Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Why might superintendents blog?

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Kimberly Moritz publicly challenged her superintendent to start a blog. He made a very sensible reply. And yet… I wonder what other superintendents who ARE blogging would say to him. So I’ve asked thirteen superintendent bloggers to respond to this post in the comments area. Hopefully some will find the time to share what value they get from blogging, how they handle some of the concerns Kimberly’s superintendent expressed, etc.

I know what I’d say…

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