St. Michael the Archangel Catholic School in Chicago’s far south side, led by EdD Urban Education Leadership graduate Bridget de la Peña, earned a Polk Leadership Incentive grant to bolster the school’s supplies and increase access to enrollment through scholarships....
Early childhood education has not always been considered a critical area of focus for school principals. Center for Education Leadership Director Steve Tozer, EdD, is working with state legislators to re-envision school leadership as encompassing a continuum from...
When Michael Beyer, EdD Urban Education Leadership, Cohort 7 at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Education, first arrived as principal at Morrill Math and Science School on Chicago’s Southwest side in 2011, he found a school in physical disarray. “One...
Bowen High School towers above the two-story single-family homes surrounding the school in the neighborhood of South Chicago. Just two blocks from the high concrete walls of the Chicago Skyway, the four-story brick building casts an imposing presence on a bitterly...
When the wave of education reform starts at the national level, the national policy discussion often takes place at the macro level. When education reforms hit the local school level, does the policy discussion continue? That’s a question explored by the College’s...
