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About the College
Making a Difference
Design new models
Confront our world’s educational realities with radical new approaches.
We create and act on groundbreaking ideas. From Nancy Hertzog’s work with gifted University of Washington teenage students to John Bransford’s leadership at the Learning in Informal and Formal Environments (LIFE) Center, we bring expertise and inventive thinking to improving education.
For example, the UW Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (ISME) has partnered with Bellevue School District, the College Board, The Washington STEM Center and other local organizations in a successful proposal to the U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation (i3) program. The project, Reimagining Career and College Readiness: STEM, Rigor, and Equity in a Comprehensive High School, has received $4.1 million in i3 funding and over $900k in matching funds and in-kind support from private organizations.
Susan Sandall and Gail Joseph are on the frontlines of Head Start with their recent award of a $40 million grant to collaborate on creation of the National Center on Quality Teaching and Learning. This monumental opportunity will help America’s youngest learners prepare for and succeed in school.
The Center for Educational Leadership’s (CEL) work is based on a body of research from the University of Washington and CEL affiliated faculty. CEL’s work rests upon the critical assumption that the single most important factor in supporting student learning is the quality of classroom instruction. To achieve that goal, CEL cultivates the expertise, leadership skills, content and instructional knowledge and abilities of teachers, coaches, principals, and district leaders. CEL provides leadership coaching, facilitated instructional walkthroughs, content coaching (literacy and mathematics), support for central office transformation and classroom instructional DVDs in schools and districts across the nation.
James A.Banks, who serves as director of the University of Washington’s Center for Multicultural Education, has been a leader in efforts to increase educational equality for all students around the world for more than three decades. He was the first African-American to receive tenure at the UW and has served as past president of the American Educational Research Association as well as the National Council for the Social Studies, among many other honors. Banks is the first UW Endowed Chair of Diversity Studies.