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...
Dr. Shelby Cosner, Director of UICs Center for Urban Education Leadership gave a series of talks in Doha, Qatar in December 2021 as part of the World Innovation Summit in Education. These talks spanned several topics of relevance to national Ministries of Education,...
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...
