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About The NCEL<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n
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About The NCEL<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The History of the National College for Educational Leadership<\/strong><\/h2><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The National College for Educational Leadership (NCEL), in 2011, was established and given the responsibility to develop excellent leadership in the island\u2019s public and independent schools. It leads strategic initiatives to improve leadership, facilitate the provision of support and create local leadership networks in conjunction with the Ministry\u2019s regional offices and agencies.\u00a0 NCEL serves the developmental needs of school leaders for aspiring, middle leaders, experienced principals and board chairmen.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The rationale for its establishment arose from the 2004 Task Force Report on Educational Reform which proposed that the then Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture (MoEYC) needed to set and maintain standards for leadership and ensure that there was proper accreditation, training and development for aspiring leaders. At the heart of the philosophy of NCEL is the recognition that the preparation of principals for their demanding roles lacks coherence, that there needs to be a better balance between knowledge and skills in leadership development and that the MoEYC needed to have greater control over the identification and preparation of candidates for the post of principal.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The NCEL was therefore established to improve the quality of leaders and managers in education.\u00a0 The College has, inter alia (i) transformed children\u2019s achievement and well-being through excellent school leadership; (ii) built national policy and priorities into training; (iii) identified and developed future school leaders; (iv) brought coherence to existing training and development leadership programmes in education; and (v) developed the capacity of education officers to operate effectively in a modernised system. To support these aims, the NCEL has adopted national standards for school principals (developed by the Jamaica Teaching Council). \u00a0In 2019, the College in an effort to chronicle the experiences of school leaders published the first of its kind, the Principals\u2019 Voice Magazine<\/em><\/strong>, as a tool to advance the understanding, practice and development of leadership for the benefit of the education sector.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n

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NCEL has benefited from the stewardship of the following Director\/Principals who served diligently during respective periods:<\/h3><\/div><\/div>
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July 2024-Present<\/h4><\/div>

Mr. Keriffe Clark<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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September 2021-June 2024<\/h4><\/div>

Mrs. Winnie Berry<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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June 2017 \u2013 September 2021<\/strong><\/h4><\/div>

Dr. Taneisha Ingleton<\/strong><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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November 2016 \u2013 May 2017<\/strong><\/h4><\/div>

Mrs. Rosemary Campbell-Stephens<\/strong><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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January 2013 \u2013 October 2016<\/strong><\/h4><\/div>

Dr. Maurice Smith<\/strong><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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July 2011- December 2012<\/h4><\/div>

Dr. Doeford Shirley<\/strong><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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In November 2012, the College delivered its first residential training to over 100 principals through one of its flagship programmes the Effective Principals\u2019 Training Programme which is designed to provide capacity-building support to in-service principals.\u00a0 In 2014, the College introduced and delivered the Aspiring Principals\u2019 Programme in partnership with the School of Education and the Mona School of Business and Management of the University of the West Indies, Mona. The forty-one participants who were carefully selected to form this inaugural cohort received a fellowship from the Government of Jamaica to pursue the programme; a number of them have since assumed to the post of principal. Other programme offerings developed and implemented by the College include, but not limited to, Child-Friendly Schools Leadership Programme, Leadership and School Policy, Leadership for Safer Schools, Inclusive School Leadership Training Programme, Middle Leadership Training Programme, Strategic Middle Leadership Initiative and the System and School Leadership Training Programme.

Since its inception, the College has developed several high impact leadership development programmes and initiatives targeting school leaders across the early childhood, primary and secondary levels of the system. It has also forged and sustained several national, regional and international partnerships that have contributed greatly to improved student outcomes.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n

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