Leading Across Boundaries

In 2000 and 2001, IEL released a four-part series entitled Leadership for Student Learning. A product of IEL’s School Leadership for the 21st Century initiative, the series raised public awareness about problems facing education leadership. The series addresses how educational leaders can be effective to lead successful students and schools. The initiative successfully brought many […]

IEL and the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) hosted the inaugural Samuel Halperin Lecture and Youth Public Service Award. The lecture and award serve as a tribute to Halperin, a former IEL president and AYPF founder, who dedicated his career to advancing education, workforce, and youth policy. This year, the Ford Foundation’s Hilary Pennington was

IEL is convening the 2nd National Family & Community Engagement Conference—Shaping Our Future by Leading Together: Families, Schools, and Communities—in Chicago from June 22-24. The conference will lift up the work taking place across Chicago and Illinois. While honoring local and regional work, this year’s conference will examine other innovative initiatives across the country through

In 2000 and 2001, as part of our School Leadership for the 21st Century work, IEL released the Leadership for Student Learning series, raising awareness about crises facing education leaders. Topics included “Reinventing the Principalship,” “Redefining the Teacher as Leader,” “Recognizing the State’s Role in Education,” and “Urban School Leadership.” Although the series is now

IEL’s Cross-Boundary Leaders for Education and Equity Symposium created an objective, open-minded, nonpartisan space where leaders could come together to discuss complex issues facing public education and explore forward-thinking solutions. The Symposium consisted of three panels: Preparing Leaders for Public Education Family Engagement in Education Pathways to Success READ MORE AND WATCH THE VIDEOS…

The Institute for Educational Leadership has always been ahead of the curve. In 1985, Harold Hodgkinson, a renowned demographer who ran IEL’s Center for Demographic Policy, published a seminal report, All One System: Demographics of Education, Kindergarten through Graduate School. The report was significant in laying out trends we see today – a growing number