Project CEO Grant uri icon

abstract

  • Project CEO is a professional development grant in partnership between the College of Education, the, College of Arts and Sciences, at East Carolina University and Tyrrell County Schools. The purpose of Project CEO is to change the perceived role of the principal from the ?booking agent?, the one who manages the building, the schedule and the professional development to the ?CEO-Chief Educational Officer?, the instructional leader who will facilitate, lead and participate in professional development for his/her school with the goal of improving student academic literacy across the content areas. As a learning community, ECU faculty and a team of principals and lead teachers from Tyrrell County Middle School and Tyrrell County High School will learn, implement, and coach content based instructional strategies through implementation of the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Model.

date/time interval

  • March 2010 - September 2011