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The UW's master in instructional leadership program and certificate programs designed to help teachers grow in their leadership roles, including research projects relevant to their own schools, are noted.

Doctoral student in multicultural education Robert Keener discusses how project-based learning is a powerful tool teachers can use to help students engage with difficult topics.

The education overhaul that Ohio Gov. John Kasich unveils this week is likely to bear the marks of several of America's best-known — if not universally popular — school reformers. Marguerite Roza is mentioned. 

Tom Halverson, senior lecturer and director of the UW program, comments on local and national efforts to raise teacher pay and compensation.

Many middle-school students fear science and math as much as cooties and wedgies. Neither subject is ranked on their cool-things-at-school list. And later, in high school, those preconceived notions improperly guide their course selections and career choices. However, those stereotypes are fading, thanks in part to Washington STEM, a nonprofit that is celebrating its first anniversary this week. Andrew Shouse is quoted. 

Anneke Markholt and Joanna Michelson of the ���ߺ��� Center for Educational Leadership are interviewed about their new book "Leading for Professional Learning: What Successful Principals Do To Support Teaching Practice."

In published in the November issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, nearly 40 percent of young adults who said they had tried suicide said that they made their first attempt before entering high school.

“Young adults who end up having chronic mental health problems show their struggles early,” said , lead author and professor of educational psychology at the ���ߺ��� ���ߺ���. “This study suggests that implementation of mental health programs may need to start in elementary and middle schools, and that youth in these grades are fairly good reporters of their own mental health.”

Ken Zeichner, Boeing Professor of Teacher Education Emeritus, discusses where teacher preparation programs miss the mark on social justice and more in this podcast.

Seattle has a year to figure out who should be its next superintendent of schools, someone different from the last one. No one has a good word to say about the recently departed Maria Goodloe-Johnson, but wasn't she our savior just a little while ago? In this op-ed, Seattle Times columnist, Jerry Large, praises Meredith Honig's collaborations with districts to help them redefine their core mission as education and learning.

The UW ���ߺ��� is one of 15 of the nation’s leading teacher and principal preparation programs to be founding partners in the Educator Preparation Laboratory (EdPrepLab).