During 2020-2021 school year, CUEL is hosting a remote networked learning community for interested principals and assistant principals. Read the details here.
CUEL is excited to share findings from our recent study of social justice and activist-oriented school leadership. This work identifies more community-centered activist leadership work and the factors that shaped this work and considers the ways in which market-based...
We are excited to share Salisbury’s work recently published in Leadership and Policy in Schools. Salisbury’s research presents a counterstory to traditional views of leadership by demonstrating how two groups of youth of color drew on their community...
Dr. Shelby Cosner, CUEL Director, was a part of an expert panel on principal development for a global convening for roughly 100 school leader researchers and developers experts in a remote convening organized by South Africa’s Partners for Possibilities. Dr....
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...
