UT Principalship Partners

The UT Principalship Partners are a group of committed principals and educational leaders who serve as supportive mentors to our students and critical advisors for our program. These partners engage in conversation and ongoing professional development with our faculty regarding ways of supporting teacher leadership development, best practices in leadership for schools, and researched-based practices for supporting fledgling campus leaders. This relationship between UT Principalship Partners, program faculty, and current students is mutually beneficial and rooted in a vigorous exchange of ideas and approaches for improvement in both the school and university settings.

UT Principalship Partners are instrumental in the recruitment, selection, and support of students. They partner with us in the selection process of finalists for admission into the program located on their campuses and join us formally as soon as a candidate at their campus is admitted into the program. The sessions with UT Principalship Partners are both formal and informal and have included: monthly meetings/discussion sessions, symposia with nationally known scholars and speakers including Ann Lieberman, noted scholar on teacher development and author of numerous articles and books including, Teachers Caught in Action: Professional Development that Matters; Michele Foster, noted African American scholar and author of numerous works including Black Teachers on Teaching; Dr. Felipe Alanis, well-known educator and former Commissioner of the Texas Education Agency; Dr. George Wright, well known African American scholar and President of Prairie View A & M University; Dr. Ted Gordon, Director of the University's Center for African and African American Studies; Dr. Juliet Garcia, one of the first Hispanic female presidents of a major university in the nation and President of UT-Brownsville, and Linda Hooper, founder of the internationally known Paperclip Project; lastly, the Partners join program faculty and students for informal gatherings and receptions created for mutual support and networking.