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...
The LLIFT P-3 Networked Improvement Community (NIC) and the UIC Center for Urban Education Leadership (CUEL) hosted a three-hour symposium on June 25th that was the culmination of the LLIFT P-3 NIC’s first-phase of work into understanding the challenges of...
On June 10th-11th, Drs. Cynthia Barron, Shelby Cosner, and Kristine Schutz represented UIC at the inaugural EdPrep Lab convening. The Education Preparation Laboratory is a collaboration between Bank Street College (New York, NY) and the Education Policy Institute to...
On October 1, 2018, national Blue Ribbon Award Schools were announced. Only 24 schools in Illinois won the award, including private schools: about half a percent of all Illinois schools won. Three of these are UIC connected: Karen Valentine at Edison Regional Gifted...
The UIC Center for Urban Education Leadership is one of six honorees selected by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for this year’s Spotlight on Quality in Continuous Improvement. CUEL provides continuous improvement support to the EdD Program in...
Congratulations to Dr. Allison Tingwall, principal of the great Curie Metropolitan High School. Allison recently published an article titled “Drawing in the School Context as a Learning Resource in School Leader Development: Application Oriented Projects in...
