IEL uses three strategies to prepare leaders to eliminate systemic barriers for success in education and workforce development.
Preparing & Supporting Leaders
We prepare and support leaders of all ages, stages, and contexts who can work effectively across sectors. IEL leaders are champions of equity in their communities, states, and the nation.
IEL uses three strategies to prepare leaders to eliminate systemic barriers for success in education and workforce development.
Mobilizing Leaders
Wherever systems are not working to advance equity, IEL stands ready to disrupt the status quo by boldly identifying and mobilizing leaders for impact on equity and injustice issues that perpetuate discrimination.
IEL uses three strategies to prepare leaders to eliminate systemic barriers for success in education and workforce development.
Innovating
We model and simulate policy and program ideas that promise to increase access and outcomes in education, youth development, and workforce development before implementing and scaling them.
According to a recent report by the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation and the Aspen Institute’s Manufacturing and Society in the 21st Century program, manufacturing is still the greatest wealth-creating tool in the United States.
In partnership with Communities In Schools and StriveTogether, IEL's Coalition for Community Schools announced four communities that will receive a combined $3.75 million to implement student-centered blueprints for learning through the joint initiative, Together for Students.
A president’s budget request is typically the first step in a long process of determining how we should prioritize our resources. The president had a real opportunity to do right by our children. He chose a wall instead.
On January 5, IEL’s first female board chair, Dr. Bernice “Bunny” Sandler, the “Godmother of Title IX,” died peacefully. She was 90.
