Center for Leadership and Learning Communities

Supporting education leaders and the learning community they create.

Current CLLC News

Lights, Camera, Education!

Quality instruction is often described as being rigorous, student-centered, and active, but bringing those concepts to life is not always easy for educators. EDC is working with an award-winning filmmaker and production company to create a toolkit that will use video to model strategies that teachers and school leaders can implement in their schools.
The professional development toolkit.... Full Story

Publication: 
EDC Update
Publication Date: 
Spring 2009

EDC to Evaluate Influence of School Districts on University Principal Prep Programs

The Wallace Foundation has comissioned an 18-month study by the Center for Leadership and Learning Communities (CLLC) at EDC to evaluate the relationships between school districts and their local universities in preparing principals to lead urban schools. CLLC will conduct the national evaluation, focusing on school districts that receive funding from.... Full Story

Publication: 
EDC Newsroom
Publication Date: 
May 2008

Spotlight on Staff: Geometry for the Gaming Generation

Mark Driscoll and his team developed tools to prepare teachers to advance geometric thinking in students in grades 5–10.
Children today, raised on computers and video games, actually think differently than do children of previous generations. This is a challenge to teachers who must understand and engage students who think and reason differently than they did when they went to school. To help bridge that gap..... Full Story

Publication: 
EDC Staff Spotlight
Publication Date: 
May 2008