About Us

 

VASSP

 

 

 

 
Welcome to the Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals’ web site. Founded in 1906 and incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1974, VASSP is the statewide advocacy and outreach professional organization for school principals and assistant principals. In addition to our mission statement and vision statement, the VASSP bylaws state that the object of the association shall be educational, charitable, and fraternal, and committed to the improvement of secondary education, i.e. middle, junior high, intermediate, high school, combined, and vocational.

VASSP is a unified affiliate of the National Association of Secondary School Principals and offers membership to practicing secondary school administrators. It is governed by a 16-member Board of Directors of which nine directors represent established geographical regions in the state.

A Division of Student Leadership Services was created by VASSP in 1994 to foster the leadership learning of Virginia’s youth. VASSP sponsors three major statewide leadership learning organizations through the DSL. They are: Virginia Student Councils Association, Virginia Association of Honor Societies, and Virginia Association of Student Activity Advisers.

Mission Statement
The mission of the Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals, Inc. is to assist school principals and assistant principals in providing leadership to their schools youth. 

VFEL

Virginia Foundation for Educational Leadership, Inc.
In 1995, the Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals founded the Virginia Foundation for Educational Leadership. The Foundation was incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia and was designated as a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit foundation that same year. A major focus of VFEL will be to assist in obtaining external financial resources to supplement and expand the programs of the Division of Student Leadership Services–including the Virginia Student Councils Association, Virginia Association of Honor Societies, and Virginia Association of Student Activity Advisers.

The Virginia Foundation for Educational Leadership (VFEL) is VASSP’s foundation. The mission of VFEL is to carry out the charitable and educational activities of the VASSP. To accomplish this mission, VFEL shall:

  • Advance education in the field of educational administration and student leadership development.
  • Develop and improve educational leadership inservice education by conducting education conferences, conventions, seminars, and workshops for administrators, students, and student activity sponsors.
  • Engage in research in the field of educational administration and student leadership development and disseminate the results of such research to the public by means of journals and other appropriate publications.
  • Assist qualified individuals in the study of educational administration and student leadership development by establishing scholarship funds for that purpose.
  • Assist appropriate federal, state, and local education and other agencies in training and research programs in the field of educational administration and student leadership development.
  • Assist in identifying candidates for educational administration who have high potential for success.
  • Engage in other general activities which are supportive of the purely educational, scientific, and charitable purpose of the Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals, as the Association may direct.

For information, please contact vfel@vassp.org.