Leal, Stumbaugh Selected for Harvard Leadership Program

Principals Rosemary Leal of Los Fresnos Elementary School and Jennifer Stumbaugh of Los Fresnos United Ninth Grade Campus have been selected to participate in a summer leadership program at The Principals’ Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Raise Your Hand Texas is sponsoring 95 principals from 65 school districts and charter schools throughout the state.

With this year’s group, Raise Your Hand Texas will have sponsored more than 900 principals to attend Harvard in the eight years of the program. Raise Your Hand covers all expenses for those selected, including program tuition fees, travel, hotel and other discretionary funding – an average of about $7,500 per attendee, for a total of nearly $750,000 in sponsorships for 2016, and more than $6 million since the program’s inception.

Attendees will join campus leaders from around the globe in one of the following six institutes, and engage in training and workshops led by national and international experts in the fields of education and leadership: National Institute for Urban School Leaders; Improving Schools: The Art of Leadership; Leadership: An Evolving Vision; Closing the Achievement Gap; Family Engagement in Education; School Turnaround Leaders.

Each Institute lasts for 5-7 days, between June 6 and July 28, 2016.

Leal and Stumbaugh were two of only five principals selected from school districts south of San Antonio. Two principals were chosen from the Harlingen CISD and one from the Raymondville ISD.