Principal Profile: Bridget de la Peña

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....

Steve Tozer on early childhood education

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...

Principal Profiles: Michael Beyer

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...

Principal Profiles: Nia Abdullah

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...