General News

Join educators in Seattle at the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership’s four-day Summer Leadership Institute.

School Leadership Briefing recently interviewed Dr. Stephen Fink, CEL's executive director about school leadership and instructional improvement.

In Bergenfield, New Jersey, CEL is using guided classroom walkthroughs to help supervisors improve their observations and analysis of instruction.

Minneapolis’ Northside Achievement Zone was awarded a 5-year, $28 million Promise Neighborhoods Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Connecting Common Core State Standards with instructional improvement is imperative if we are to eliminate the achievement gap.

Districts across the nation have invested heavily in coaching as a way to grow a high-quality teaching staff—a key goal of state and federal reforms.

They say nothing succeeds like success, and the UW College of Education’s Center for Educational Leadership is celebrating 10 years of fine work with school districts regionally and across th

On October 14th, 2011, CEL will co-present with leaders from the Shoreline School District to share how they're implementing the 5D Instructional Framework district-wide to increase student ach

Join CEL experts, researchers, and school district colleagues from across the nation in Olympia, Washington, on June 2, 2011 to learn about the latest findings on central district office transformation and how you can harness its potential to improve student achievement in your district beginning in 2011-12. Read more

Dr. Stephen Fink, CEL's Executive Director, presented at the AASA National Conference in February. In this session he provided an overview of powerful new research illustrating the level of instructional expertise among school and district leaders across the country. Watch a preview of the presentation.