OCTOB E R 2017
leadstories
foundation
Advancing Kentucky.
oving
tucky’s schools
by creating
ronger eaders Leadership Institute alumna encourages NEWSLETTER OF THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE FOR SCHOOL PRINCIPALS
foundation
Advancing Kentucky.
participation among Kentucky educators | The Chamber reached out to 2012 Leadership Institute for
464 Chenault Rd. | Frankfort, KY 40601 alumna, Amanda Ellis, to learn about the School Principals
lasting impact the program has had on her professional and
re details or to make a donation visit personal life.us online at principalsleadky.com
Ellis spent over| eight years as a principal in Anderson county CONNECT WITH US
ing
Amanda Ellis
before working for the Department of Education. When asked if she misses being a principal she said she misses her school family, but now instead of advocating for 500 students, she advocates for 700,000 every day.
Associate Commissioner – Office of Next Generation explaining her Leadership Institute for School Principals 464 Chenault Rd. |When Frankfort, KY 40601 Learners, Kentucky experience, her advice to other participants is “don’t anticipate, Department of Education
cky’s schools
participate. ” us online at principalsleadky.com ore details or to make a donation visit
She mentioned there are not many other options for principals to gain professional CONNECT WITH US | development, but “there is no better way to start than this” and it would be a huge loss of opportunity not to take advantage of it.
by creating
onger aders
“Principals are some of the most giving people, but not always to themselves,” Ellis said. Before the program, “I was depleting myself as a leader because I was focused on everyone else.” She described this program as “an enforced deep dive into yourself as a leader.” During the program, she took multiple assessments evaluating her strengths and weaknesses as a leader, and with help from the coaches and facilitators, she discovered the real truths about her leadership, and the results were “transformational.”
The Leadership Institute for School Principals program realigned her priorities, stating “being a principal is the hardest job I’ve ever had other than being a parent.” But after the program, “I found better balance; I was a more productive leader at work and at home.” She started to build leadership and ownership within her staff, allowing them to lead and her to get out of the way. Ellis said the professional and personal goals she made during the Leadership Institute for School Principals hangs on the back of her office door for her to look at every day. One of the lasting concepts she practices is “what do you say you value, and then what do you give to it?” Because of the impact it had on her life, she will always support and encourage principals to participate in the Leadership Institute for School Principals.
Kentucky Chamber partners with BB&T Leadership Institute to train principals | The Chamber foundation partnered with the BB&T Leadership Institute to train principals. During the January 2017 meeting of the Chamber’s Leadership Institute for School Principals Advisory Board, the group voted unanimously to partner with the BB&T Leadership Institute of Greensboro, NC, to provide executive leadership training for Kentucky’s school principals. The first class began in June.
464 Chenault Rd. | Frankfort, KY 40601
etails or to make a donation visit us online at principalsleadky.com For six years, the Chamber has raised money from Kentucky businesses to sponsor principals from their local schools for executive-level leadership training. More than 350 principals have graduated from the Chamber’s Institute and more than $3 million has been donated to the Chamber Foundation to sponsor individual principals.
CONNECT WITH US |
“When the Kentucky Chamber Foundation launched the Leadership Institute for School Principals in 2011, it was with the goal of empowering principals with high-level leadership training usually provided to corporate executives,” said Leadership Institute Board Chair Joel Hopper. “Going forward, we feel that BB&T’s Leadership Institute is best suited to be our strategic partner for providing the training.”
Above: Rendering of the BB&T Leadership Institute currently under construction that will provide new training facilities.