The Principals Institute at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture provides campus administrators with the opportunity to reimagine leadership.

Brief, intensive encounters with great works of literature, history, art and philosophy--in the company of peers and guided by expert facilitators in a retreat-like setting--renew the imagination and deepen critical thinking, speaking, and reading skills, further equipping these vital district leaders to instruct, lead, and inspire those in their charge.

The Principals Institute is a change of pace that helps sustain our professional edge, a break from the routine that reminds us why we love our calling.

Be inspired. Be challenged. Be changed. Join us.

"The Principals Institute has re-awakened my love of 'principalship' in education. We have seen our roles as administrators as timeless and fulfilling." -- Mary Lou Martinez

MAY FILM NIGHT

Dallas ISD Principals, be our guest on Friday, May 21, 2010!
A "we-survived-April" evening retreat at The Dallas Institute

Film and Discussion: Dinner at 5:30 pm, Film at 6:00 pm

RSVP by May 17 to Dr. Claudia Allums at callums@dallasinstitute.org.

2010 PRINCIPAL SYMPOSIUM
for Dallas ISD Principals, Associate Principals, and Assistant Principals

June 20-23, 2010 -- Leadership's New Horizon's: Virgil's Aeneid

Aeneas provides one of the only models of hero-leader from all the classic Western literature: he has the bloodline and experience of a hero but is called upon to lead like a king.

His poem, the Aeneid, portrays the glories and challenges inherent in the difficult task of founding a nation and creating community out of diverse peoples, tasks that every leader and surely every Principal hero-leader must face--creating a community out of a school of diverse students, faculty and staff.

Works to be studied will include: Virgil's Aeneid, excerpts from Aristotle's Ethics and Machiavelli's The Prince. The art and practice of leadership will be considered from writings by Peter Drucker, and visionary leadership will be considered in writings by Donald A. Cowan.

The June Symposium is an intensive 3.5 day retreat for the mind and spirit, a learning immersion that expands the format of the one-day conference and allows for deeper reflection and an extended experience of intellectual community grounded in the ideas of creative leadership and effective learning.

Participants will engage in lectures, seminars, panel discussions, writing workshops, as well as viewing and discussing a film that represents the leader's challenges.

Sunday, May 16, 2010
Mandatory Orientation, 3:30 to 4:30 pm
To discuss the goals and methods of the Symposium, and to distribute books and materials.

Sunday, June 20, 2010
Dinner and Discourse, 6:00 to 8:30 pm

Monday-Wednesday, June 21-23, 2010
Daily Symposia, 8:45am to 4:00 pm

$150 Registration fee includes:
Books and Materials,
Dinner Sunday, Breakfast, Lunch and Snacks, Monday-Wednesday

Pre-reading is required. Enroll by May 14.

The Dallas Institute is DISD Vendor #8172.
Administrator Professional Development Credit Granted.

To register, contact: Dr. Claudia Allums -- callums@dallasinstitute.org or 214-981-8813.

2010 - 2011 ONE-DAY CONFERENCES
for DALLAS ISD MASTER AND LEAD PRINCIPALS

A One-Day Conference - 1:00 - 8:00 pm - October 2010

Shakespeare's Measure for Measure

The leader in crisis resorts to creativity to achieve peace. This topic and other questions of leadership will shape a day of retreat through lectures, seminars, panels, viewing and discussing a film.

Pre-reading is required for this conference.

To learn more, contact: Dr. Claudia Allums -- callums@dallasinstitute.org or 214-981-8813.

SPRING 2011

A One-Day Conference - 1:00 - 8:00 pm - January 2011

Aeschylus' Agamemnon

The great leader gives into ego, his final reward.

This topic and other issues of conflict and resolution will frame a day of retreat in lectures, seminar, panels, and viewing and discussing a film.

Pre-reading is required for this conference.

To learn more, contact: Dr. Claudia Allums -- callums@dallasinstitute.org or 214-981-8813.