A host of higher education and K-12 professionals will descend on the Vanderbilt Peabody campus in June and July for their own form of summer school, the Peabody Professional Institutes.
“The institutes are an intensive learning experience taught by Vanderbilt faculty and external experts for professional educators, administrators, directors, executives and managers from across the nation and around the world,” PPI Director and Peabody Assistant Dean for External Relations Timothy Caboni said. “This summer’s institutes will run through June and July and will focus on higher education management, fundraising, charter and independent schools, human resources and academic libraries. Attendees, who were selected through a competitive application process, are coming from 32 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.”
New to PPI this summer is a partnership with the state of Tennessee that created an opportunity for 12 Tennessee charter school leaders to attend the Charter School Leadership Institute June 18-22. Institute instructors will then conduct a follow-up visit to each of the schools to help the leaders implement what they learned.
“This institute will give charter school leaders strategies and tools that they can take back to their schools to improve teaching, learning and administration,” Caboni said. “The focus of all of the institutes is to empower education leaders with the latest research and practice in the field so that they can be more effective when they return to their school or university.”
PPI also partnered with the Institute for Museum and Library Services to make scholarships available for 10 participants of the Academic Library Leadership Institute, which will take place July 8-12.
Peabody College of education and human development was ranked as the No. 3 education school in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in 2006. For a full institute schedule and more information on PPI, visit www.vanderbilt.edu/ppi.
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