ABOUT
THE INSTITUTES
Inspired by the work of the late David Mallery, the LEADright Institute for Teachers and Teacher Leaders and the LEADright Institute for School and District-Level Executives are two gatherings that collectively offer a week-long experience bringing together people who are “in education” in many different ways. The two LEADright Institutes are hosted concurrently thus affording the attendees of Institutes tremendous opportunities for networking and collaboration.
Institute attendees may be working with three-year olds or senior citizens or any ages between. They may be subject-matter specialists or free-wheelers from public and independent institutions, they may be from innovating or traditional places, and they may be at many different stages of their own careers and explorations. They are invited to one of the two LEADright Institutes because of distinction in their own work and because of the richness they might bring to a particular Institute and take away from it.
Central to the LEADright Institutes is the exploration of some new and old ways of teaching and learning, experiencing and reflecting, living and leading. There will be people, materials, readings, out-door partnership activities, and experiences in bringing together ideas and issues, research and hopes, the arts, activities we hope are congenial and useful to people concerned with education. The experience of the LEADright Institutes develops each year according to the styles and interests of the people who make up the group. Those invited to the LEADright Institutes are urged to respond immediately, as each Institute’s real richness is not in program or activities but in the participants themselves. They are the center of the experience even as they are the creators of it.
INSTITUTE HOST
DR. TONY LAMAIR BURKS II is a 23-year veteran educator. He is an alumnus of Morehouse College, Trevecca Nazarene University, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A master whistler and StoryWeaver, he is Superintendent-in-Residence with the National Center for Urban School Transformation and a children’s book author. Dr. Burks' LinkedIn Profile.
Inspired by the work of the late David Mallery, the LEADright Institute for Teachers and Teacher Leaders and the LEADright Institute for School and District-Level Executives are two gatherings that collectively offer a week-long experience bringing together people who are “in education” in many different ways. The two LEADright Institutes are hosted concurrently thus affording the attendees of Institutes tremendous opportunities for networking and collaboration.
Institute attendees may be working with three-year olds or senior citizens or any ages between. They may be subject-matter specialists or free-wheelers from public and independent institutions, they may be from innovating or traditional places, and they may be at many different stages of their own careers and explorations. They are invited to one of the two LEADright Institutes because of distinction in their own work and because of the richness they might bring to a particular Institute and take away from it.
Central to the LEADright Institutes is the exploration of some new and old ways of teaching and learning, experiencing and reflecting, living and leading. There will be people, materials, readings, out-door partnership activities, and experiences in bringing together ideas and issues, research and hopes, the arts, activities we hope are congenial and useful to people concerned with education. The experience of the LEADright Institutes develops each year according to the styles and interests of the people who make up the group. Those invited to the LEADright Institutes are urged to respond immediately, as each Institute’s real richness is not in program or activities but in the participants themselves. They are the center of the experience even as they are the creators of it.
INSTITUTE HOST
DR. TONY LAMAIR BURKS II is a 23-year veteran educator. He is an alumnus of Morehouse College, Trevecca Nazarene University, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A master whistler and StoryWeaver, he is Superintendent-in-Residence with the National Center for Urban School Transformation and a children’s book author. Dr. Burks' LinkedIn Profile.