Successful Students Need Outstanding Teachers. Effective Leaders Make That Happen.

The Center for Educational Leadership helps districts close the achievement gap through effective instruction. But teachers can't do it alone: both school and district leaders have to create a culture of learning and support for teachers to excel. Our nationally recognized experts, working with research-based methods, help all levels of a school system improve achievement for all students.

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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 EXPERTS IN THE BLOG:

Instructional Leadership in Action

Building a Better Principalship

Supporting principals as instructional leaders

Increased federal and state expectations, angry parents, discipline issues, bus problems, lockdown drills, and daily challenges are just some of the issues principals face on a daily basis. Clearly, their responsibilities...
Leading for Learning: Supporting Principals as Effective Instructional Leaders

Principals have a tough job. Every day, they face myriad of pressures and responsibilities driven by the political, social, and economic landscape in public education. Often there is not enough time to focus on what should be...
3 New Resources to Keep Your Teacher/Principal Evaluation System on Track

A few months into the second year of statewide implementation of new teacher and principal evaluation systems, most educators in Washington state seem to know their way around the new approach to evaluation and professional development. In...
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Our Latest News & Events

Now available: 4 Dimensions of Instructional Leadership™ 2.0

The University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership (CEL) has released an updated version of the 4 Dimensions of Instructional Leadership. Describing the most important aspects of instructional leadership in more detail and clarity, this...
Effective Feedback for Teacher Growth Institute 2015 in San Diego

The San Diego County Office of Education - Learning and Leadership Services Division has partnered with the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership to offer a two-day Effective Feedback for Teacher Growth Institute.

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Webinar: How School Leaders Create a Results-focused Learning Environment

One of the most significant roles – and biggest challenges – of a school leader is to create and maintain a results-focused learning environment. Schools and school districts are facing initiative overload. It takes determined leadership and...
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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

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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

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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

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