The 2025–2026 cohort of District Leadership Fellows gathered at SMU for their two-day Fall Retreat in late September. After meeting online for the previous month, leaders from Texas and the surrounding states welcomed the opportunity to connect, collaborate, and learn in person.
As part of the District Leadership Fellows program, Dr. Bobbie Treviño, Superintendent of Zapata County ISD, is focused on increasing reading proficiency of all students in her district. This goal is key for her as she believes all students should have the opportunity to develop strong literacy skills to support academic success, critical thinking and lifelong learning, and that literacy is the foundation to all other learning.
32 school district leaders have been welcomed into the 2022-2023 cohort of District Leadership Fellows, a hybrid in-person and online leadership training program for school district superintendents and executive district leaders run by the Institute for Leadership Impact at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
“Once we have our ‘why,’ why we do what we do, that’ll help us stay focused on our goal.” – Dr. James Randle
During the 2019-2020 academic year and the following summer, SMU Institute for Leadership Impact projects, researchers, and students were featured many times in local and national media reporting.
Twenty-one district leaders from Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Arkansas have kicked off the 2020-2021 District Leadership Fellows cohort with an online meeting.
As transmission of SARS-CoV-2 continues in the Dallas region, experts say that face coverings worn over the nose and mouth are an essential tool for keeping the virus at bay.
The Institute for Leadership Impact and the Center for Global Health Impact, both headquartered at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, have released a joint impact report for the 2019-2020 academic year.
[The coronavirus] doesn’t care about politics. It only understands its biology. If we don’t begin to think like the virus, people will die.
One year ago, the Institute for Leadership Impact hosted a half-day seminar for over 120 rural Texas high school students in the Upward Bound program.
