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PPEERS Receives Visit From Executive Director of Center for Safer Schools

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As part of PPEERS’s Thursday Seminar and ELC 675: Schools as Centers of Inquiry, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) Executive Director of Center for Safer Schools (CFSS), Karen W. Fairley, J.D., recently presented to the PPEERS 4 Cohort. PPEERS Leadership Team members and UNC Greensboro School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations (ELC) members were also in attendance for her presentation.

PPEERS Awarded the UCEA Exemplary Educational Leadership Preparation Program Award

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The University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) has presented its 2021 UCEA Exemplary Educational Leadership Program (EELP) Award to the Principal Preparation for Excellence and Equity in Rural Schools (PPEERS) program at the UNC Greensboro. The EELP Award celebrates exemplary programs that model, catalyze, and support ongoing program improvement in … Continued

PPEERS Receives $1.6 Million in Continued Funding from NC Alliance for School Leadership Development

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Congratulations to Dr. Kimberly Kappler-Hewitt and the Principal Preparation for Excellence and Equity in Rural Schools (PPEERS) team for receiving an award of $1.6 million from NC Alliance for School Leadership Development (NCASLD). Dr. Kappler-Hewitt, faculty member in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations (ELC), … Continued

UNCG SOE Establishes New Institute for Partnerships in Education (I-PiE)

UNC Greensboro School of Education announced the establishment of the Institute for Partnerships in Education (I-PiE), to be housed within the School of Education (SOE). The SOE expects I-PiE will be operational in summer or fall of 2020 and is starting the process of developing the Institute infrastructure, beginning with … Continued