Sometimes you need to see strong healthy living partnerships in action. IEL’s Coalition for Community Schools recently organized site visits for members of its Community Schools Leadership Network. Participants visited two Bay Area community schools to see how their partnerships focused on physical and mental health have positive impacts on students. These schools were Cherryland […]
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Recent growth of a “culture of health” has included the principle that health is influenced by complex factors that must be addressed by collaborating systems. More than 25 years ago, IEL and the National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality supported the National Health/Education Consortium, a group that advanced cross-boundary community health solutions and the notion that
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Seeking insight into some of the most challenging questions on race and equity still left unanswered in America, a bus full of community college faculty and education leaders, including Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP) participants, embarked on a civil rights bus tour in late November. Their journey took them to historic civil rights movement sites
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Transformative, visionary, inspiring, life-changing, empowering: Words that IEL’s Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP) alumni use to describe their EPFP experience, whether they were in the program last year or fifty years ago. EPFP focuses on three pillars: policy, leadership, and networking. This approach invites leaders learn from each other across systems. EPFP has graduated over
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IEL’s Coalition for Community Schools is working in conjunction with Communities in Schools and StriveTogether to leverage our national networks to better enable every student to thrive. This growing partnership will help us align our assets and expertise across networks, school districts, and communities. We are better together when we coordinate efforts to support children
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The IEL-led National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth released a series of briefs for community colleges: Supporting Student Success through Connecting Activities. Community college leaders are increasingly concerned with finding ways to better support and engage students to improve college completion rates. The series highlights the importance of connecting postsecondary students to services and
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IEL’s community schools work was highlighted at this year’s International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement in Ottawa, Canada.The event focused on collaborative partnership.
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IEL’s board of directors appointed Dr. Johan E. Uvin as IEL’s the sixth president. Uvin was the Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education at the U.S. Department of Education.
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Last year, 45 education leaders visited historic sites from the civil rights movement throughout Mississippi and Alabama and learned lessons from past and current leaders.
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The Department of Labor, in collaboration with the Council of State Governments and National Conference of State Legislatures, released a report based on the career development work of IEL and it’s partners.
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