Preparing Leaders

IEL’s Coalition for Community Schools is excited to share a new resource, the Community Schools Policy Playbook! Geared toward advocates and elected officials at the state and local levels, this playbook offers a number of resources, including sample state and local policies and funding that promote community schools, messaging on community schools, implementation resources, and

Leadership matters when it comes to community schools. Leaders for community schools put the development of students’ physical, social, emotional, moral, civic competencies, and academic achievement, high on their agenda. Join IEL’s Coalition for Community Schools every week from 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. EST for our After the School Bell webinar series focusing on

IEL’s National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth released two videos featuring members of its National Youth Action Council on Transition (YouthACT). In the video You Can Lead Too!: Youth Perspectives on Leadership young leaders share insights on what it means to be a leader and advocate. In the video Developing Successful Youth-Adult Partnerships

The 2018-19 cohort year will mark the 55th anniversary of IEL’s Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP). EPFP is a nationally recognized fellowship program that develops a diverse and collaborative community of strategic leaders for effective public policy. Since its start, EPFP has acted as an instrument for fostering a comprehensive understanding of policy issues from

IEL’s Family & Community Engagement (FCE) team at IEL attended the North Dakota Study Group’s (NDSG) annual meeting February 15-18. This year’s meeting was at Tugaloo University in Jackson, Miss., with the theme Emancipation, Equity, and Excellence: Learning from and with Activists. Since 1972, NDSG members have come together to reimagine possibilities and alternatives in

IEL, in partnership with The Freedom ’64 Project, led a bus tour retracing the civil rights movement. Participants on the learning journey engaged with student leaders from the movement in the ‘60s, as well as leaders from organizations currently working for equity and justice. Lucretia Murphy of Jobs for the Future wrote a blog post

In December, IEL had the opportunity to speak with Bridget Murphy and Tami Love from the Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA) about its Parent Mentor Program. This nationally recognized program is a wonderful example of how one community-based organization took a grassroots approach to embed itself within Chicago Public Schools and the state of Illinois,

IEL’s Appalachian Higher Education (AHE) Network published a new report, Opening Doors, Changing Futures, that tells the shared story of impact the AHE Network has had on postsecondary attainment in Appalachia from 2011-2016. The report sets out the current economic and education context in the 10-state region and highlights expanding education and training work that