This week, faculty from the University of Texas at Austin (UT), joined the Center for Urban Education Leadership (CUEL) and UIC Ed.D. team to learn more about how to construct an equity-oriented, exemplary leadership preparation program–with a closer...
CUEL Director Cosner has been awarded $100K from The Wallace Foundation for work that she and others from UIC will support in two US settings (Portland State University in collaboration with the Portland Public Schools and UT-Austin in collaboration with San Antonio...
Laquita Louie and Paul Zavitkovsky (CUEL Affiliates) spoke to three different audiences at the Dylan Wiliam International Conference on Formative Assessment held from April 12 through April 14. At the conference, Louie and Zavitkovsky discussed evidence from Chicago...
CUEL Director Shelby Cosner traveled to San Diego to serve as one of 10 Faculty Mentors at the David L. Clark National Research Seminar in Educational Administration & Policy Sponsored by the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA). This seminar...
On April 1 CUEL Director Shelby Cosner was a part of a panel for the CEEDAR Center webinar on recruiting and sustaining a diverse and culturally-responsive K-12 education (principal and teacher) workforce and pipeline, hosted jointly by @UCEA and @CeedarCenter. Reach...
The UIC Center for Urban Education Leadership (CUEL) has received a $250,000 grant from the Lloyd L. Fry Foundation to support a two year leadership development project (2022-2024) that is being enacted in partnership with the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). This...
CUEL’s Faculty Affiliate, Paul Zavitkovksy, was featured on “The 21st” which is an Illinois’ statewide news talk show produced by Illinois Public Media. You can access this complete podcast series here and you can access this specific podcast...
Cynthia Barron, who is a CUEL Faculty Affiliate, served on an expert panel that discussed the role of clinical faculty members in university-based administration and leadership departments/programs. The American Education Research Association’s (AERA) Division...
In this provocative essay, CUEL’s Lionel Allen, who was tapped by then CPS CEO Arne Duncan and the founders of the Excellence Schools Academy to lead one of the first No Child Left Behind turnaround schools in 2006, both reflects back on this experience and...
Throughout the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era, and especially following Race to the Top–two notable federal policies—NWEA’s Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessments and other standardized interim assessments have become a common fixture of the...