UCEA Center for the Study of School Site Leadership

The UCEA Center for the Study of School Site Leadership was established in 1999 with the following set of objectives: to foster collaborative forms of research about school leadership; to provide regular syntheses about the state of the art of leadership preparation and practice, and disseminate this information to both the research and practitioner communities; to foster collaborative partnerships between the Center and the field in order to develop and implement educational opportunities for school leaders to become more familiar with the practical implications of the research for their own practice;  to provide advice for policy makers embarking on initiatives with implications for school leaders. This binational Center, hosted by the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, straddles the U.S.- Canadian border at the Niagara Frontier.   This geographic area is characterized by significant economic, racial, ethnic and cultural diversity in its school systems, including Toronto, which the U.N. has designated the world's most ethnically diverse city, and Buffalo, New York State's second largest school district. It is the goal of the Center to become an important locus for the dissemination of research about key aspects of school site leadership. While not an exclusive focus, a major priority for the Center will be to better understand the implications for school site leadership on contexts characterized by economic, racial, ethnic and cultural diversity.