The University of Texas at Tyler will offer a Summer Principal's Institute June 24-29, Dr. Mil Clark, dean of the College of Education and Psychology, has announced. Dr. Timothy Jones, assistant professor of educational administration, will serve as director of the institute titled Restructuring Schools for the 21st Century. This year's institute will provide invigorating professional growth opportunities for practicing principals leading to reform in their schools that will result in enhanced academic performance of all students. The institute is limited to 20 currently practicing principals who are nominated by their superintendents.
Superintendents also participate in the weeklong event.
Numerous experts are scheduled to make presentations including Dr. Geoffrey Caine of the Caine Learning Center in Idyllwild, California. Working with and through leadership teams, principals build learning communities within their schools and engage the broader school community in creating and achieving a compelling vision for their schools, he added. A significant number of students are, and will remain, at risk, especially in minority and low socio-economic groups, unless schools are restructured into centers of excellence that can respond specifically to individual student needs.