Daniel A. Domenech has served as Executive Director of the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) since July 2008. Mr. Domenech has more than 36 years of experience in public education, 27 of those years serving as a school superintendent. Prior to joining AASA, Mr. Domenech served as Senior Vice President for National Urban Markets with McGraw-Hill Education. In this role, he was responsible for building strong relationships with large school districts nationwide. Prior to his position at McGraw-Hill, Mr. Domenech served for seven years as superintendent of the Fairfax County, Va., Public School District, the 12th-largest school system in the nation with 168,000 students. Mr. Domenech, an AASA member since 1979, served as President of AASA from July 1998 to June 1999. He is also a past President of the New York State Council of School Superintendents, the Suffolk County Superintendents Association, and the Suffolk County Organization for Promotion of Education. He was the first president and co-founder of the New York State Association for Bilingual Education. In addition, Mr. Domenech has served on the U.S. Department of Education’s National Assessment Governing Board; the advisory board for the Department of Defense schools; the Board of Directors of the Association for the Advancement of International Education; the Board of Overseers for the Baldrige Award; and the boards of the Center for Naval Analyses, Institute for Educational Leadership, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, National Student Clearinghouse, Sea Research Foundation, and Education Policy Institute. Currently, he serves on the National Comprehensive Center Advisory Board and the boards of the Learning First Alliance, Horace Mann Educators Corporation, ACT, and USAC (administers the E-Rate), and he is board chair for Communities in Schools of Virginia. Mr. Domenech earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College in New York City and a Ph.D. from Hofstra University in Uniondale, N.Y.
Getting Back to School:
Event Overview
Educators now face the challenge of planning to safely restart the school year this fall, in an environment in which state and local resources may be severely cut, and federal guidelines and resources are uncertain. How should schools go about reopening their doors while protecting the health of students and educators, and serving the most in-need and traumatized children?
Research and industry experts suggest that districts with strong labor-management collaboration and community engagement are better able to improve their schools and serve diverse student needs. Going forward, collaborative problem solving within and among school districts will be essential to finding operational solutions that can balance safety, equity of access for all children, and budgetary constraints, while addressing the needs of working parents.
What You'll Learn
- The essential requirements for — and the complexities surrounding — safe working and learning conditions in schools
- The challenges of rural and urban school districts in meeting the needs of all students
- The role of teachers and administrators in engaging community and government support for operating schools in changing, uncertain economic and social environments
- Models for labor-management collaboration and how these strategies might be adapted to resolve school reopening issues
Speakers
John McCarthy received his Ph.D. from the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. Prior to joining Cornell’s ILR School, he was a Visiting Doctoral Student and the Northrop Grumman Research Fellow at The Wharton School as well as a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Undertaken in the context of U.S. public schools, Professor McCarthy’s primary research streams focus on how empowering workplace institutions, including labor-management partnerships, affects outcomes such as employee well-being, turnover, and performance. His research appears or is forthcoming in leading peer-reviewed journals, including ILR Review, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations. His scholarship has also been cited by two Supreme Court cases, namely Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association (2015) and Janus v. AFSCME (2018).
John W. Sipple joined the Department of Developmental Sociology in the summer of 2011 after 13 years in Cornell’s Department of Education. He has focused his research interests on the responses of public school districts and communities to changes in state and federal policy. Central to Professor Sipple’s work are issues of community and organizational change and how they relate to fiscal, demographic, and learning opportunities for students across racial, socioeconomic, and geographic lines. He teaches courses on the organizational, social, and political contexts of community vitality and the U.S. educational system.
Randi Weingarten is the president of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, a union of 1.7 million teachers; paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; local, state and federal government employees; and early-childhood educators.
Before her election as AFT president in 2008, Ms. Weingarten served for 11 years as president of the United Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 2, representing approximately 200,000 educators in the New York City public school system as well as home childcare providers and other workers in health, law, and education.
Ms. Weingarten was included in Washingtonian’s 2021 Washington’s Most Influential People, and in 2013 the New York Observer named her one of the most influential New Yorkers of the past 25 years. She holds degrees from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Cardozo School of Law.
Daniel A. Domenech has served as Executive Director of the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) since July 2008. Mr. Domenech has more than 36 years of experience in public education, 27 of those years serving as a school superintendent. Prior to joining AASA, Mr. Domenech served as Senior Vice President for National Urban Markets with McGraw-Hill Education. In this role, he was responsible for building strong relationships with large school districts nationwide. Prior to his position at McGraw-Hill, Mr. Domenech served for seven years as superintendent of the Fairfax County, Va., Public School District, the 12th-largest school system in the nation with 168,000 students. Mr. Domenech, an AASA member since 1979, served as President of AASA from July 1998 to June 1999. He is also a past President of the New York State Council of School Superintendents, the Suffolk County Superintendents Association, and the Suffolk County Organization for Promotion of Education. He was the first president and co-founder of the New York State Association for Bilingual Education. In addition, Mr. Domenech has served on the U.S. Department of Education’s National Assessment Governing Board; the advisory board for the Department of Defense schools; the Board of Directors of the Association for the Advancement of International Education; the Board of Overseers for the Baldrige Award; and the boards of the Center for Naval Analyses, Institute for Educational Leadership, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, National Student Clearinghouse, Sea Research Foundation, and Education Policy Institute. Currently, he serves on the National Comprehensive Center Advisory Board and the boards of the Learning First Alliance, Horace Mann Educators Corporation, ACT, and USAC (administers the E-Rate), and he is board chair for Communities in Schools of Virginia. Mr. Domenech earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College in New York City and a Ph.D. from Hofstra University in Uniondale, N.Y.
John McCarthy received his Ph.D. from the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. Prior to joining Cornell’s ILR School, he was a Visiting Doctoral Student and the Northrop Grumman Research Fellow at The Wharton School as well as a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Undertaken in the context of U.S. public schools, Professor McCarthy’s primary research streams focus on how empowering workplace institutions, including labor-management partnerships, affects outcomes such as employee well-being, turnover, and performance. His research appears or is forthcoming in leading peer-reviewed journals, including ILR Review, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations. His scholarship has also been cited by two Supreme Court cases, namely Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association (2015) and Janus v. AFSCME (2018).
John W. Sipple joined the Department of Developmental Sociology in the summer of 2011 after 13 years in Cornell’s Department of Education. He has focused his research interests on the responses of public school districts and communities to changes in state and federal policy. Central to Professor Sipple’s work are issues of community and organizational change and how they relate to fiscal, demographic, and learning opportunities for students across racial, socioeconomic, and geographic lines. He teaches courses on the organizational, social, and political contexts of community vitality and the U.S. educational system.
Randi Weingarten is the president of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, a union of 1.7 million teachers; paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; local, state and federal government employees; and early-childhood educators.
Before her election as AFT president in 2008, Ms. Weingarten served for 11 years as president of the United Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 2, representing approximately 200,000 educators in the New York City public school system as well as home childcare providers and other workers in health, law, and education.
Ms. Weingarten was included in Washingtonian’s 2021 Washington’s Most Influential People, and in 2013 the New York Observer named her one of the most influential New Yorkers of the past 25 years. She holds degrees from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Cardozo School of Law.
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