Until then, my sleeves are rolled up because we still have work to do," Cassellius wrote in her letter. Charlene has a way of coaching Brenda, says the former Minnesota Department of Education official. She paralyzes the organization through her incoherence, another former official says. Cassellius had been on the job less than a year when schools closed, but I don't think Cassellius' response helped build trust among parents in the district. Cassellius came to Boston less than a year before the pandemic began,. Do the windows open at the central office? I asked. On July 22, less than a week after the principals letter was made public, Cassellius appeared, via Zoom, before the school committee to present a draft of BPSs reopening plan. While the nation tunes in tonight to hear the When you are really smart and your mind is moving a lot, sometimes you have to take the time to pause and hear from others., Carol Johnson saw both promise and room for growth in Cassellius. The Supreme Court is hearing the Harvard admissions discrimination case, which could effectively end affirmative action. Cassellius has come to Lee this morning to check on the work being done inside the cafeteriaa space as wide and tall as a gymnasiumwhere a dozen or so chefs are busily prepping packaged meals and bags of groceries. It seemed, to some principals, like she was trying to fix the high schools with a magic wand. And that was before the pandemic hit, turning the district and her job upside down. 2022 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Together, we can create a more connected and informed world. Last but not the Cassellius made the announcement in a letter to parents, students and. Dr. Lisa Sayles-Adams is the current superintendent of Eastern Carver County Schools in Chaska, MN. There wasnt anything particularly unusual about the planit called for rotating cohorts of students to attend school two days a week while teachers used a combination of Web-based and in-person instruction. Cassellius loves playing hockey and water skiing. She also served as a principal in the states of Minnesota and Georgia. She came under fire from some parents and teachers for her efforts to reopen the schools for in-person last fall. When [Casselliuss predecessor] Laura Perille was in front of an audience of children, she seemed stiff, the official says. Then, throughout the day, the students would shuttle between buildings on a train. However, she was Carol Johnson's chief of staff, a former superintendent. That's not out-front administration. 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In a 5-2 vote, the Boston School Committee selected to appoint former Minnesota's Commissioner of Education Dr. Brenda Cassellius as their next Superintendent Wednesday. A lot of the most energetic discussion have been around the admissions policies of the city's top three exam schools. This is not a new problem in Boston, having a superintendent leave. In meetings, she often broke down in tears and said she felt overwhelmed, according to three people who witnessed these episodes. Her heart is in the right place and I believe deeply she is a good person, says a former BPS official. Tell us what she really thinks of the joke of a school committee and the oversized influence of the powerful teachers union. Joe Nathan / Jun 2002 - Aug 20031 year 3 months. By then Cassellius had earned a reputation for being full of energy and big ideas. Then she reflected. If you're a scraper, please click the link below :-) 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. In one light, Cassellius looks like the ideal person for that mission. She has one of the highest-stakes jobs in Boston, and the second-hardest job in the city after mayor, one source told me. She quickly won jobs as a teacher, assistant principal, and then principal of a middle school, after Carol Johnson (who would later serve as BPS superintendent) hired Cassellius to work in the Memphis school district where she was superintendent. It was the early 70s and people werent too nice to biracial children., Cassellius started her career as a special-education paraprofessional and soon rocketed up the ranks. Cassellius will likely be muzzled under a non-disclosure agreement when she leaves, but it would be nice if she spilled details of her brief time as superintendent on the way out. Cassellius insists she will still be that leader, as long as the city will let her. Here's why. She's super smart. And I started to do things where it wasnt just my idea, but everybodys idea.. Cassellius recently penned a column for The Washington Post about the teacher and staffing shortage plaguing the schools. On Wednesday, when asked whether she's still thinking about changes to the admissions process for exam schools, Cassellius indicated she is no longer considering changes. Its been, what? what does seats not included mean on hopperthe hardy family acrobats 26th February 2023 / in was forest whitaker in batteries not included / by / in was forest whitaker in batteries not included / by She has said to me