Last week I had the opportunity to visit Meriden Public Schools in Connecticut with four other administrators from my school district. There is a lot of pride in this town and school community. I don't know if I have ever felt more welcomed anywhere in my life. Dr. Mark Benigni and his staff pulled out all the stops on this trip by providing us with welcoming gifts, fantastic, unbelievable meals, comprehensive plans for every minute of each day, excellent resources to take

I have been in education for eleven years, and have experienced a wide variety of changes. Some have been enormous and had an impact on the entire system while others have been minuscule in the grand scheme of things. Something that I have come to realize in my seven years as a classroom teacher and four as an administrator is that the one constant in education and life, for that matter, is change. Whether it is a new curriculum, assessment system, alternative model of instru