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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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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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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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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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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In the Lower Price Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, the community has transformed an abandoned row house that served as a crack house into a renovated early childhood center that supports the neighborhood’s youngest residents. This center, connected to the Oyler Community Learning Center, a Pre-K-12 school building, is part of Cincinnati Public Schools’ district-wide
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This summer, the House and Senate passed their separate bills to replace No Child Left Behind of 2002, the current federal education law. Education stakeholders are hopeful Congress will finish a bill this year to replace what most agree is a broken law. The Senate’s bill contains several wins for the community schools movmement, including
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Working in partnership with the East Carolina University (ECU) College of Education and the UCEA Center for Educational Leadership and Social Justice at Duquesne University, IEL successfully launched our first summer institute on July 20-24, 2015 at ECU in Greenville, NC. Unlike a major conference, the four-day summer learning exchange “Breathing Joy and Justice into
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California State Board of Education President Michael Kirst spoke with IEL before his July AERA/IEL Educational Policy Forum. He shared experiences from his career, leadership lessons, and thoughts on the changing California policy landscape. Kirst emphasized the importance of building coalitions to lead across boundaries. “I hope to get education leaders and policymakers in a
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During spring cleaning earlier this year, IEL got new chairs for the office’s conference rooms, but didn’t want the old ones to go into the trash. Instead, Maame Appiah, Director of Operations & Network Development for IEL’s Coalition for Community Schools, sent them to Ghana. Maame’s family members run Mother’s Love Kids Foundation Centre, a
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