A golden opportunity is being created for 40 educators with principal certificates who want to become principals in the Chicago public schools. The School Board is funding the internships. However, a new master's degree program offered through Northwestern's Total Quality Schools office also offers training in management and education. The Reform Board picks up half their tuition. During the school year, students work in teams of six on projects such as drafting budgets and writing school improvement plans.
CALL employs retired principals as professors and mentors.
The CALL internship is unpaid and does not include a job title. You're certainly putting this group of people on the fast track. Meanwhile, Ron Areglado, an associate executive director at the National Association of Elementary School Principals, likes the internship. Principals who enter into a preparation program often just get a lot of theoretical information. I'm willing to bet that not 10 percent of those doing the training have ever been a principal.