Tyler C. Tingley is an American educator who has headed four private secondary schools including The Blake School.

Education

Tingley received his undergraduate training at Harvard College

Harvard College

Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees...

, receiving an A.B. in 1968 and his M.Ed. and Ed.D. degrees from Harvard Graduate School of Education

Harvard Graduate School of Education

The Harvard Graduate School of Education is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University, and is one of the top schools of education in the United States. It was founded in 1920, the same year it invented the Ed.D...

 in 1976 and 1982.

Career

Tingley began his career as a teacher of English at Kingswood-Oxford School

Kingswood-Oxford School

Kingswood Oxford School is a private day school located in West Hartford, Connecticut. Originally two separate schools, Kingswood School and Oxford School for boys and girls respectively, KO is now a co-educational institution and offers grades 6 through 12...

 in West Hartford, CT. After holding a variety of administrative positions there, he was named its headmaster in 1986, 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.

From 1991 to 1997 he was the principal of Blake School in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...

. While he was principal, the school was twice named a National School of Excellence.

Fom 1997–2009 he was principal of Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy is a private secondary school located in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the United States.Exeter is noted for its application of Harkness education, a system based on a conference format of teacher and student interaction, similar to the Socratic method of learning through asking...

. Under his leadership Exeter offered free tuition to lower-income families and changed its rules to allow gay and lesbian faculty couples to serve as live-in role models in school dormitories.

In 2009 he became co-head of Avenues: The World School

Avenues: The World School

Avenues: The World School is a planned international system of independent pre-K-12 schools, with its first campus in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood scheduled to open in Fall 2012. Avenues plans to open 20 or more schools in other cities around the world over the next decade...

Tingley has served as president of the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools and the Minnesota Association of Independent Schools.. He has also been a director of the National Association of Independent Schools

National Association of Independent Schools

The National Association of Independent Schools is a U.S.-based membership organization for private, nonprofit, K-12 schools. Founded in 1963, NAIS represents independent schools and associations in the United States, including day, boarding, and day/boarding schools; elementary and secondary...

 and president of the Headmasters Association. He is a trustee of United World College-USA, Shady Hill School

Shady Hill School

Shady Hill School is an independent, co-educational day school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1915, Shady Hill serves students in pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. The school has an enrollment of approximately 500 students.Current Shady Hill Head of School Mark Stanek became the...

and the Edward E. Ford Foundation.