Raise Your Hand Texas Leadership Program:
The Principals’ Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education

The 2009 Raise Your Hand Texas Leadership Program will send over 100 of our top public and charter school campus leaders to The Principals’ Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education to participate in one of five Summer Institutes. The Summer Institutes will expose our principals to leading national and international experts in the fields of education and leadership. In addition, our school leaders will work with renowned educators from across the country.

Applications dates: March 3, 2009 to April 3, 2009.

Thank you for your interest. Applications are no longer being accepted at this time.

Please read eligibility requirements and application instructions thoroughly.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Applicants must be a current Texas public or charter school principal.
• Assistant or associate principals are not eligible.
• Applicants who are not currently in a principal position but who are seeking a principal position are ineligible to apply. However, if you are not currently a principal but have secured a principal position for the coming school year you are eligible to apply. We require a letter from your Superintendent indicating that you’ve been offered a position as a principal for the 2009-2010 school year. The letter may be mailed to:
  
  Raise Your Hand Texas
  Attn: Leadership Program
  816 Congress, Ste. 990
  Austin, TX 78701
  
  Letters may be emailed in pdf format (on official district/school letterhead) to leadership.program@ryht.org.
• If you attended The Principals’ Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education through Raise Your Hand Texas in 2008 you are ineligible to reapply at this time.
• Applicants who apply directly to The Principals’ Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education will not be eligible to attend through Raise Your Hand Texas.
• If you attended The Principals’ Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education previously through an organization other than Raise Your Hand Texas you may apply.

Application Instructions:

• Applications will be available on the Raise Your Hand Texas website starting Tuesday, March 3, 2009.
• Applications must be completed and submitted (in their entirety) by Friday, April 3, 2009.
• Do not apply directly to The Principals’ Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education unless you intend to pay for the Harvard Graduate School of Education. You must complete the application through the link on the RYHT website.
• You must complete all required fields on the application.
• You may apply once, under one name.
• You must provide correct and accurate information.
• You must submit a letter from your Superintendent stating that you are in good standing with your school district. The letter may be mailed to:
  
  Raise Your Hand Texas
  Attn: Leadership Program
  816 Congress, Ste. 990
  Austin, TX 78701
  
  Letters may be emailed in pdf format (on official district/school letterhead) to leadership.program@ryht.org.

Selection Process:

• Applications will be available on the Raise Your Hand Texas website starting March 3, 2009.
• Application deadline is April 3, 2009.
• Over one-hundred participants will be selected to participate from throughout Texas.
• You will be notified via email and mail. We recommend you unblock spam filters so you can receive email from Raise Your Hand Texas.
• If you are selected, Raise Your Hand Texas will provide travel, hotel stay, tuition, and a modest discretionary spending fund.
• We encourage participants to submit blog entries and photographs from their Harvard experience.
• Applicants will be able to indicate their first through third choice in attending one of the following programs at Harvard: