June 28, 2007
Moving to New Blog Site
Folks,
This is my last post with the Center for School Leadership Development. I've been honored to have had the chance to work with many of you in various roles over the past 5 years.
You can continue reading and "joining the fray" by going to my new blog site, Your Executive Edge. The URL is listed at the bottom of this post.
Best to you and I look forward to continuing the conversation, finding and sharing tips and tools to help you become even more effective.
http://yourexecutiveedge.wordpress.com/
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June 14, 2007
Next to Last Posting?
This post is difficult. Last week, I submitted my resignation as the Principal Fellows Director. Starting July 9, I will be working with Kenan Flagler Business School's Executive Development team. I will be working with another terrific group of people to design and deliver leadership development to the members of the United States Military and the Federal government.
It's bittersweet (or as my terrific program coordinator, Caroline Green noted, "Parting is such sweet sorrow") to write this because I've enjoyed being able to bring some different and hopefully interesting management and leadership tidbits to school executives in NC and around the world.
My initial thought is to continue "the conversation" on another blog that I'd be glad to share with you (just send me an email by July 1st), but another real possibility is just putting the blog on hiatus until further notice. The folks at the Center have been very accomodating so all is good on this end.
Some ideas that I have heard from some of you that interest me (hopefully you as well!?) are continuing the blog in a different part of the web or possibly doing what could be the ultimate in collaboration (writing a book collaboratively on the web and then publishing it in either hard copy or as an e-book). Inspiration for the last idea comes from the "Big Moo", for those who might be interested. We did a similar book with a high school senior, who interned with me this past fall and he and I ended up writing a book of selected Principal Fellow Profiles. As an aside, he told me that the book was a powerful differentiator for him in his college admissions. He's going to pursue journalism at Campbell University. Best of luck, Eric!
What's cool about this book idea is that we could tap into the expertise of many of the school executives around this state who have great ideas and solutions for pressing issues. I'm certainly not trying to make money off of this-any proceeds would go to charity. I'm interested to see if this idea has any merit to help school executives become even better in their work.
I'll write another post or two in the coming two weeks to let you know what I'm thinking. Let me know what you are thinking as well!
Chris
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September 18, 2006
Who We are
I’m the director of the North Carolina Principal Fellows Program at the University of North Carolina. We’re part of the University of North Carolina System and we are housed at the Center for School Leadership Development . I also work in a dual appointment with the North Carolina Principals’ Executive Program . PFP and PEP are two of the longest running state supported executive development programs in the nation. PFP started in 1984 and PEP started in 1983.
I’ve had twenty-one years of diversified management experience in both the public and corporate sectors , including stints as a principal, HR Director, Accountability Director, executive development consultant, Product Manager, and Product Director of a multinational training company, before coming to work with Principal Fellows and the Principals’ Executive Program. This year, our enrollment for our PEP programs are up 17%, and we have launched a partnership with the Kenan Flagler Business School to provide cutting edge executive development to selected NC high schools. We’re also proud to have had our Principal Fellow Alumni significantly outperform the state average on state and federal accountability measures.
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What is the Executive's Edge?
WHAT IT IS
The Executive’s Edge is a tool to communicate and share leadership and management nuggets from various perspectives. It will also give you some links to some articles of interest to leaders from different backgrounds. Please “join the fray” by sharing your ideas and comments. I'll be posting to this once a week, but checking the comments more frequently.
COMMENTS
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