6/9/2023
Cahn Fellows Provides Support for the District’s Most Valuable Players
Urban Life, Wash Park, By Melanie Ulle

2/17/2023
Keys to an Elementary School Turnaround,
Edutopia, By Elisa Brown, Cahn Fellow 2007

2/9/2023
Program teaches Chicago students financial literacy with real money,
WGN9 Chicago News, Julian Crews and Andrew Smith – Featuring Lisa Epstein’s school, Cahn Fellow 2017, Richard Henry Lee Elementary

1/10/2023
Book Release: The Six Priorities: How to Find the Resources your School Community Needs, Author Luis Torres, Cahn Fellow 2019

1/9/2023
How to Set Up a Bike Bus at Your School,
Edutopia, Emily Stutts – Featuring Rosa Amato’s school, Cahn Fellow 2020, P.S. 372, Brooklyn

12/2022 • Read
Life Lessons from Gettysburg, Preservation & Progress, Gettysburg Foundation, Brian Klinzing – Featuring Tim Jones, Cahn Fellow 2020

11/30/2022 • Read
This NYC School Is Narrowing the COVID Gap, Cision PR Newswire, The Writing Revolution – Featuring Anthony Cosentino, Cahn Fellow 2020

11/28/2022 • Read
‘All-hands-on-deck’: A Queens charter school welcomes 70 asylum-seeking students, Chalkbeat New York, Michael Elsen-Rooney – Featuring Franklin Headley, Cahn Fellow 2018

11/21/2022 • Read
Five-and-a-half years later: An update on Benteen Elementary School, WABE 90.1, Martha Dalton – Featuring Andrew Lovett, Cahn Fellow 2022

10/13/2021 • Read
Book Release: Encouragement for the School Leader’s Soul: A devotional for school leaders, Author Femi Skanes, Cahn Fellow 2016

8/30/2022 • Read
Former principal at MPHS leading growth of program, The Beverly Review, Kyle Garmes – Featuring Femi Skanes, Cahn Fellow 2015

8/8/2022 • Read
Dr. Macario Hernandez Named First Chief of Staff, UNT Dallas – Featuring Macario Hernandez, Cahn Fellow 2021

7/24/2022 • Read
The Sneaker Principal Podcast: NYC Chancellor David C. Banks – Uche Njoku, Cahn Fellow 2021 interviews Chancellor David Banks, Cahn Fellow 2003

6/30/2022 • Read
Laurene Powell Jobs’ XQ is backing 2 new NYC high schools, Chalkbeat New York, Alex Zimmerman – Featuring Moses Ojeda, Cahn Fellow 2017

6/2022 • Read
U.S Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield visits University Heights Secondary School – Featuring Hazel Joseph-Roseboro, Cahn Fellow 2021

5/6/2022 • Read
TEDxBronx – Theme: IGNITED – Featuring Luis Torres, Cahn Fellow 2019

5/5/2022 • Read
Students design, build and install solar panels in program at NYC high school, Eyewitness News ABC 7, Brittany Bell – Featuring Moses Ojeda, Cahn Fellow 2017

5/4/2022 • Read
Meet the Denver principal who wants gifted education in every classroom, Chalkbeat Colorado, Ann Schimke – Featuring Sheldon Reynolds, Cahn Fellow 2020

5/2022 • Read
School for Advanced Studies (SAS), Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Named #4 High School in National Rankings, U.S. News and World Report – Featuring Omar Monteagudo, Cahn Fellow 2021

5/2022 • Read
High School for Excellence and Innovation – A Way to Thrive, CBS News, Jessie Mitchell – Featuring Tyona Washington, Cahn Fellow 2015

5/2022 • Read
Chancellor David Banks, Kevin Love (Cleveland Cavaliers NBA) and David Solomon (CEO Goldman Sachs) engaged in a 15-minute cooking challenge with top-performing FFHS students.

