Leadership

The authors of Schools Need Good Leaders Now said it well: “We need ‘learning-centered’ school principals—leaders who have a deep understanding of how students learn, not simply how to run a school.” We concur, and through the national Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate the Curry School has already begun developing state-of-the-art degree programs responsive to the needs of school leaders. These new leaders will be prepared to deliver innovations, manage change in school systems, and increase student achievement.

The Curry School and the Darden Graduate School of Business have collaborated for several years on the Partnership for Leaders in Education, an innovative program that brings state and district education administrators to the University for training. Within the next two years, with your Campaign support, we can meet demands for executive education and develop summer certificate programs for chief academic officers and other school district senior staff. 

We will continue to collaborate with the Darden School and develop relationships with the School of Law, the McIntire School of Commerce, and the School of Medicine to design and deliver the very best programs in executive education, making the Curry School and the University of Virginia a national model.