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At Warsaw Community Schools, learning doesn’t stop just because it’s summer. On July 16-17, 10 educators from WCS participated in the second annual Indiana Principal Leadership Institute Summer Seminar at Indiana State University.

IPLI is a two-year institute designed to address the professional needs of Indiana principals with an emphasis on student success. The institute increases a principal’s capacity to address the current needs of his/her school.

The focus of the first year of the institute is to strengthen a principal’s own leadership capacity. This summer, Randy Dahms, principal at Leesburg Elementary, and Dr. Jon Lippe, principal at Lakeview Middle School, began the first year of the institute.

Much of the work of the institute takes place within a regional cohort. Each cohort is made up of three to five administrators as well as a mentor assigned from Indiana State University. Dr. David Hoffert, superintendent of WCS, serves as a mentor with the institute and supports a cohort of five administrators that are in their second year of the program.

There are three local members of Dr. Hoffert’s cohort: Lee Snider, principal at Harrison Elementary School; David Robertson, former principal at Jefferson Elementary School and recently named Chief Academic Officer; and Kyle Carter, the newly named principal at Jefferson Elementary School.