Tyler Tingley
Tyler Tingley | |
|---|---|
| Principal of Blake School | |
| In office 1991–1997 | |
| 13th Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy | |
| In office 1997–2009 | |
| Preceded by | Kendra Stearns O'Donnell |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Edward Hassan |
| Personal details | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA, MEd, EdD) |
Tyler Chapman Tingley is an American educator who has headed four private secondary schools, including The Blake School and Phillips Exeter Academy.[1][2][3]
Education
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]Tingley began his career as a teacher of English at Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford, CT.[4] After holding a variety of administrative positions there, he was named its headmaster in 1986,[1] 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.[5]
From 1991 to 1997, he was the principal of Blake School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Under his leadership, the school was twice named a National School of Excellence.[1]
From 1997 to 2009, he was principal of Phillips Exeter Academy.[1][2][3] Under his leadership, Exeter offered free tuition to lower-income families[3][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.[3] He has also been a director of the National Association of Independent Schools and president of the Headmasters Association.[3] He is a trustee of United World College-USA, Shady Hill School and the Edward E. Ford Foundation.
In popular culture
[edit | edit source]Tingley was tuckerized into Exeter alumnus Dan Brown's novel Angels & Demons as Tyler Tingley, a conspiracy theorist.
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