Project Transform Seeks Support for Principals Leadership Program

Project Transform (PT), a civil society organisation formed by the Rotaract Club of University of Moratuwa, the Sri Lanka National Commission for UNESCO, and the YKG Foundation, announced that it is seeking funding for its Principals Leadership Program – its key initiative to transform K-12 education in Sri Lanka through 21st Century Skills, thereby helping the country to achieve first-world status by 2048.

To transform K-12 education, PT is organising the Principals Leadership Program (PLP): a residential leadership training program for 75 government-school principals from all 25 districts of Sri Lanka. 

At this conference, principals will learn about the critical role of school leadership, innovative education best practices from leading countries in education, and the importance of teaching 21st Century Skills in their schools. They will form a principals group to coordinate and develop principals’ leadership skills indefinitely into the future, and help principals develop their schools. Post-event, the Project Transform team will work with the principals until its goal is achieved: total transformation of Sri Lanka’s K-12 education system via 21st Century Skills.

PT Chairman Yukthi Gunasekera said: “We embarked on Project Transform with an ambitious goal: to transform K-12 education in Sri Lanka by enhancing principals’ leadership skills and teaching 21s Century skills to students across the island. The Principals Leadership Program is a key plank of our Project. The outcome of this Program is students’ coming out of our education system with the skills they need to succeed in the 21st century workplace. Since we are planning to hold the conference in June 2024, we are on the lookout for donors to come forward and support it. Given the critical importance of 21st Century Skills for Sri Lanka to become a developed nation, we are confident that patriotic donors will step forward enthusiastically to ensure the conference happens.”