Project SOAR

Project Student Outreach Access & Resiliency is the UA’s premier mentoring program. Project SOAR targets students attending under-resourced middle schools in the Tucson area. The program enrolls approximately 100 UA students per semester who serve as mentors for hundreds of middle-school students.

Check out these fast facts about Project SOAR. (pdf)

International Successful School Principalship Project (ISSPP)

The ISSPP is the largest and most sustained network on research on successful school principalship across nearly 20 countries and involves faculty and students in the Educational Leadership Program at the University of Arizona. Case Studies draw upon: (1) data collected from multiple perspectives; (2) comparisons of effective leadership in diverse contexts ranging from small primary schools to large urban secondary schools; and (3) identification of personal qualities and professional competencies generic to effective school leaders. The research team at the University of Arizona is particularly interested in effective leadership that contributes to educational and social justice in communities characterized by high poverty and cultural diversity. Further, the Educational Leadership program is using findings from the ISSPP as part of their efforts to cultivate the next generation of leadership in the borderlands.

For more information about ISSPP, please see http://www.uv.uio.no/ils/english/research/projects/isspp/

To find out about our most recent international ISSPP conference involving EDL students and faculty: http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/about/news/2011/International_Conference.html