4/25/2022 • Read
Staten Island Principal Honored as Secondary Principal of the Year, School Administrators Association of New York State – Featuring Mark Erlenwein, Cahn Fellow 2018

4/14/2022 • Read
Denver Public Schools Leader Named 2022 Colorado Outstanding Elementary Principal of the Year, Colorado Association of School Executives – Featuring Sheldon Reynolds, Cahn Fellow 2020

4/4/2022 • Read
Cahn Fellows Shine a Bright Light on Excellence in School Leadership, Associated Administrators of Los Angeles – Featuring Dr. Lisa Dach-Ornelas, Cahn Fellow 2021

4/3/2022 • Read
How a Staten Island elementary school embraced flexibility to help students recover from the pandemic, New York Daily News, Michael Elsen-Rooney – Featuring Anthony Cosentino, Cahn Fellow 2020

3/28/2022 • Read
AALA’s SHINING STARS, Associated Administrators of Los Angeles – Featuring Nidia Castro, Cahn Fellow 2021

3/17/2022 • Read
Queens high school is one of 12 in U.S. teaching about cybersecurity and the military, Chalkbeat, New York, Reema Amin – Featuring Moses Ojeda, Cahn Fellow 2017

2/24/2022
Sonia Loskot: Inspired to Make an Impact and Changing the Trajectory of Students, Dallas Doing Good, Jan Osborn – Featuring Sonia Loskot, Cahn Fellow 2019

2/16/2022 • Read
Denver elementary wants to preserve its right to innovate, Boardhawk, T. Michael Boddie – Featuring Sheldon Reynolds, Cahn Fellow 2020

2/9/2022 • Read
NYC students learn about renewable energy through school rooftop solar panel installations, Daily News, Michael Elsen-Rooney – Featuring Moses Ojeda, Cahn Fellow 2017

10/21/2021 • Read
U.S. Secretary of Education Announces Recipients of the 2021 Terrel H. Bell Awards for Outstanding School Leadership, Congratulations to Elisa Brown, Cahn Fellow 2007

Read • The Impact of Principal Attrition and Replacement on Indicators of School Quality – Boston University

9/29/2021 • Read
Janice Jackson Named CEO of HOPE Chicago, Nonprofit Seeking To Provide $1B in Scholarships, WTTW, Matt Masterson – Featuring Janice Jackson, Cahn Fellow 2014

9/21/2021 • Read
Breaking Barriers: Redesigning High School for All Students – Featuring Rashid Davis, Cahn Fellow 2012

8/9/2021 • Read
NYC schools are getting 200 new murals. At this Bronx campus, painting provides connections after COVID’s isolation – Featuring Renny Fong, Cahn Fellow 2020, and Ron Link, Cahn Fellow 2017

Read • Grissom, Egalite, Lindsay (2021, April 4) What Great Principals Really Do, ASCD

Read • McDougald (2021, March 11) The principal effect: How school leaders affect students and schools, The Thomas B. Fordham Institute

3/9/2021 • Read
A Look Inside a Brooklyn Middle School, a Year After COVID-19 Hit, by Jillian Jorgensen, Spectrum News NY1 – Featuring Ailene Altman Mitchell, Cahn Fellow 2012

2/16/2021 • Read
Investing in Principals Offers Very Large Payoffs for Students And Teachers, Major New Research Review Finds – The Wallace Foundation

Read • Superville (2021, February 16) Top-Tier Principals Spark Big Gains in Student Learning. A New Study Shows How Much, Education Week

2/1/2021 • Read
In hard-hit Bronx, some schools are now giving rapid COVID tests to uncover positive cases, by Reema Amin, Chalkbeat.org – Featuring Luis Torres, Cahn Fellow 2019

Read • Grissom, Egalite, Lindsay (2021, February) How Principals Affect Students and Schools, Wallace

11/18/2020 • Read
The Fund for the City of New York announces their 2020 Sloan Public Service Award Winners – including Principal Peggy Wyns-Madison, Cahn Fellow 2012

11/10/2020 • Read
Students at NYC’s only public culinary high school find ways to keep cooking in the pandemic, by Colleen Connolly, Chalkbeat.org – The Food and Finance High School’s Principal is Roger Turgeon, Cahn Fellow 2015

10/21/2020 • Read
Just Pick the Pineapple: Building Trust in Turbulence, NASSP – by Allison Persad, Cahn Fellow 2019

