Wallace Fellows Program
Description
The Wallace Fellows Program is a partnership of professors, practitioners and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) that promotes collaborative professional development for experienced urban principals. The Wallace Fellows provides an avenue for administrators to develop the knowledge, skills and reflective practices necessary to obtain master administrator licensure from DPI. Participants have an opportunity to reflect on their work, link research and practice, and hone the skills necessary to raise the quality of administrative practice more broadly by mentoring others. Content is linked to developing leadership in areas identified by the licensure standards, research literature and real problems of practice currently facing participants. Wallace Fellows is an outgrowth of the Master Administrators Capstone Certificate (MACC) pilot program, and successful participants are also eligible for the certificate awarded by the UW-Madison.
Outcomes
There has been improved leadership in Wisconsin high schools, the program has created models for partnership with school districts, has strengthened leadership preparation programs and has an aligned policy system to support leadership development, including university, district, association and state partners.
Counties
- Brown
- Dane
- Kenosha
- Milwaukee
- Racine
Partners
- Milwaukee
- Madison
- Racine
- Kenosha and Green Bay School Districts
- the Association of Wisconsin School Administrators
- Department of Public Instruction
- Madison and Racine High Schools
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Web site
http://www.education.wisc.edu/elpa/admissions/MACC/index.html
Leader
Carolyn Kelley, Professor