that she hires people based on familiarity and trust, says Edith Bazile, a former president of the Black Educators Alliance of Massachusetts who has worked closely with Cassellius on a volunteer basis. Brenda Cassellius, David Esquith, Minnesota State University Mankato, PACER Center, School Safety Technical Assistance Center, US Department of Education Office of Safe and Healthy Students, Walter Roberts / 0 Comments, The following column originally was published by ECM Publications Helping students be safer at school By Joe Nathan on February 10, 2016 at 2:03 pm Joe Nathan David Esquith shares one of the deepest concerns parents have: I worry about a call from the school that my kid got hurt. Its important that Esquith understands, [], Joe Nathan / In mid-summer, City Hall and school committee officials called several current and former BPS staffers. I paused. So I would say, keep an eye on Rachel Skerritt. What are their intentions and motives? Cassellius has been Boston's school superintendent since July 2019. BOSTON (CBS) - Boston Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Brenda Cassellius is resigning at the end of the school year. It began when the new superintendent came to town. 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. It was so fun to see Tou again in new employee orientation A bitter irony of 2020 is that even if you believe, as Casselliuss critics do, that she mismanaged the coronavirus response, it is not clear how much it mattered. I dont like to criticize people for crying because its often a form of sexism, says a current BPS official. ", 'Heartbroken' by the tragedy of war, a Ukrainian opera singer performs in Belmont, Healey's proposed budget a boon to education and the environment, Senate confirms first Hispanic judge to Massachusetts federal court, The woman who introduced MLK Jr. and Coretta Scott lies in an unmarked grave in Boston, The civil rights memorials that expose America's ugly history and warn of repeating the past. The combination of all of these measures made principals heads spin. In a letter to "the BPS community" this morning, Mayor Wu said she, School Committee Chairwoman Jeri Robinson and Cassellius decided it was time for Cassellius to move on. In the summer, McChrystal Group, a consultancy that has worked with the mayor at City Hall, began running Casselliuss weekly coronavirus update calls with principals. Subordinates would scramble to respond to her proposals, pulling staff away from the business of running the school district. 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 Let's focus on Marty Walsh, and the instability in the Boston Public Schools is clearly Marty Walsh's fault. 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. Her mother's name is unknown, as well as her father's. Brenda graduated from high school in Minnesota and went onto the University of Minnesota-Twin City, where she earned a bachelor's psychology degree. They were tracking COVID, and it was the parents that forced the closure of the school. The. Her driving passion, equity, seemed to make her a perfect fit for a district where inequality in academic outcomes is glaring. BOSTON (WHDH) - Teachers and parents were left stunned on Tuesday when Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius mistakenly said certain students with high needs could return to. The people I spoke to who had no inside knowledge. Working with educators, parents, business people, students, policy-makers and other concerned people throughout the United States. But mostly the Boston Latin School. Cassellius had the political acumen necessary to be successful in Boston and also understood the critical role of educational equity and the needs of Black and brown students, as well as low-income students and English-language learners.. It was chaos, says a current BPS official. What's the mood among parents and students over this announcement? The Boston Public School Committee is expected to sign a separation agreement Wednesday to give Cassellius at least $311,000, the Boston Herald reported. What they heard was troubling: Cassellius lacked strong executive leadership and strategic planning skills. The problem, Casselliuss critics alleged, was that it arrived too late and too light on details. COVID was an incredible challenge. Brenda ignored all of that, a former official says. They cant see how to get it done, and she hasnt shown them the steps along the way.. They did not. Superintendent Dr. Brenda Cassellius will leave her post at the end of the school year. Once we got settled in a classroom at the school, Cassellius told me about her life. A mother who did not want to give her name to WBZ-TV said she was glad to see Cassellius leaving. 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Parents have seen at least a decade of turmoil, as you said, with a revolving door of superintendents and interim superintendents. Cassellius, who was pursuing several jobs at the time, said she felt especially drawn to the Hub. This button displays the currently selected search type. Hi, Wellington. Then, as a superintendent for the first time, she briefly led a two-school district. Brenda Cassellius, Carlton Jenkins, Equal Opportunity Schools, Higher Ground Academy, Hopkins Public Schools, Minnesota Department of Education, Steve Massey, Zena Stenvik / 0 Comments, http://hometownsource.com/2016/03/09/joe-nathan-column-massive-misunderstanding-or-classic-bait-and-switch/ The following column originally was published by ECM Publications Massive misunderstanding or classic bait and switch By Joe Nathan on March 9, 2016 at 5:27 pm Joe Nathan The Minnesota Department of Education wisely passed on an offer recently that represented, in part, a massive misunderstanding and, in part, a classic bait and switch. []. BOSTON Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius will resign at the end of the school year. Follow us so you don't miss a thing! But hearing it 49 days before the school year starts doesnt give you much hope., The teachers union also criticized the plan, calling it totally out of touch with reality. In the midst of the pandemic, a teachers union taking a shot at a superintendent should be as shocking as an April snowstorm in Boston. With the backing of the teachers union, community activists, and Mayor Walsh, she won the job in May 2019, with a 52 vote from the school committee. 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. Here's what she said at a press conference the day after announcing Cassellius' departure. If she appeared harried outside, coming off her meetings and calls, she is now something much closer to jubilant. Give us details on her relationship with former Mayor Marty Walsh and current Mayor Michelle Wu. When I told Josh Collins, Casselliuss former spokesman at the Minnesota Department of Education, about Casselliuss troubles in Boston, he said some of the dynamics sounded familiar. Leading for equity, Dr.. As we left Lee K-8, Casselliuss aide invited me back to the BPS central office for an interview. Sorry to keep you waiting, she says. Henry Santoro: Meg, let's start with you. She was just four months into her job as superintendent and had a bold idea she wanted to share. Listen Live: Classic and Contemporary Celtic, Listen Live: Cape, Coast and Islands NPR Station, Meg Woolhouse and Peter Kadzis on Morning Edition | Feb. 11, 2022, Boston Globe/Boston Globe via Getty Images, "Wu understands that the next super needs the trust of students, their parents and Boston teachers to really hit the ground running. She came under fire from some parents and teachers for her efforts to reopen the schools for in-person last fall. She does not have a day to spend on me. With help from the Minnesota Department of Education and Target, we have completed new videos that are in 7 languages: Hmong, Somali, Arabic, Karen, Dakota, English and Spanish. But with Brenda, one former official says, word came down that if your presentation was more than a few slides, you would lose her.. Back in Minneapolis, she served as an associate superintendent from 2007 to 2010, overseeing high school principals. Whats more, there was no train running along the parks length. We had all this wind under our wings, she says. How much influence and interference did they really have on her and how the schools are run? One day in 2004, Johnson walked into Casselliuss office to offer her the biggest promotion of her life. 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. Their children are Christian Michel, Charles Justice, and Ani Grace. We talked about that challenge routinely, he said. When she arrived here in the spring of 2019, she inherited a system plagued by underperforming schools, yawning achievement gaps between Black and white students, decrepit infrastructure, and a distrustful relationship with the community it must serve. Just to cite one example, she's run through four chiefs of staff in two years. Support GBH. Trying to keep the union appeased and keeping the schools open during the coronavirus pandemic had to be a difficult job for Cassellius. Santoro: This is for both of you has her response to the pandemic been welcomed? But they found her methods strange. Does the union get to dictate policy? 2017 columns, Charter schools, Columns (J. Nathan), Dual HS/College Credit, PSEO / Brenda runs down the aisle giving high-fives and the kids eat it up. He had a flawed first search for a superintendent. Thats exactly what Boston needed, says Tanisha Sullivan, president of the Boston chapter of the NAACP. 2016 columns / And in that time, building improvements and academic improvements have been promised, but not met. 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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. In a couple of hours, Boston Public Schools families will begin lining up at the door of the school, which has been turned into a food-distribution site. Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius will step down from her position as the district's chief executive in June a decision that Mayor Michelle Wu described on Monday as. Photo by Matt Kalinowski. 