Henrico Schools earns achievement award for EduLead partnership on leadership succession planning

December 14, 2012

Henrico County Public Schools recently earned a National Association of Counties (NACo) Achievement Award for its Succession Plan for School Leaders, the product of a partnership with the University of Richmond/Virginia Commonwealth University partnership program EduLead.

This NACo Achievement Award is one of eight total awards earned by Henrico County Schools.

According to the October press release, “Objective 1.1 of the HCPS [Henrico County Public Schools] Strategic Plan is to recruit, hire, train and evaluate personnel to ensure they are effective and accountable. To prepare individuals aspiring to be principals, a training position, the associate principal, was created. HCPS partnered with EduLead to train principals in how to effectively mentor associate principals and prepare them to become principals in the future.”

EduLead is a collaborative effort of the University of Richmond Center for Leadership in Education (CLE), the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Education Educational Leadership program, local corporations and Richmond-area public school divisions.

The CLE is, in turn, a cooperative effort of the University of Richmond School of Professional and Continuing Studies and the Jepson School of Leadership Studies. Dr. Tom Shields, professor of educational leadership, is director of the Center.