Mia Perry, Author at Institute for Educational Leadership

Designing Statewide Career Development Strategies & Programs

Building Pathways to Adulthood / Mia Perry

The IEL-led National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth released Designing Statewide Career Development Strategies & Programs. The guide will help policymakers implement high-quality, comprehensive statewide career development programs to help all youth, including those with disabilities, become college and career ready. The first part of the guide is a primer to quality youth career development systems. The […]

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A group of students at a community school in Baltimore, Maryland hold hands during a teamwork activity.

New Every Student Succeeds Act Lifts Up Community Schools

Federal Government, Policy/Legislation / Mia Perry

Today, the president signed the new Every Student Succeeds Act, the nation’s most significant federal education law, replacing the often unpopular and problematic No Child Left Behind Act.

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A group of youth, mentors, and staff from Peckham, the Right Turn site in Lansing, Michigan pose for a group photo during a restorative justice community service project winterizing homes for the elderly.

IEL Expands Wraparound Juvenile Justice Work in 4 New Communities

IEL Initiatives & Partnerships / Mia Perry

IEL announced the selection of four sites across the country to be included in the second cohort for its Right Turn Career-Focused Transition Initiative for youth in the juvenile justice system.

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IEL Staff Interviewed for Series on Women in Education Leadershp

IEL Initiatives & Partnerships, IEL Leaders / Mia Perry

Esteem Journal recently interviewed IEL’s Helen Janc Malone as part of a yearlong series on the public scholarship of women in educational leadership.

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Southern Education Foundation President to Chair IEL Board

IEL Leaders / Mia Perry

IEL announced C. Kent McGuire, president of the Southern Education Foundation, as the ninth chair of the organization’s board of directors. McGuire succeeds S. Decker Anstrom, who will remain a member of the board.

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Jamie Kendall rides a red scooter at an amusement park.

IEL Honors Life & Memory of Jamie Kendall

IEL Leaders / Mia Perry

Last week Jamie Kendall died; she was a longtime friend of IEL. Most recently, Kendall was acting director of the Independent Living Administration at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Three district leaders discuss challenges and successes in their work at our Nashville learning lab.

District Leaders Share Successes and Challenges in Nashville Learning Lab

Events, IEL Initiatives & Partnerships / Mia Perry

Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) hosted a Learning Lab convening of the District Leaders Network on Family and Community Engagement (FCE) on November 9-10, 2015. The Learning Lab is an annual meeting designed to provide District Leaders with the opportunity to explore and learn from the successes and challenges of a specific district in order

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How Empowering Teachers Can Flip Global Education Reform

IEL Initiatives & Partnerships / Mia Perry

IEL staff Helen Janc Malone and Reuben Jacobson contributed to a recent book and highlighted strategies community schools use to flip the system and empower teachers to redesign equity-driven education reform.

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A group of young people in "volunteer" t-shirts participate in a service learning activity.

Fostering Inclusive Volunteering & Service Learning

Building Pathways to Adulthood / Mia Perry

Recently, the IEL-led National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth) released a new guide, Fostering Inclusive Volunteering and Service Learning. The guide seeks to help youth service professionals integrate youth with disabilities and other disconnected youth into service learning and volunteering opportunities and activities. This guide provides useful information on facilitating youth engagement

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Headshots: Allan Brizaela, Sarah Funes, and Anjali Forber Pratt

We Are the ADA Generation

Building Pathways to Adulthood / Mia Perry

This summer, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) turned 25. The ADA impacted missions and fostered the ADA Generation, a group of young people with disabilities who came of age under the ADA’s aegis. The ADA generation experienced more equality and access to opportunity in education, the workforce, and the community than their predecessors. IEL

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