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CONTACT:

Elizabeth Lorenz
Raise Your Hand Texas
(512) 476-4178

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RAISE YOUR HAND TEXAS TO SEND OVER 100 PRINCIPALS TO HARVARD

The organization will once again select over 100 Texas principals
to attend the Harvard Graduate School of Education Summer Institutes

AUSTIN, TEXAS (March 1, 2011) –The Raise Your Hand Texas Leadership Program plans to
once again send an elite group of Texas public and charter school principals to the Harvard
Graduate School of Education Summer Institutes in Cambridge, MA.

Principals are selected into the program through a competitive application process and RYHT
covers the cost of tuition, travel, hotel accommodations, and provides a modest discretionary
fund for meals and other expenses.

This marks the fourth year that RYHT will expose campus leaders to the foremost national
experts in the fields of education and leadership. By the end of this summer, RYHT will have
invested over $4 million in 500 Texas principals, providing powerful leadership to an estimated
25,000 teachers and 400,000 students in Texas public schools.

“Attending the Harvard Principal’s Center Art of Leadership training was the most significant
learning experience of my career,” said Ryan Coleman of Van Alstyne Middle School in Van
Alstyne, Texas. “The presenters were on the cutting-edge of educational thought and reform
and challenged us as well as provided many resources to enable us to take our campuses to
the next level.” Mr. Coleman is a member of the 2009 RYHT Leadership Program Cohort.

This hands-on opportunity to work alongside educators from across the country and the world
begins at Harvard and continues in Texas. Alumni of the RYHT Leadership Program reunite
each spring for a two-day conference of intensive instruction and guided collaboration.

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“What is most profound from this experience is the reminder and affirmation of what we are
charged to create and maintain – to educate through effective and efficient teaching, and to
develop and maintain sincere relationships. This thought is exemplified by the opportunities
and the work of Raise Your Hand Texas,” said Pam Dahlquist, Principal of Big Country
Elementary in San Antonio.

The 2011 application is now available online (www.RaiseYourHandTexas.org) and must be


completed by March 31, 2011 at midnight. Applicants will be notified of acceptance into the
program via email no later than May 2, 2011.

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Raise Your Hand Texas is a grassroots, bipartisan advocacy organization made up of


community and business leaders, educators and taxpayers from around the state. Its focus is
to ensure that all Texas students receive a quality education in order to become college and
workforce ready for the 21st century.

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