Pakistani Educational Leadership Institute

Staff Report
LAHORE: A group of 15 Pakistani educators recently returned home after completing a three-week summer course at Plymouth State University (PSU), New Hampshire, the United States.
Funded by the US State Department, the Pakistan Educational Leadership Institute (PELI) was organised by PSU and the Lahore-based NGO Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), stated a press release on Friday.

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Following are links to select news coverage of this year’s PEL Institute:

Friday, July 27, 2007
Pakistanis ‘graduate’ at PSU
By BOB MARTIN
HOLDERNESS - Just a day after returning from Washington D.C. as part of a seminar, 15 educators from Pakistan participated in a commencement ceremony this week, making them the fourth graduating class of its kind at [...]

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After more than three weeks of intense training sessions, meetings at Harvard University and the U.S. State Department in Washington D.C., as well as a handful of shopping trips, this year’s participants of Plymouth State University’s Pakistani Educational Leadership Institute will officially complete their program with the PELI Closing Ceremonies Wednesday, July 25 at 3:30 [...]

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Media Note
Office of the Spokesman
US Department of State
Washington, DC
July 20, 2007
US State Department Hosts Pakistani Educators for Special Training Program
WASHINGTON D.C. –The U.S. Department of State welcomes a group of 15 Pakistani educators and administrators, who arrived in the United States earlier this month for an intensive summer training program on the campus of [...]

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Writer and videographer Mary Ann Sullivan is capturing much of this year’s PELI experience on video. Check it out at: www.getsaint.com/pakistanis.
Check back to Mary Ann’s Web site as she promises that more clips will be posted after this weekend.
You can see more of Mary Ann’s work online at: www.getsaint.com..

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This morning PELI participants Muhammed Yasir Pirzada, Deputy Director with the Directorate of Staff Development for the Punjab Region of Lahore, Pakistan and Faiza Ghulam Nabi, Research and Training Associate for the Sindh Educational Foundation in Karachi, Pakistan and PELI director Blake Allen were featured on the NHPR show “The Exchange.” If you missed the [...]

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For more information contact:
Blake Allen
Director, Pakistani Educational Leadership Institute
Coordinator of Pakistani Projects
Plymouth State University
ballen@plymouth.edu
(603) 535-2615
For the fourth consecutive year, thanks to funding from the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Plymouth State University through the Pakistani Educational Leadership Institute will host and engage Pakistani educators and administrators by giving them [...]

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2007 US Department of State press release
Pakistani Teachers To Attend Summer Institute At Plymouth State University
06/25/2007

Lahore, June 25, 2007 - Principal Officer of the U.S. Consulate Lahore Bryan Hunt with Pakistani educators traveling to the U.S. to attend a summer institute at the Plymouth State University (PSU), New Hampshire. Funded by the U.S. [...]

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2006 US Department of State press release
Twenty Teachers To Attend “Summer Institute” At Plymouth State University
06/21/2006
Islamabad – Twenty Pakistani school educators, selected this year to attend a four-week Summer Institute at Plymouth State University in the U.S., assembled in Islamabad Wednesday to attend a pre-departure orientation session.
The ‘Pakistani Teachers Project Summer Institute’ launched in [...]

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