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
IN THE BLOG:Instructional Leadership in Action
Teachers learn all the time: from students, from trial and error, and from each other. We know that as teachers strive to create powerful learning experiences for all the students in front of them, they are...
Despite the overall strong performance of Oregon's West-Linn Wilsonville School District in 2011, everyone knew that the work of closing achievement gaps was not complete. For...
News and Events
We're hiring a Director - Instructional Leadership
Are you interested in working at the forefront of educational reform across the country? If you are smart, creative and energetic, we are looking for you! For timely consideration, please submit your application by April 30, 2018.
Summer Leadership Institute 2018
Sold out! Join the waitlist today!
Join the Center for Educational Leadership in Seattle on July 10-11, 2018 for two days that will forever improve your approach to teacher professional learning.
AASA National Principal Supervisor Academy
Application deadline extended to May 15, 2018
The academy will meet three times in person in Alexandria, Virginia: July 25-26, 2018; November 7-8, 2018; and April 10-11, 2019. The program will be limited to 60 participants.
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