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Research: Training New Principals
| College of Education
One hundred individuals in four Bay-area school districts will receive accelerated principal preparation training thanks to a $2.5 million grant awarded to the College of Education by the Florida Department of Education.
USF's Department of Education Leadership & Policy Studies will partner with Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas and Polk County school districts to implement the 25-month collaborative, job-embedded principal program. Participants in the Gulf Coast Partnership program will earn dual school leadership certification that typically requires 48 months of preparation.
"The USF/GCP aims to prepare future leaders capable of making systemic school reforms that will develop and sustain improvements in student achievement," says Leonard Burrello, professor and a principal investigator on the grant.
The program's primary goal is to prepare high-performing individuals who will increase administrator, teacher and staff effectiveness while raising student academic achievements in high-need schools. In addition, the program will strive to improve school leadership preparation by developing a single, accelerated, streamlined, and high quality intensive program that becomes the model for Level I/Level II school leadership certification in Florida.