ABSTRACT
I had the pleasure of meeting Sheldon Berman (known as Shelley to his colleagues) when I spent four days visiting Hudson public schools where he has been superintendent for the last ten years. Under Berman’s dedicated and inspiring leadership, and with a team of outstanding administrators and teachers, Hudson has proven to be a showcase of authentic school improvement based on the development of community, caring, and social responsibility discussed in this chapter. Shelley is one of the founders and a former president of Educators for Social Responsibility and a former president of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents. He is the coeditor of Promising Practices in Teaching Social Responsibility and author of Children’s Social Consciousness. In 2003, he was selected as Massachusetts Superintendent of the Year.
