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Leading for Literacy: CEL Partnership Helps District Smarten Up Practice System-Wide

The South Los Angeles County school district faced tremendous challenges. Less than one-third of its students read at proficiency level. Its high populations of English Language Learners and special education students were chronically underperforming...

Purposeful Instruction in Anchorage

A Clear Focus: Leadership Lessons in Purposeful Instruction

University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership and Anchorage School District

What if all teachers knew how to plan purposeful, standards-based lessons and learning targets with all of their students in mind? More importantly, what if each of their...

Anacortes Transforms Teacher Evaluation

Beyond 'Satisfactory': A Teacher Evaluation Pilot Focused on Professional Growth

Evaluations that tell teachers “You’re OK” or “You’re good enough” say little about actual classroom practice and provide no targets for professional growth. But that’s the evaluation system...

Principals Collaborate in Seattle

Working Together: School Leaders Problem-Solve in Professional Learning Communities

School principals in the Seattle Public Schools district are discovering the power of peer collaboration. They’ve opened the doors of their school buildings and classrooms, invited school leaders in to observe and give feedback, analyzed...

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Watch the Webinar: Beyond Principal Supervision -- How Central Offices Lead for Principal Performance

Districts nationwide are focusing on principal leadership as essential to realizing effective teaching for all students. In the process, they are creating new central office positions often called “...

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Join educators at the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership’s two-day Summer Leadership Institute, “Feedback for Teacher Growth: Tools and Processes to Support...

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Leading for Effective Teaching

Learn more about our work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on leading for effective teaching.

School and District Leaders as Instructional Experts: What We Are Learning
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5D+ Teacher Evaluation Rubric (Version 2.0)
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4 Dimensions of Instructional Leadership
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Visit the CEL online store to purchase 5D Smart Cards and classroom instruction videos that support the use of the 5 Dimensions of Teaching and Learning instructional framework.

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