Leadership Matters - May 2013

In this month’s issue

Additional Items  Superintendents practice servant leadership P. 17  Moon Scholarship award winners, P. 19  How school districts  IASA members approve new combined Governmental & Advocacy Committee P. 20  Getting to Know your IASA Board members, P. 21  IASA Calendar of Events, P. 22  Member News from the Regions, P. 23  College & Career Acceleration Summer Institute planned, P. 24  ISDLAF+ Update, P. 24 can use the lease fund law P. 20

Lessons learned from school crisis situations Pages 4—13

General Assembly action starting to heat up P. 15

Bringing Positive Closure to your school year, P. 16

Cover Photo by David Proeber courtesy of The Pantagraph Matt Chapman, a teacher at Normal Community High School, evacuates students to Eastview Christian Church after gunfire at the high school Friday, September 7, 2012. Shots rang out in a classroom after a single student shot into a ceiling. No one was injured.

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