10/13/2020 • Read
CPS Is Dramatically Expanding Gold Standard Bilingual Program. But Is It Putting The Funding — And Schools — In The Right Place? by Sarah Karp, WBEZ – Featuring Antonio Acevedo, Cahn Fellow 2019

10/13/2020 • Read
To Root Out Racism in Schools, Start With Who You Hire, by Denisa Superville, Education Week – Featuring Dawn DeCosta, Cahn Fellow 2015

8/26/2020 • Read
Florida’s Brady named as Administrator of the Year, JEA – Journalism Education Association, Erinn Harris, MJE, awards committee chair- Featuring Gary Brady, Cahn Fellow 2019

8/21/2020 • Read
“OVERWHELMED” AND “UNSUPPORTED,” 45 PERCENT OF PRINCIPALS SAY PANDEMIC CONDITIONS ARE ACCELERATING THEIR PLANS TO LEAVE THE PRINCIPALSHIP, National Association of Secondary School Principals

8/19/2020 • Read
Schools Will Never Return to Business as Usual. Here’s How They Can Make the Most of Our New Reality, by Diana Divecha and Robin Stern, EdSurge.com – Featuring Brooke Jackson, Cahn Fellow 2011 & Dawn DeCosta, Cahn Fellow 2015

8/18/2020 • Read
Families organize learning pods for their kids’ schooling mid-pandemic, by Adriana Diaz, CBS This Morning – Featuring Dr. Barbara McKeon, Cahn Fellow 2015

8/14/2020 • Read
N.Y.C. Schools Will Reopen in a Month. Principals Fear It’s Too Soon, by Eliza Shapiro, The New York Times – Featuring Alexa Sorden, Cahn Fellow 2018

8/14/2020 • Read
RULER’s Approach to Social Emotional Learning, by Shannon Maughan, Publishers Weekly – Featuring Dawn DeCosta, Cahn Fellow 2015

8/14/2020 • Read
The Mayor Is Ready for School to Open. The School Buildings Are Not, by Ginia Bellafante, The New York Times – Featuring Ailene Altman Mitchell, Cahn Fellow 2012

8/13/2020 • Read
Leadership in Crisis, by Joe Levine and Patricia Lamiell, Teachers College, Columbia University, Newsroom – Featuring Dr. Barbara McKeon, Cahn Fellow 2015

8/13/2020 • Read
Making School a Lifeline, by Patricia Lamiell, Teachers College, Columbia University, Newsroom – Featuring Crystal Jones, Cahn Fellow 2018

8/13/2020 • Read
Preserving the Human Interaction, by Steve Giegerich, Teachers College, Columbia University, Newsroom – Featuring Joshua Long, Cahn Fellow 2015

8/6/2020 • Read
Dialogue, Knowledge, Flexibility, by Joe Levine, Teachers College, Columbia University, Newsroom – Featuring Brett Schneider, Cahn Fellow 2019

7/1/2019 • Read
Principal Effectiveness and Principal Turnover, MIT Press Direct, Education Finance & Policy, Jason Grissom & Brendan Bartanen

11/1/2018 • Read
A High School Education and College Degree All in One – Featuring Rashid Davis, Cahn Fellow 2012

Read • New Teacher Center (2018, reissue of 2014 report) Churn: The High Cost of Principal Turnover

Read • How do Principals Influence Student Achievement Snapshot (2018, March) UChicago Consortium on School Research

Read • Bain (2016, October, 21) By the Numbers: Why Do Principals Matter, Bush Center

Read • The Impact Effective Principals Have on Education, Infographic (2014, March 5) Queens Online

Read • The Impact Effective Principals Have on Education, Infographic (2014, March 5) Queens Online – jpg

Read • Branch, Hanushek, Rivkin (2013) School Leaders Matter, Education Next

Read • Leadership Matters: What the Research Says About the Importance of Principal Leadership, 2013, National Association of Secondary School Principals and National Association of Elementary School Principals

Read • Role of Principal Leadership in Improving Student Achievement, Reading Rockets, The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement