Mia Perry

IEL is pleased to announce that Tauheedah Jackson, former IEL Director of Place-Based Strategy and Community School Initiatives and current Inaugural Director of The EdRedesign Lab’s Institute for Success Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has joined IEL’s Board of Directors. Tauheedah partners with local communities and nationwide networks, intermediaries, and other organizations […]

The first ever Youth Education Policy Fellowship, led by the Institute for Educational Leadership’s Immigrant and Refugee Youth Leadership Coordinator Sabrina Sheikh, was created to strengthen engagement, and increase advocacy capacity for youth connected to Community Schools. On May 7th, IEL and the Coalition for Community Schools celebrated the hard work that these inaugural students have

The Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) is saddened by the recent passing of Judith “Judy” Heumann, an icon in the disability inclusion movement, and longtime friend and mentor of IEL. Although we mourn this great loss, Judy’s vast legacy of disability rights advocacy will forever have an impact on people living with disabilities, including children

On behalf of the Coalition for Community Schools, the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) applauds the U.S. Department of Education’s announcement that it has awarded a diverse group of 42 new Full-Service Community School grantees. The Department of Education launched its latest Full Service Community Schools (FSCS) Grant Competition in Summer 2022, and the Coalition

Policy by the People Agenda  Summary of federal policy action this past month and a look-ahead to the next few weeks/month  Supreme Court Hears Case on Affirmative Action at Harvard and UNC: On October 31st, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard and Students