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. Nor could the surrounding city blocks, which encompassed some of Bostons most expensive and densely populated neighborhoods. 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. You can do this. Speaking to a room full of staffers and principals, she explained her vision for the next generation of Bostons high schools. 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. In our conversations, Cassellius seemed to ask for two things: time and skepticism of her critics. Massachusetts could get another snowstorm Friday: What areas were the jackpot zones in this past storm? Santoro: Meg, it seems clear that parents want and actually need a level of stability considering the pandemic, the turnover of superintendents. (Second-hardest job in the country after president, another said.) 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The move would have rendered Cassellius virtually a figurehead, still nominally in control of the district, but with many core responsibilities removed from her portfolio. (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.). She did not say why she is leaving. Seven, or eight, or nine superintendents in a relatively short period of time? But its more than that. 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. She worked her way up from teacher to assistant principal to associate. Minnesota education commissioner, Brenda Cassellius, and former Anchorage, Alaska superintendent, Ed Graff, are the two finalists for Minneapolis's school superintendent position, according a May 13 press release. To some, the practical barriers to implementing the plan seemed nearly insurmountable. She envisioned that when students arrived in the morning, they would receive a playlist of programs available at each of the schools, according to BPS officials with knowledge of the plan. OK, you didn't have all your credentials right in the first place!". 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. As CFO Nate Kuder completed a preview of the public budget presentation he would give in February, Cassellius proposed an idea. The Boston School Committee has voted to confirm Brenda Cassellius a career educator who rose from paraprofessional to state commissioner, mostly in Minnesota as the next superintendent of. 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. Join us. MS Word MS WORDPDF PDFView FileMS WordFebruary 16, 2012Dr. Brenda married her partner in life Jason Cassellius, they lived together and had three children, Christian Michel, Ani Grace and Charles Justice. Dr. Brenda Cassellius has spent three decades as an educator devoted to helping all children succeed and thrive. This memorial website was created in memory of Brenda D Cassellius-W, 35, born on December 31, 1972 and passed away on April 29, 2008. Henry Santoro hosts midday newscasts on GBH Radio and contributes to breaking news coverage and other hosting duties for GBHs daytime programming. Cassellius has faced criticism for allowing her administrator's license to lapse. The superintendent was about to go into a meeting and she was falling apart, the official says. The Boston School Committee announced last week that Dr. Brenda Cassellius will serve as Boston's next superintendent. I had never met with a school superintendent, says Matthew Thompson, pastor of Jubilee Christian Church in Mattapan, the biggest Protestant church in New England. 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. Casselliuss staffers were stunned that she believed it was possible to shut down two school buildings in a matter of weeks, when that process normally took years. Tanisha Sullivan, president of Bostons NAACP chapter and a member of the districts exam schools working group had called the move a historic and positive, transformative mark on our city.. Brenda Cassellius. The Boston School Committee extended their agreement in June 2021, reports WGBH. 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. And that's really taken up all the air in the room, so to speak. However, on Tuesday Dr. Cassellius sent her letter of resignation to Mayor Michelle Wu and Boston School Committee Chair Jeri Robinson. Everythings smooth and working great. Then, almost speaking to herself, she adds, Because in my life, its not like that every day.. Share Your Memories and Sympathies and Join the Bereaved! 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. As the students offered suggestionsfree menstrual products, cleaner bathrooms, improved ventilationCassellius had her executives take notes. [], Joe Nathan / "It does make for a difficult start to the day," she said. The swiftness of criticism, she told me, and the willingness to condemn, its something uniquely Boston. We have $36 million outside of the normal cost.. The column gave a good glimpse of some of the real problems facing school systems like Boston. This button displays the currently selected search type. Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments ? 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