The UIC Center for Urban Education Leadership (CUEL) announces the publication of a new study examining “intermediary organizations” as critical players in the support of school improvement, in association with the Qatar Foundation’s World Innovation Summit for...
Throughout 2021, Director Shelby Cosner has been working with The Qatar Ministry of Education and the Qatar Foundation to design and provide an in-depth leader development program for principals and their school leadership teams in Qatar. This development program...
On Monday, November 1, the Chicago Public Schools Office of Early Childhood Education (OECE) will host its annual Universal Preschool Administrator Training workshop for school leaders with new or relatively new Pre-K programs in their schools. The event is organized...
In 2013, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) began to use NWEA MAP as the backbone for its assessment and accountability systems districtwide. During the decade prior to 2013, CPS students led the nation in academic growth beyond expected gains in grades four through...
The leadership of Rockford Public Schools (RPS205) and Northern Illinois University (NIU) have lauded a new residency-based principal preparation program that was developed from technical assistance provided by UIC’s Center for Urban Education Leadership (CUEL). UIC’s...
The Center for Urban Education Leadership (CUEL) has received two gifts of up to $230K One of these gifts is from the Finnegan Family Foundation and one of these gifts is from an anonymous donor. These funds will support work that CUEL does that impacts Chicago...
In his upcoming publication, CUEL Affiliate Decoteau Irby calls attention to racial equity and its ever-shifting dynamic as our racial consciousness continues to evolve and racism asserts itself anew. Irby’s book details both the practical efforts of equity-minded...
CUEL Affiliate Jason Salisbury has recently published a new research article on educational opportunity. In this publication, CUEL Affiliate Jason Salisbury examines educational opportunities through race in urban high schools and whiteness as property. The...
CUEL is excited to announce that Jason Salisbury has been awarded the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division A (Administration) Emerging Scholar Award. The award is given by Division A in recognition of a pre-tenure scholar who has made outstanding...
Paul Zavitkovsky has just been named to Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative Advisory Board. IWERC is tasked with identifying the questions most important to Illinois policy and education leaders and then analyzing data to come up with answers that...
