Cleveland City Schools director honored for teaching course

I love teaching courses, because it keeps me on the cutting edge of what's happening."

Martin Ringstaff, director of Cleveland City Schools, teaches a summer course on advanced school law to students at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

And he doesn’t have to step foot on campus to instruct the students, who are teachers aiming to become principals.

“It’s a distance course,” Ringstaff said. “It’s totally online.”

Martin Ringstaff

The teaching work Ringstaff has done at UT on Monday won him a 2015 Excellence in Educational Leadership Award by the University Council for Educational Administration, a consortium of universities from across the United States.