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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
On June 30, 2018, Dr. Stephen Fink, executive director of the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership (CEL), transitions leadership of the Center to Max Silverman, currently the...
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...
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!
CEL is presenting at the AWSP/WASA Summer Conference in Spokane
On Monday, June 25, CEL's Patty Maxfield will present Connecting Student Growth to Teaching Practice at 10:15 a.m. in room 401 B, and she'll appear again in Equity in Instructional Practice at 1:10 p.m. in room 102 BC.
Summer Leadership Institute 2018
Sold out! Add your name to the waitlist and we'll contact you as spots open up
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.
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