Collaboratively Navigating the Impacts of COVID-19, SEL
CEC strongly supports the recommendations released on Tuesday, January 15th by the Aspen Institute National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development. “From a Nation at Risk to a Nation at Hope” asserts that our nation is at a turning point: We now...
School and District Improvement (formerly IL-EMPOWER), Supporting Teams
For any school improvement effort to be successful, teaching and learning – “the instructional core” – must be the North Star (Cohen and Ball, 1999). The Council of the Great City Schools (2015) found that the most improved schools were able to clearly articulate how...
School and District Improvement (formerly IL-EMPOWER), Supporting Leaders
Leaders should not underestimate the enormity of the challenge of improvement in a low performing school. In many low performing schools, even simple problems like improving student behavior in the hallways is a steep challenge. In large part it is because social and...
School and District Improvement (formerly IL-EMPOWER), Supporting Leaders
The term “school improvement” is misleading because effective improvement efforts don’t happen at schools in isolation. Instead, they are the result of system-level changes that require support and cooperation from state and local education agencies. A primary reason...
