Tyler Tingley
Tyler C. Tingley is an American educator who has headed four private secondary schools including The Blake School.
Education
Tingley received his undergraduate training at Harvard College, receiving an A.B. in 1968 and his M.Ed. and Ed.D. degrees from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1976 and 1982.
Career
Tingley began his career as a teacher of English at Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford, CT.[1] After holding a variety of administrative positions there, he was named its headmaster in 1986,[2] the school’s first graduate to hold the position. Kingswood-Oxford gives an annual award named after Tingley, The Tyler C. Tingley Award, to a graduating student who has excelled both academically and in community service.[3]
From 1991 to 1997 he was the principal of Blake School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. While he was principal, the school was twice named a National School of Excellence.[2]
From 1997–2009 he was principal of Phillips Exeter Academy.[2][4][5] Under his leadership Exeter offered free tuition to lower-income families[5][6] and changed its rules to allow gay and lesbian faculty couples to serve as live-in role models in school dormitories.[7]
In 2009 he became co-head of Avenues: The World School[8][9][10]
Tingley has served as president of the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools and the Minnesota Association of Independent Schools.[5] He has also been a director of the National Association of Independent Schools and president of the Headmasters Association.[5] He is a trustee of United World College-USA, Shady Hill School and the Edward E. Ford Foundation.
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