Outreach: Educational administration and policy faculty facilitate Egyptian delegation visit
Faculty in the Mary Frances Early College of Education’s educational administration and policy program worked with a delegation of school leaders from Egypt during a weeklong visit to Georgia, which focused on providing the delegation with an overview of the U.S. education system as well as professional development.
Ten elementary school principals who graduated at the top of Egypt’s national leadership academy spent the week visiting schools and meeting with educators and school administrators in both urban and rural Georgia school districts. The visit was made possible through partnerships with the Education Development Center (EDC) and the USAID Teach for Tomorrow Executive Study Tour.
“Our work with EDC really started in our partnership with school districts, with Gwinnett County Schools and the University, with the whole idea of bringing educator preparation programs and school districts together—that if we work together, we could better prepare leaders and teachers,” said Karen Bryant, director of the UGA Gwinnett campus and one of the liaisons of the visit.