Cultivating Schools:
One Leader at a Time
Our Vision
CLEE transforms systems and empowers collaborative leadership to create environments where every child engages in learning that unleashes their unlimited potential and joy.
The Challenge
Education systems do not serve students well as individuals despite decades of efforts. Accountability policies and traditional professional development are not getting the results our students need. Worse, these efforts can limit student outcomes by sorting and labeling students; reinforcing stereotypes; and blaming, rather than empowering educators to learn together and take risks.
This creates barriers for the depth of collaboration needed among stakeholders (students, families, educators, administrators, and policymakers) to transform systems and educator capacity for change.
CLEE’s Approach to Meeting the Challenge
Uses a human development approach to address these barriers, creating common understanding, and allowing stakeholders to be receptive to growth and committed to improvement.
Centered on real-world experience, CLEE’s programs provide authentic, community-based, transformational learning.
Practices are based on research and data-driven models, utilizing methodologies with two decades of measured success, and incorporating continuous cycles of improvement based on empirical research.
What People Are Saying
”“At this point I have had and have witnessed many 'A-ha!' moments which were as much about us as human beings as leaders. The exposure to all of these things along with deep reflection has led me to feel both empowered and helpless. At times I feel as though this is the right path for me, that I have what it takes to be a great leader and then I am humbled by my own reflections into how hard this actually is. It is not the tasks that are so challenging as it is the having to understand who we are deep inside, how we want to develop ourselves to transform the world around us into a better place.”
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