Summer Institute for Authentic Learning and Leadership

During a lengthy career as a teacher, principal, central-office administrator and ultimately a district superintendent, Keith Bell often preached to students that learning is a lifelong pursuit.Bell worked in six districts, almost all in central Ohio schools since starting as a high-school marketing teacher in Grove City in 1979. After retiring in 2016 from his last educational post, as superintendent of Euclid City Schools near Cleveland, Bell thought it was time to live up to the expectations he always had for his students to continue learning.So Bell, 62 at the time, went back to school to receive his doctoral degree in education. When he received it from Ohio State University, he was the second oldest doctoral student at the commencement, according to the university.He has continued his long and distinguished educational career at the Northeast Educational Service Center, and now as Instructional Facilitator of The Ohio State Student Leadership Collabortive at The Ohio State University.