Behind every great superintendent or principal is an equally strong leadership team — and K-12 Dive wants to share their stories in our fifth annual Rising Leaders spotlight of 10 exceptional assistant principals and district leaders.
Do you have an assistant principal who goes the extra mile to make students and staff feel supported? Do you know an assistant superintendent who’s always looking to the future in terms of how curriculum, technology or operations could be improved? We want to hear about them.
K-12 Dive will be collecting nominations through the end of June. And then later this summer, we’ll unveil the selected assistant principals and assistant superintendents. We’re looking forward to spotlighting their successes.
And since we know titles vary from school to school and district to district, consider nominating worthy candidates with titles like these:
- Assistant principal.
- Associate principal.
- Vice principal.
- Assistant superintendent.
- Associate superintendent.
- Chief information officer.
- Director of IT.
- Chief communications officer.
- Director of student services.
- Director of special education.
- Director of curriculum.
- Chief academic officer.
- Director of facilities.
Take a look back at last year’s honorees, and don’t forget to submit your nominees for 2025-26 here.
Dive Awards
