It draws from the research base
in educational leadership preparation to offer support to states seeking to improve their evaluation of principal preparation programs and offers high - impact state policy examples.
On this page are publications, tools and resources designed to support states in the development and implementation of a high - quality evaluation system
for educational leadership preparation.
Preparation Program Edition (INSPIRE - PP) The INSPIRE Preparation Program Features (INSPIRE - PP) Survey is designed to describe core features
of educational leadership preparation programs.
Join UCEA for an engaging conversation detailing how members of the UCEA consortium have distinguished themselves from the broader field of
educational leadership preparation providers and addressing critics of the field.
Program evaluation is an essential tool for program improvement and UCEA has invested in the development of a number of program evaluation processes and tools that can
benefit educational leadership preparation in universities and a variety of other sectors.
In his book Building Bridges delineating the history of UCEA, Jack Culbertson notes that UCEA was influenced at its beginnings by the fundamental belief that schools and universities must work together to
improve educational leadership preparation and that «leadership was a prerequisite for human progress» (p. 24).
The Center for Urban Education Leadership and the EdD program in Urban Education Leadership have been recognized at the local, state, and national levels by organizations at the vanguard of
educational leadership preparation as well as in the media.
UCEA has a single standard of excellence for membership: superior institutional commitment and capacity to provide leadership for the advancement
of educational leadership preparation, scholarship, and practice consistent with UCEA's established mission.
As successive generations of entrepreneurs and thinkers in other sectors have revisited basic assumptions and built wholly new organizations,
educational leadership preparation has clung to aged norms.
360 Edition (INSPIRE - 360)-- This instrument enables
the educational leadership preparation program to document leadership practices and school improvement and organizational indicators in the schools where program graduates work from the perspective of subordinate teachers and superordinate district leader (s).
Leader in Practice Edition (INSPIRE - LP)-- This instrument enables
the educational leadership preparation programs to document leadership practices and school improvement and organizational indicators from the perspective of program graduates who are working as school principals.
It draws from the research base in
educational leadership preparation to propose a series of recommendations to improve current state policy and school leadership preparation program (SLPP) practices around the recruitment and selection of aspirant principal candidates.