Center for the Study of Education Policy receives $4.3 million grant from US Department of Education - Illinois State University News
Illinois State University’s Center for the Study of Education Policy (CSEP) has been awarded a two-year, $4.3 million Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) Renewal grant by the U.S. Department of Education. The funding will be used to continue the Center’s work through the Together Everyone Achieves More Through Integrated Leadership project (TEAM Lead), to increase principal effectiveness in performance areas that lead to increases in student achievement. TEAM Lead engages principals and other school leaders from almost 100 public and private high-need schools in rural, suburban, and urban settings across the state. TEAM Lead involves a statewide P-20 cadre made up of Regional Offices of Education (ROEs) out of Quincy (ROE 1), Bloomington (ROE 17), Wheaton (ROE 19) and Atkinson (ROE 28); a network of Catholic schools; and four universities (Illinois State, Loyola University-Chicago, North Central College, and Western Illinois University). External evaluati...