The World Innovation Summit in Education (WISE) has selected CUEL Director Shelby Cosner to serve as a mentor in their year-long fellowship program. Her mentoring will focus on supporting the development of a school leader learning design for the Rio de Janeiro State...
We are excited to share the new special issue journal just published by the Journal of Research on Leadership Education (JRLE) and guest edited by Shelby Cosner, CUEL Director. This journal takes a deeper look into next generation active learning designs in...
Dr. Shelby Cosner, CUEL Director, gave a virtual talk on June 23 for an online global gathering of roughly 350 policy experts and analysts, national education leaders, and educators at the event “Education Disrupted, Education Reimagined-Part II.” This...
The Center for Urban Education Leadership (CUEL) has received a grant from the Steans Family Foundation to provide leader development to a group of North Lawndale elementary principals. This will continue the CUEL’s Leaders for Literacy (LL4L) project that is...
Dr. Shelby Cosner, the Director of UIC’s Center for Urban Education Leadership, has been invited to give this year’s Willower Family Lecture at the University of Buffalo. This lecture series was established in 2000 through an endowment gift by the Willower...
UIC’s Center for Urban Education Leadership (CUEL) received a $250,0000 grant from the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation that will support a two year design-based leadership development project within the Chicago Public Schools. This spring a UIC/CPS Practice Partnership...
Meagan Richard, a graduate research assistant in CUEL and a third-year Ph.D. student in the Policy Studies in Urban Education program, has just received three prestigious national awards. She has been selected to attend this year’s David L. Clark Graduate...
In November 2019, Dr. Shelby Cosner, Director of UIC’s Center for Urban Education Leadership was selected by UCEA plenum members to serve on UCEA’s nine-member Executive Committee. UCEA is a consortium of over 100 higher educational institutions throughout...
Chicago Public Schools leader and University of Illinois at Chicago alumna Janice Jackson returned to UIC recently as part of a panel that looked at exemplary school districts and discussed how school leaders have helped make them worth modeling. The Oct. 8 discussion...
Joseph Shoffner Joins the UIC Leadership Coaching Team We would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest Leadership Coach and UIC EdD alumni, Dr. Joseph Shoffner (Cohort 7). Shoffner joins the UIC coaching faculty with a wealth of experience. Over his 13 years in...
