Tyler Chapman Tingley is an American educator who has headed four private secondary schools, including The Blake School and Phillips Exeter Academy.
Tingley began his career as a teacher of English at Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford, CT.[4] After holding a variety of administrative positions there, he was named its headmaster in 1986,[1] 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.
[1][2][3] Under his leadership, Exeter offered free tuition to lower-income families[3][6] and changed its rules to allow gay and lesbian faculty couples to serve as live-in role models in school dormitories.
[3] He is a trustee of United World College-USA, Shady Hill School and the Edward E. Ford Foundation.