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Support Network for Innovative Principals (SNIP)
Apply now to be a part of our next SNIP cohort!
When those in K-12 education demand vision, accountability, leadership, and instructional direction, they demand all of this from one person: the school principal. The principal not only bears the growing weight of education reform, but also shoulders the pressures of managing faculty and staff, communicating with parents, fostering the school's mission, and serving students. In other words, the principal is someone everyone in the school community looks to for leadership, guidance, and support. However, there are few places to which a principal can turn for similar inspiration, replenishment, and camaraderie.
It is for precisely this reason that PSI formed its first Support Network for Innovative Principals in 2002. Since then, we have brought together eight cohorts — small groups in which eight to twelve public school principals meet for seven sessions to share their successes and challenges and offer one another advice and support, as they hone their critical listening skills and examine their own leadership strengths and weaknesses. Participants are veteran as well as first time school leaders. They are men and women, black, white, Asian American, and Latino. Their schools are urban, suburban, charter, district, pilot, and alternative. What they all have in common is their role. All are leaders of public schools, and all have faced many of the same questions and challenges.
Participation in this group has steadily grown over the years thanks in part to alumni referrals. We find that the best candidates for SNIP are those who strive to create school environments in which trust and adult learning form a foundation for effective teaching, student growth, and communal respect. They are committed to the belief that every student can excel.
SNIP Alumni Celebration - June 2007
Second Annual SNIP Alumni Celebration - April 2008
Please click the picture below to hear a selection of remarks that SNIP Co-Founder Kevin Andrews delivered to the first gathering of SNIP alumni on June 13, 2007.
