Needham Public Schools Superintendent's Blog

I have never been very good at developing—never mind sharing—New Year’s resolutions. I like to think that if I want to or need to change so...

A day or two before the Thanksgiving holiday I paid a brief visit to each one of the elementary classrooms to extend best wishes to each cla...

I shared the following remarks at the Needham Steps Up Benefit at the Sheraton on October 7 th : Several years ago I beg...

Believe it or not, the Needham School Committee and school administration are gearing up for a new budget season. While one budget year con...

A recent TIME magazine lamented the lazy days of summer for children, observing that a two-month reprieve from books, classes, and testing i...

At approximately noon on Sunday, May 17th in Washington, D.C. my wife and I officially became parents of a college graduate for the first ti...

When I first became a high school principal years ago my superintendent, Anthony Bent, told me: “Daniel, the most important w...