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What’s Next: Schooling or Learning?
Mar 31, 2020 | Educational Leadership, Instructional leadership, Professional Learning
By GREG SOMMERS Our current wave of school closures is yielding an unprecedented shift to online and distance learning. Some are meeting this shift with a surge of enthusiasm for innovation. Others are approaching it more cautiously. I wonder — for my own children and...
Principal as the Turning Point: EduTalks 2020
Mar 20, 2020 | Educational Leadership, Instructional leadership, Professional Learning, School Leadership
While the impact teachers make on learning is well-understood, there’s less appreciation for how principals can foster learning environments that empower students. In this six-minute video, Joanna Michelson, director of teacher leadership and learning at the UW Center...
Acknowledging Courage on Display
Mar 18, 2020 | Instructional leadership, School Leadership, The Throughline
CEL's mission is to support the work of courageous education leaders across the country. The leaders we work with show their courage each and every day in classrooms, schools and school system central offices. Over these past couple of weeks, I’ve observed with awe...
How Principals Learn
Mar 16, 2020 | Educational Leadership, Instructional leadership
I wanted to share with you that the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) recently released a study that the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership (CEL) was part of. Principals are vitally important for achieving educational equity, and there are...
A Decade of Rigorous Teaching, Leading and Learning
Jan 7, 2020 | Educational Leadership, Instructional leadership, Student-centered
On behalf of our team at the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership, I am writing to wish a happy and peaceful new year to all of CEL’s partners, peers and supporters. I write this year with hope and optimism for what the coming decade will hold...