Center for Educational Leadership

Creating Powerful, Effective, Career Enhancing Leadership Development Programs

The Graduate School of Education and Counseling is launching the Center for Educational Leadership to create powerful, effective, career enhancing leadership development programs. Aimed at career administrators in education, the Center will focus on facilitating skill development in individual leadership decision-making. Local leaders will have the opportunity to work with national and international experts, access a network of outstanding consultants, and learn from Lewis & Clark faculty and students. The Center for Educational Leadership builds on the long tradition of excellence in administrator preparation for which Lewis & Clark is known. Activities will be focused in three main areas:

Executive Leadership Training

The Executive Leadership Training is designed to develop an authentic peer-learning network for practicing executive leaders within schools and communities. Programs will focus on facilitating skill development in organizational dynamics of leadership and personal awareness. The themes presented will touch on the very core of the leaders' experience and the skills needed to partner effectively with the communities they serve and the various groups that represent those communities.

The Oregon Principals' Center

The Oregon Principals' Center's mission is to support the personal and professional development of school leaders by providing a context in which the professionals can offer support and practitioner knowledge. The Principals; Center also sponsors the Summer Leadership Institute each year on the Lewis & Clark campus, and it provides regional support to school leaders in 12 areas in Oregon and Southwest Washington led by Regional Coordinators in each of the followings areas:

Union-Baker Counties	Clatsop County
Douglas County	Mid-Columbia River
Yamhill County	Wy-East
Deschutes County	Pendleton
Western Washington County	Lincoln County
Coos/Curry County	Portland Metro Area

For further information, contact Carol Smith, Director of the Oregon Principals' Center at csmith@lclark.edu.

Resource Services

The Center for Educational Leadership serves as a resources center for school leaders. The Center helps facilitate networking with consultants, faculty, and other resources which might offer assistance to school leaders in making decisions about issues impacting their school. School leaders are invited to contact The Center fro Educational Leadership to brainstorm possible solutions and resources that are needed to address those issues.

Tom Ruhl, Co-Director ruhl@lclark.edu

Carol R. Smith, Co-Director csmith@lclark.edu

Center for Educational Leadership
0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd
Portland, OR 97219

Upcoming Events

Thomas Lickona & Matthew Davidson

Tuesday, April 18th

Learn how developing a culture of strong character in young people also fosters increased academic performance. Lickona and Davidson have written extensively on the value of teaching respect and responsibility and the importance of schools to partner with the community and home to accomplish this goal. More...

Summer Leadership Institute

Monday & Tuesday, July 24th & 25th

Participants attending the Summer Leadership Institute will develop a deeper content knowledge of the issues many of their students face (i.e., poverty, diversity, cultural competency, etc.). They will explore the value of collaborative planning and leadership to develop programs and an environment of supportive learning. In addition, participants will explore the personal dimension of leadership and how it impacts them in emotion, psychological, and physical sense. More...

2 Day Summer Leadership Agenda (pdf)