Michaela Fray, IL-PART District University Partnership Coordinator and Jill Reis, Regional Superintendent of ROE #1 presented Growing Success: The Need for Rural Schools to Collaboratively Succession Plan to Grow and Sustain Their Leadership Pipelines at the National Rural Education Association Conference in Columbus, Ohio on October 13, 2017.
Erika Hunt has joined the Statewide Research Steering Committee to explore the question of whether and how we might strengthen our ability to use data and drive research at the state level to improve educational practice and policy across the birth-workforce continuum.
The best way to have systematic improvement is by building regional capacity. Through distributed leadership practices and an intentional focus on instructional improvements, principals will have more time to engage teachers in efforts that lead to improved student outcomes.
Illinois State University’s Center for the Study of Education Policy has been awarded a three-year, $12.5 million Supporting Effective Educator Development grant by the U.S. Department of Education.
Few issues over the last several decades have been the subject of more talk, reports, initiatives, and debate than the persistent gaps in college success for underserved students.
Jim Applegate, a visiting professor in Illinois State’s Center for the Study of Education Policy, is helping facilitate this year’s ISU Leadership Initiative.
Lisa Hood joins a panel discussion at the Promising Math Program on October 13, 2017.
Sharing a Vision Conference in Peoria, IL
On Monday, September 25, Lisa Hood presented Part 1 of the 2-part series on Student Learning Objectives in the evaluation process in Early Child Classrooms. Part 2 of this series was presented on October 2, by Drs. Hood & Pam Rosa.
On September 20, Lisa Hood a member of the Early Development Instrument Advisory Committee attended the 2nd convening to receive an update on the use of the EDI in 4 communities in Illinois.
