Call for Nominees - 2012 Excellence in Educational Leadership Award

The UCEA Executive Committee is accepting nominations from UCEA Member Institutions for the 16th Annual Educational Leadership Award, in recognition of practicing school administrators who have made significant contributions to the improvement of administrator preparation.

Click here to download the Call for Nominees and Nomination Form.

The deadline is Mar 12, 2012.

Call for Proposals - UCEA Convention 2012

UCEA is pleased to share its Call for Proposals for the 2012 UCEA Annual Convention. The Convention theme, “The Future Is Ours: Leadership Matters,” recognizes that not only is the field of university-based leadership preparation changing in response to numerous political, demographic, technological, and economic dynamics, but also we, as leaders in the field, must help create that future. Convention proposals are due by May 7, 2012 and the proposal sumission site will open April 1, 2012.  

The 2012 convention will premier two new session formats, unconference and Ignite sessions, which provide purposeful opportunities for in-depth, spontaneous dialogues and deliberations on topics critical to educational leadership and a film festival.  To participate in the film festival, participants will submit 5-minute digital film clips for consideration by July 31, 2012. Calls for both convention proposals and video submissions are available online and in the forthcoming UCEA Review. 

The 26^th annual UCEA Convention will be held at the City Center Marriott in Denver, Colorado, from November 15-18.  

Free Webinar Invitation: ELCC Reports and the New NCATE/ELCC Standards

Workshop: ELCC Reports and the New NCATE/ELCC Standards/ Free UCEA Sponsored Webinar  Presenter:  Honor Fede, ELCC Review Committee  Questions?  Contact Kirstine Sigloh, UCEA HQ, kms3v@virginia.edu  Description:  This is a free UCEA sponsored Webinar. The Educational Leadership Constituent Council (ELCC) has recently adopted a new set of standards based on the revised Interstate School Leadership Licensure Standards (ISLLC). This change has important implications for the types of data programs should collect and how that data should be reported. Honor Fede, Director of the ELCC, is offering a workshop to faculty who are preparing their ELCC Reports and for faculty who have served or are interested in serving as ELCC reviewers. The first portion of this workshop will focus primarily on the new standards and their implications for ELCC report preparation and the final  portion will focus primarily on reviewer updates.

Register for a session now by clicking a date below:   Mon, Jan 30, 2012 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM EST

Once registered you will receive an email confirming your registration with information you need to join the webinar.

System Requirements PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Macintosh®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer

SC Primary Aftermath

Navigate to the Policy Work and Advocacy page for the SC Primary Blog and a link to the results.

Announcing the 2012 UCEA Program Centers Graduate Student Fellowship (GSF)

Purpose:  The UCEA GSF aims to provide research, mentoring and career development opportunities for an outstanding graduate student who is enrolled in an UCEA member educational  leadership program and intends to enter the professoriate.  The UCEA Program Center fellow will receive a stipend of $5,000.

Where:   The fellow will be eligible to be in residence for six to eight weeks during the summer at one of the eight current UCEA programs centers**.

UCEA Program Centers: 

• UCEA Joint Program Center for the Study of the Superintendency and District Governance


• UCEA Center for Educational Leadership and Social Justice


• UCEA Center for the Study of Leadership in Urban Schools


• UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE)


• UCEA Center for the Study of Leadership & Ethics


• UCEA Center for the Study of Academic Leadership


• UCEA Center for the Study of School Site Leadership


• The National Center for the Evaluation of Educational Leadership Preparation and Practice

 For more information on the centers and their locations go to: http://www.ucea.org/program-centers/ 

** Contingent upon acceptance from individual centers to host a student.

Time Frame:  The UCEA GSF is a six to eight week program that will commence in June of 2012 and continue through the end of July 2012. This timeframe can be re-arranged for another time during calendar year 2012 if mutually agreed upon between the Program Center and fellow.

Due: February 20, 2012

Student Application Process: Application materials from each student must include four statements of no more than 500 words each addressing the following:

1. Describe your academic and personal experiences that you consider relevant to UCEA GSF fellowship
2. Describe your short-range and long-range career goals
3. Detail your research experience
4. How does a summer fellowship at a UCEA program center align with your pursuit of the professoriate?

Send your application to:

Julian Vasquez Heilig, Ph.D.

Associate Director of Program Centers, University Council for Educational Administration

Associate Professor of Educational Policy and Planning

Department of Education Administration

The University of Texas at Austin

jvh@austin.utexas.edu

Note:  Applications must arrive by February 20, 2012. The Program Centers Advisory Board (PCAB) will review the applications and students will be notified in early April 2012.