Janet McCarroll is heading to the United States today after wining a Fulbright scholarship for e-learning at her school.
E-learning allows students to assess their own work and learn online.
The St Mary's Catholic School deputy principal is to attend a conference, "Leadership and Evolving Vision", at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and meet other school leaders.
She will then speak about student self-reporting at the Building Learning Communities Conference 2014 in Boston and meet other school leaders in New York.
Mrs McCarroll said they trialled the e-learning programme at St Mary's Catholic School in 2009 and implemented it the following year. The programme allowed children to assess their learning level and decide what they wanted to focus on next, she said. Students learned most effectively when they developed the ability to stand back from their ideas, engage and think about them objectively.