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...
In collaboration with UIC’s Learning Science Research Institute, CUEL helped secure a $5 million, 5-year grant from the National Science Foundation. Led by PI Dr. Alison Castro-Superfine and Co-PIs Drs. Benjamin Superfine, Yue Yin, and Shelby Cosner, its purpose...
P.J. Karafiol hosts Governor J.B. Pritzker at Lakeview High School On June 30th, Dr. P.J. Karafiol (Cohort 12) hosted Governor J. B. Pritzker at Lakeview High School. At this convening, the Governor signed an executive order to create an “Affirming and Inclusive...
