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EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN THE BLOG:

Instructional Leadership in Action

Announcing our 2017-2018 lineup of CEL Leadership Institutes
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 Transitioning from Version 2 to Version 3 of the 5D+™ Rubric

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Educational Leadership News and Events

Announcing our 2017-2018 lineup of CEL Leadership Institutes

The University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership is offering its most popular leadership institutes on multiple dates throughout the 2017-2018 school year. Choose the institutes and dates that fit your professional development needs and schedule.

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

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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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