Program News
Program helps SC principals hone management skills
A new program
through Executive Education at the Moore School will offer courses to enhance the management skills
of school administrators from across South Carolina.
The new management training program is a cooperative effort of Moore's Executive Education, the S.C. State Department of Education, and the USC College of Education. It builds on a leadership training program that has been available to S.C. educators through the Center for Creative Leadership of Greensboro, North Carolina, since 2000.
"That program trains 75 people a year," says Charlie Farrell, director of Executive Education. "There are approximately 3,000 superintendents, principals, and assistant principals in this state who can benefit from this program. The idea is to give superintendents and principals management training that they aren't getting through the CCL program." Among the courses that will be offered are Strategic Thinking and Analysis, Crisis Preparedness, Project Management, and Data to Decision-Making.
A full program of 12 course offerings for school administrators will begin in September. In March, school administrators who have already completed CCL's leadership training began supplemental management courses through Executive Education.
South Carolina's Education Accountability Act of 1998 called for effective leadership training for school administrators to "meet national standards for professional development and focus on the improvement of teaching and learning."