Mia Perry

A group of youth workforce development professionals engage with a facilitator of a professional development session.

Designing Professional Development for Youth Workforce Development

Building Pathways to Adulthood /

The IEL-led National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth released a brief that describes strategies and considerations for designing and delivering professional development for youth service professionals at the state and local levels. It highlights strategies, required resources, and lessons learned from three different professional development initiatives led by IEL. The brief informs the […]

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A community school coordinator is greeted with cheers and fanfare.

Community School Coordinators Appreciation Week Drives Online Engagement

Connecting Families, Schools, & Communities /

IEL’s Coalition for Community Schools and partners came together on September 25-29 for the first Coordinators Appreciation Week. There were almost 1,000 #CoordinatorsRock tweets that reached over 700,000 people—from funny gifs and ice cream socials to flowers and heartfelt handwritten notes—that celebrated and thanked their community schools coordinators. READ MORE…

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A group of educators learn together during a Equity and Diversity University with Metro Nashville Public Schools.

FCE Network Spotlight: Metro Nashville Public Schools

Connecting Families, Schools, & Communities /

IEL’s Family and Community Engagement (FCE) Network Spotlight is an opportunity for the FCE community to learn from their peers’ successes. In this interview, Allison Buzard, Equity and Diversity Coordinator at Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS), talks about her work with Equity and Diversity University (EDU), a professional development program for school professionals. Sessions cover

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A woman moderates a panel at one of the IEL-AERA policy lunches.

Celebrating 35 Years of Partnering with AERA

Preparing Leaders /

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) and IEL have been co-hosting education policy forums since 1983 as a vehicle to highlight research, policy, and practice in education. These monthly luncheons feature many of the leading researchers, thinkers, and practitioners in education. The 35th anniversary season kick off on October 19th featured Margaret Maaka University of

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EPFP fellows at IEL's annual Washington Policy Seminar.

EPFP Introduces 54th Cohort

Preparing Leaders /

IEL is proud to introduce the 54th cohort of our Education Policy Fellowship Program. Three hundred ten Fellows from 16 sites are participating in the ten-month professional development initiative in which diverse emerging and mid-level leaders learn together about education policy, leadership, and networking. These participants join an alumni network of 9,000 leaders working in

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Rebecca Cokely presents a certificate to Curtis Richards, inducting him into the Disability Mentoring Hall of Fame.

Curtis Richards Inducted Into Disability Mentoring Hall Of Fame

Leading Across Boundaries /

The National Disability Mentoring Coalition recently inducted 25 individuals and four organizations into the Susan M. Daniels Disability Mentoring Hall of Fame. Curtis Richards, the director of IEL’s Center for Workforce Development, is among this year’s honorees. The honorees — nominated by their mentees — were selected based on their dedication to mentoring and their impact on the lives

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A protestor in Charlottesville holds up a sign with a Martin Luther King Quote: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

IEL Condemns White Supremacists, Violence in Charlottesville

Leading Across Boundaries /

IEL stands up for the causes of those in high-potential communities who fight to provide opportunity in the face of poverty, trauma, and inequity. We strongly condemn the racist ideology displayed in Charlottesville and find the hateful actions of white supremacists egregious and unacceptable. To the families, communities, youth, and educational leaders we support, we

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A group of children in pajamas get ready for bed in a gymnasium shelter after flooding from Hurricane Harvey.

Support Communities in Schools Houston after Harvey

IEL Initiatives & Partnerships /

Yesterday the Houston School District reopened its doors to thousands of students who now struggle with the trauma to themselves, their families and their communities due to Hurricane Harvey. Our hearts go out to the children and parents devastated by one of our nation’s worst natural disasters. Our partners at Communities in Schools have an

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