Services We Provide

CEL supports a yearlong professional learning experience onsite within a school system or across a region. Aspiring or current school administrators, instructional coaches, teacher leaders, or central office leaders engage in whole group and job-embedded learning. Support from CEL creates a shared vision and language for high-quality instruction, helps participants know what to look for in classrooms and how to look for it, and develops participants’ abilities to provide targeted feedback and plan for teachers’ professional learning.

CEL provides the Measures of Instructional Leadership Expertise (MILE) as a resource to support professional learning in your school or school system. The MILE is an online, performance-based assessment that provides independent measures of one’s expertise in observation and analysis, providing feedback to teachers, leading professional learning and the crosscutting skill of adopting an inquiry stance in one’s leadership.

The 5 Dimensions of Teaching and Learning™ (5D) is a research-based instructional framework composed of the core elements that constitute high-quality teaching. CEL provides contextualized professional learning to build powerful understanding of the 5 Dimensions and how to apply them in support of improving instruction: Purpose, Student Engagement, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Assessment for Student Learning, and Classroom Environment and Culture.

Using CEL’s research-based 5 Dimensions of Teaching and Learning™ instructional framework and 5D+ Teacher Evaluation Rubric, CEL supports school and school system readiness to use teacher evaluation for improvement by developing skills and mindsets for productive evaluation processes. Either in-person or online, participants will develop their understanding and expertise in using the 5D Instructional Framework and 5D+ Rubric. CEL also provides professional learning for Rater Reliability and Summative Scoring.