Discover CEL’s Coordinated Approach to Student Learning
School Leadership
Helping district leaders and principals observe, analyze and lead for high-quality instruction.
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Teaching Effectiveness
Developing the teaching expertise necessary to ensure that all students learn at high levels.
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District Leadership
Helping district leaders to develop policies, practices and structures that support principals and teachers in delivering high-quality instruction.
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CEL’s Tools for Leadership and Instruction
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN THE BLOG:Instructional Leadership in Action
What does it mean for a school system to cultivate or build instructional leadership at scale? In the June 2017 issue of Learning Forward's journal, The Learning...
Close to 150 educators from across the country came together for the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership’s annual institute for school and district leaders. The Summer...
Educational Leadership News and Events
AASA National Principal Supervisor Academy
(Apply by August 15)
AASA, the school superintendents association, has partnered with the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership to bring CEL's Principal Supervisor Professional Development Program to all central office leaders who support principals' instructional leadership growth as their primary responsibility.
Webinar: Transitioning from Version 2 to Version 3 of the 5D+™ Rubric (August 23, 2017)
In this webinar, Patty Maxfield, CEL’s director of teacher evaluation, highlights changes from the previous version of the 5D+ Rubric and explains what educators using the tool in their practice need to keep in mind when switching to the updated rubric.
ACSA 2017 Leadership Summit
(November 3, 2017 in San Jose, CA)
CEL's Stephen Fink and colleagues from Paramount School District will present "How much do your school leaders know about improving teaching and learning?" at the annual leadership summit of the Association of California School Administrators.
Why School Systems Choose CEL
The chance to be coached as an instructional leader is one of the best things that ever happened to me professionally.
Charles Ransom, Superintendent and former principal, Woodburn school district, Oregon
CEL has helped my practice become much more student-centered and much less me-centered.
Carrie Howell, high school teacher, The Academy of Citizenship and Empowerment, SeaTac, Washington
CEL has created this urgency in a place where it didn’t exist before. It’s this idea of reaching 100 percent of the students and making them 100 percent successful, 100 percent of the time.
MICHELLE ROOKS, INSTRUCTIONAL COACH, TETON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT #1, WYOMING