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Harvard Principals’ Consortium
Summer 2008

Background:

The Principals’ Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education is an organization dedicated to the personal and professional development of school principals and the many other stakeholders who crucially influence the character and quality of schools. The Principals’ Center is offering a demanding and rewarding Institute planned for summer 2008. The Institute has assembled an outstanding cadre of Harvard faculty, educational consultants, and school practitioners for an intensive eight-day of professional development. The Institute, “Leadership: An Evolving Vision” will be held in July 10 – July 18, 2008.  The institute is designed to refine and strengthen the skills necessary for effective school leadership. The benefits of attending are:

• Investigate ways to transform theory into practice for improving student achievement.
• Develop the instructional leadership and management skills necessary for today’s complex educational environment.
• Learn how to effectively support staff as they work on school improvement efforts.
• Learn how to implement and evaluate curriculum innovations.
• Consider the importance of student identity in creating a climate and achievement for all students.
• Examine the foundations of successful negotiation.
• Explore ways to collaborate with outside organizations and use current resources more effective.

The Institute includes a variety of teaching and learning formats to ensure that participants derive the maximum benefit from their interactions with faculty and each other. This structure includes:

• Large group presentations
• Follow-up activities
• Process groups
• Reflective Writing
• Independent reading
• Team building

Purpose:

To raise student achievement through effective leadership development programs ensuring that school administrators are exposed to current strategies, resources and support that will maximize their chance for success.

Strategy:

The New York State Education Department (SED) will award competitive grants to appointed Principals from Title I Schools to attend the Harvard Principals’ Center’s Leadership: An Evolving Vision. The Title I schools must be:

• Charter Schools;
• Schools Under Registration Review (SURR);
• Schools In Need of Improvement (SINI) and/or;
• Schools participating in the School Quality Review Initiative (SQRI)

Grant Awards:

The New York State Education Department (SED) will award six (6) grants in the amount of
$6,380 per Principal.  As follows:

• Tuition:  $3,195. (includes all sessions, instructional materials, special events, refreshments and a one-year membership in The Principals’ Center).
• Accommodation: $2,848. (The Charles Hotel for 8 nights = $356. per night, this amount includes taxes, gratuity and daily breakfast).
•  Travel and meals Expenses: $337.

Application Due Date:         

Post marked or hand delivered no later than April 1st, 2008.

Application Mailing:

Completed cover page, program narrative, superintendent’s statement of assurance, Principal’s statement of assurance, application (including requested essay) and FS-10 budget form must be submitted and postmarked by April 1st, 2008 to the New York State Education Department’s address listed below:

Cassandra Grant
New York State Education Department
Office of School Improvement and Community Services (NYC)
55 Hanson Place – Room 400
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Postmark Deadline: April 1st, 2008
Facsimile transmission will not be accepted

APPLICATION (In Word)
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