The Call to Courage - Brown, Luvelle; Berman, Sheldon
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Standing up to the voices of division demands that school leaders, educators, and parents demonstrate courage. The Call to Courage starts with the foundational concept that courage is not a mere genetic trait, such as height or hair color, it is a personal quality we can develop with intentionality and practice.

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Standing up to the voices of division demands that school leaders, educators, and parents demonstrate courage. The Call to Courage starts with the foundational concept that courage is not a mere genetic trait, such as height or hair color, it is a personal quality we can develop with intentionality and practice.
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Sheldon H. Berman, Ed.D., served as superintendent of four districts in three states-Hudson, MA; Jefferson County (Louisville), KY; Eugene, OR; and Andover, MA-spanning 28 school years. He provided leadership in state superintendent associations as well as in local and national education organizations. He served as Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents President and received the 2003 Massachusetts Superintendent of the Year Award and AASA's Distinguished Service Award in 2022, in addition to lifetime achievement awards for social-emotional learning and character education. He has made nationally significant contributions by furthering social-emotional learning practice, expanding special education funding and enhancing inclusive instructional strategies, advocating and implementing school integration, contributing guidance on administrative ethics through a decade of School Administrator Ethical Educator columns, and launching state-of-the-art virtual learning and instructional innovations. He has authored numerous book chapters, articles, policy reports, and op-eds, and has presented nationally and internationally on educational issues and innovations. He is the author of three books-Implementing social-emotional learning: Insights from districts' successes and setbacks (2023), The Ethical Educator: Pointers and Pitfalls for School Administrators (2022, with Joyce A. Barnes and David B. Rubin), and Children's Social Consciousness and the Development of Social Responsibility (1997)-and the co-editor of Promising Practices in Teaching Social Responsibility (1993, with Phyllis LaFarge). Retired as a district superintendent, he is currently the AASA Lead Superintendent for Social-Emotional Learning and serves as a Professor of Practice at the University of Oregon, College of Education. Luvelle Brown, Ed.D., is superintendent of the Ithaca City School District in Ithaca, NY. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member at SUNY Cortland and St. John Fisher College, both in New York. His recent work has been recognized through the 2022 AASA Humanitarian Award and the 2020 New York State Council of School Superintendents Appreciation Award. Other major accomplishments include being selected in 2017 as the New York State Superintendent of the Year and in 2021 to a seat on Learning 2025: National Commission on Student-Centered, Equity-Focused Education. A sought-after speaker for regional and national conferences, he was invited to be a featured speaker at President Barack Obama's National Superintendents Summit at the White House in 2014. Active in professional organizations, he has served on the New York State Council of School Superintendents Executive Committee, the AASA Digital Consortium, the Center for Digital Education Advisory Council, and CoSN's Empowered Superintendent Advisory Panel. A prolific contributor to education journals and blogs, he is the author of the acclaimed 2018 book Culture of Love: Cultivating a Positive and Transformational Organizational Culture. His community involvement is reflected in his 2018 appointment to the Ithaca College Board of Trustees, his recognition as the 2019 Tompkins County (NY) Distinguished Citizen, and his role as co-founder of 100 Black Men of Central Virginia.