lambasted by the principalshas gotten very little attention., The new plan, she said, would increase the budget, close achievement gaps, and turn BPS into a real 21st-century school district., The Best Public High Schools in Greater Boston, The Best Public High Schools in Mass., Ranked, This search result is here to prevent scraping, Tom Schlesinger-Guidelli to Open Hook + Line in the Seaport, The Real, Essential Backstory of the MLK Statue The Embrace', On the Market: A Newport Condo Tucked Away in a Stone Turret, Review: Moca Largely Succeeds With Wildly Clever Seafood, Five Boston Homes for Sale for Under $800,000, This Stoughton Artist Paints Saturated Scenes of '60s Suburbia Boston Magazine, Careers and Internships at Boston Magazine. Collaborations, School Choice (including dual credit, district & chartered public schools). As she traveled the city on her listening tour, Cassellius issued a flurry of staffing directives that often went unannounced and unexplained. The mayor and Cassellius say they arrived at the decision to have Brophy help BPS together. According to four current and former BPS officials, she has offered multiple BPS employees significant promotions seemingly on a whim, with little knowledge of their track records. . Parents of Boston special needs students especially struggled to get the district to listen to the fact that their kids needed to be in school early on in the pandemic and special needs kids were regressing during remote learning and their parents were heartbroken because they were watching it up close. Brophy might have seen it this way, too. Before working with . Kadzis: Well, first of all, I didn't sound very sympathetic the first time. She fell afoul of the powers that be when she made it clear that she thought they had to close schools to make running the system more efficient. Then she reflected. February 7, 2022 / 4:00 PM Its that she was falling apart., In October 2019, Cassellius reached for a lifeline, hiring Charlene Briner as her new chief of staff. It is tradition for the President to recognize special guests during the State of the Union address each year. What's the mood among parents and students over this announcement? A lot of the most energetic discussion have been around the admissions policies of the city's top three exam schools. Brenda Cassellius was born in Minnesota on September 9, 1967, and she will turn 54 in 2022. Even with her facemask on, her expression made clear that the episode had been painful. Further, just before applying for the superintendent role in Boston, she had been turned down for the same job in Minneapolis. The Boston Public School Committee is expected to sign a separation agreement Wednesday to give Cassellius at least $311,000, the Boston Herald reported. But when youre in charge of a school district for more than 50,000 students, being nice isnt enough to prevent us from being honest that shes not getting the job done.. Leading for equity, Dr.. Run the recorder throughout the midday. Lets breathe out. When [Casselliuss predecessor] Laura Perille was in front of an audience of children, she seemed stiff, the official says. I feel like I am put in places where I need to be for that reason. That was triggered by parents who had been keeping a close watch, a much closer watch than the city had. Santoro: This is for both of you has her response to the pandemic been welcomed? Yes, she is still wearing pumps. Photo By Matt Stone/ MediaNews Group/Boston Herald. Alexi's professional experience encompasses print, television and radio at NY1, CNN en Espaol, 88.7FM WRHU and The Republican newspaper. Outgoing Boston Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius came in under the cover of darkness and is leaving the same way with a potentially huge severance agreement the city is sitting on. Unveiled in early 2020, it laid out an audacious vision for the future, proposing that seven large high schools across the city simultaneously expand Advanced Placement and pre-AP courses, create technical and vocational education tracks, offer dual enrollment with local colleges, implement International Baccalaureate programs, and expand to include the seventh and eighth grades. Superintendent Brenda Cassellius said she supported the change because it is easy to understand, maintains academic rigor, and increases the opportunity for disadvantaged students. He had a flawed first search for a superintendent. This violates Students constitutional right to be free from racial and ethnic discrimination.. But that's my best guess. This transcript has been edited for clarity and length. Seven, or eight, or nine superintendents in a relatively short period of time? Get all the latest from Sanditon on GBH Passport, How one Brookline studio helps artists with disabilities thrive. BOSTON The Superintendent of Boston Public Schools, Dr. Brenda Cassellius, has announced plans to resign after three years as leader of the state's largest school system and will address the decision in front of reporters at a news conference scheduled for 10:15 Tuesday morning. (In an interview in December, Brophy said his work with BPS over the summer was less a rescue mission than an all-hands-on-deck situation.). However, on Tuesday Dr. Cassellius sent her letter of resignation to Mayor Michelle Wu and Boston School Committee Chair Jeri Robinson. Joe Nathan / 2018 Columns / Blue Ribbon Schools, Brenda Cassellius, Minnesota Department of Education, Minnesota . Cassellius, the former Minnesota Commissioner of Education, was selected superintendent in 2019 by the Boston School Committee. "I will be working in close partnership with the School Committee to move forward the search process for a permanent Superintendent. What was frustrating, one former official says, was that they were often mutually contradictory. They were also disruptive. The daughter of a young single mother who later became a young single mother herself, Cassellius grew up on food stamps in the projects of Minneapolis and participated in a Head Start program.. Brenda Cassellius has been criticized for her job thus far as superintendent of Boston Public Schools, though her supporters say she deserves time and a chance to implement her vision. I dont want this to come off negative, she told me in our first interview, but I think theres almost a sense of pride in that Bostonians say theyre hard on people, just like in Minnesota we have Minnesota Nice., Paul Reville, who served as secretary of education under Deval Patrick and is a supporter of Cassellius, says Cassellius needs to be given time. At the Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, for instance, she wowed teachers and parents when she started communicating with children in American Sign Language. Here's what she said at a press conference the day after announcing Cassellius' departure. She succeeded Tommy Chang who resigned after three years. Thats my style, and I think people are getting used to that now. She said that ultimately it was not possible to close McKinley and Jackson/Mann before the 2019 school year began, but that if she could have done it, she would have. She has a deep gift for connecting with children, says a current BPS official who is critical of her leadership. Cassellius made the announcement in a letter to parents, students and. However, out of public view, their support was wavering. As Minnesota students return to school, for most families, the key questions involve their own youngsters. There was a moment when I thought, Maybe shes this madcap genius, the former official says. 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