Happy April! I hope you have all taken time to vote for a new co-chair for the Coordinators Network. With this election, my time as a co-chair will come to an end. I wanted to take a moment to say thank you to each and every one of you that I have had the privilege of working with and representing as a co-chair for the Coordinators Network over the last five years. I have enjoyed watching all the positive growth that is occurring for coordinators – from a week to celebrate how awesome we are, to having a voice in areas we didn’t have a voice before. It has been a true honor to be able to help in this movement. I leave this position though knowing that the best is yet to come. I cannot wait to see all the new barriers this Network will continue to take down. Thank you for an amazing five years!

For years Deanna Hron has embraced the whole child approach. Now, she is a rising community school leader in Deer River, MN. Read about Hron's notable transition from educator to coordinator, and her quest to highlight rural community schools in this month’s Coordinator Spotlight .