Hamilton School District's Marcy Principal Featured In Harvard University’s Leadership Program

Press release from the Hamilton School District:

October 15, 2020

Marcy Elementary School Principal Michele Trawicki will be one of 20 principals in the country who will be featured in Harvard University’s Certificate in School Management and Leadership (CSML) Program. Trawicki will be one of five practitioners in the “Leading for Learning” course.

Harvard professors who run the program identified Marcy Elementary School in a national search for excellent schools and leaders.

“You and your school rose to the top of the list for us, and our interviews with you have resulted in insights that will undoubtedly enhance the quality and relevance of our course,” wrote the professors who co-chair the program offered through Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Business School.

“We’d like to emphasize that you, along with your colleagues, would be right to feel very proud of being selected for this opportunity,” the professors wrote. “Of the hundreds of schools and principals researched, we will only be featuring 20 in the entire four-course certificate program (and just 5 in the course Leading Learning).”

Trawicki will be the principal featured in a case study of a practitioner in the program’s fourth and final course, “Leading for Learning.” Practitioners are profiled in video case studies in which they discuss their work leading teaching and learning at their school. Due to COVID-19, instead of Harvard sending a live film crew, they have provided a filming kit to collect interview footage of a virtual interview with Trawicki.

In 2019, Trawicki was selected the Wisconsin elementary principal of the year and Marcy was chosen a national Blue Ribbon School.

This press release was produced by the Hamilton School District. The views expressed here are the author’s own.