Our Approach
Our continuous improvement/organizational development work is designed to help various kinds of educational organizations play key roles in disrupting the systemic inequality that affects the lives of and to improve the educational outcomes and life opportunities for PK-12 urban school students throughout the world. In this work we develop others to use/lead cycles of inquiry to find and solve root cause problems within organizations. This work begins with the development of an “impact logic” that helps organizations: a) clarify the proximal and distal impacts that they seek from their work, and b) design and utilize the kinds of data systems for tracking proximal and distal outcomes.
In our higher education work, we also focus attention on developing organizations to diagnose and strengthen their cultures and infrastructure (structures, tools, routines) in ways that support continuous improvement work. In our Pk-12 work, we further expand our attention to developing organizations to diagnose and strengthen a school’s distributed leadership capacity and teacher learning organization as two key resources that support continuous improvement.
In our higher education work, we also focus attention on developing organizations to diagnose and strengthen their cultures and infrastructure (structures, tools, routines) in ways that support continuous improvement work. In our Pk-12 work, we further expand our attention to developing organizations to diagnose and strengthen a school’s distributed leadership capacity and teacher learning organization as two key resources that support continuous improvement.
Our continuous improvement/organizational development work is designed to help various kinds of educational organizations play key roles in disrupting the systemic inequality that affects the lives of and to improve the educational outcomes and life opportunities for PK-12 urban school students throughout the world.
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Higher Education
LEADERSHIP PREPARATION PROGRAMS
We support continuous improvement of leadership preparation programs within higher education institutions. This work has been done with UIC’s EdD program to incubate more advanced preparation program continuous improvement work that can be ported to other work through the US and world, network learning communities of university-based leadership preparation programs, and individual leadership preparation programs through (a) long-term mentoring, or (b) day or multi-day site visits by leadership preparation programs to CUEL.
TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS
PK-12
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF PK-12
We support continuous improvement of PK-12 educational organizations as well as organizations that support neighborhood communities/schools/students. This work has been done through professional development, networked learning communities, and leadership coaching with district-level senior leadership teams or district leaders and school-level leadership teams or school leaders