Project Mentor: Dr. Bill Whitney, Creative Inquiry
2026 Impact Fellows:
Project Description:
The future of education hinges on leadership that cultivates a dynamic school culture prioritizing Curiosity, Creativity, Confidence, and Caring. This GSIF project will partner with the Agastya International Foundation and focuses on developing transformational techniques for educational leadership in India. Students on this new (for 2026) project will build and test a comprehensive framework for innovative school leadership. Team members will rigorously analyze the core values, beliefs, and daily practices of headmasters, school principals, and other administrators across diverse school settings.
Working cross-culturally, we will examine global leadership techniques from different cultural settings. This will involve examining how leaders in vastly different contexts foster faculty empowerment, encouraging teachers to move beyond traditional pedagogies and embrace cutting-edge, experiential learning methods. The research will reveal universal leadership characteristics and opportunities that successfully translate intent into innovative action.
A central component is the rapid transformation driven by AI. Students will define and co-develop practical, scalable strategies for integrating AI into the school ecosystem. Specifically, the team will design protocols that harness AI to lessen administrative burdens, allowing leaders and teachers to focus on transforming student lives. Join us to translate these groundbreaking cross-cultural and technological insights into a new, evidence-based model for global educational leadership in the 21st century.