This three-day summer institute provides potential school administrators an opportunity to develop leadership skills and an awareness of the knowledge and skills necessary to be a successful secondary school principal. The program was developed in response to the statewide need to develop qualified applicants for school-level administrative positions. Participants are mainly teachers with recognized leadership ability who may have an interest in becoming a secondary school principal. The program is interactive and focuses on developing leadership capacity and the personal qualities and operational skills needed by today's principal. It includes such topics as school reform, dealing with increasingly diverse student populations, instructional leadership, crisis management, and more.
Participants hear from the experts and interact with practicing principals.
This year's program is scheduled for June 19-21, 2001. Teachers, policy makers, researchers and educational leaders participate in this two-day event. Participants hear from and interact with experts who work on the cutting edge of the complex issues surrounding standards and accountability. Leading researchers provide an array of perspectives, and participants engage in small group dialogue in response to questions raised by these perspectives. It provides an opportunity to hear from education professors and researchers in MSU's Education Policy Center and College of Education who provide vital, non-partisan information on the critical issues.