The National Training Center for Secondary School Principals held a symposium for international school leaders at Zhongbei campus of East China Normal University on November 2.
More than 20 principals from home and abroad participate in the symposium.
More than 20 school headmasters from the U.S., France, U.K., South Africa, Australia, and nearly 100 heads of Chinese secondary schools attended the Sino-Foreign Leading Principals Symposum.
Dai Ruihua, Director of the National Training Center for Secondly School Principals, and Rob Nairn, Chairman of the Australian Middle School Principals Association, gave speeches at the opening ceremony. They believed that despite the cultural differences between Oriental and Western schools, it was a common trend that school principals would turn their duties from administration to professional leadership.
Dai Ruihua (L) and Rob Narin
Prof. Fan Guorui of ECNU, Dr. John Churchley, Assistant Superintendent of Kamloops/Thompson school district in Canada, Prof. Yan Wenpan, Director of the Department of Education Leaderhsip of University of Massachusetts Boston, and Prof. Dai Ruihua of the National Training Center for Secondly School Principals, gave keynote speeches on education leadership and other topics. Principals then held heated discussions on Educational Leadership in School Reforms, the theme of the symposium.
Some foreign school principals pay a visit to the Shanghai No. 3 Girls’ Middle School.
On the morning of November 3, foreign school principals visited Shanghai No. 3 Girls’ Middle School. On that afternoon, they held in-depth communications with trainees of the Eighth National Seminar for Excellent Secondary School Principals.
