IEL provides services in the following three program areas - you can link to a list of the current services and projects in each specific program of work:

Developing and Supporting Leaders
To promote the ongoing development of leaders for education and to maintain a scaffold of support services. Such leaders are diverse individuals, inside education and out, who develop or refine their capacity to work together across boundaries. IEL operates a leadership development/policy program, creates learning communities, and mentors and nurtures the continued development of participants. We assist other organizations across the country striving to "grow their own" leaders. Our work also helps leaders increase their education knowledge base, expand their networks of professional support, and figure out how to put good ideas to work, collectively. IEL strives to be the top resource-in the virtual and real worlds-for "what-works" information and tools for leadership.

Strengthening School-Family-Community Connections
To encourage and assist parents, neighbors, local government, youth and human services organizations, businesses, and other organizations to build deep, intentional partnerships with schools. IEL's vision of the community school as a center of community and learning for students and adults drives this work. We help communities build the local alliances that sustain relationships among schools, families, and communities, and the national and state networks essential to developing policies, capacity-building strategies, and programs to realize this vision.

Connecting and Improving Policies and Systems that Serve Children and Youth
To increase the capacity of our public systems, partnering with others-public, non-profit, private-to achieve positive results for our most vulnerable children. IEL helps schools plan and implement comprehensive reform with a special emphasis on the high school, and assists communities to build stronger systems of care to prevent juvenile delinquency. We engage employers in career preparation of entry workers; help businesses improve the labor force participation rate of youth with disabilities; and aid states in connecting K-12 to higher education.

We invite you to join us in our work.

Developing and Supporting Leaders:

• Commission on the Whole Child
• Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP)
• Superintendents and School Boards Training
• E-Lead
• School Leadership for the 21st Century Initiative
• School Leadership Learning Network

• Coalition for Community Schools

• Education Policy Forum Discussions
• IEL/LSS Policy Project
• National Consortium on Leadership and Disability for Youth
• National High School Alliance
• National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability/For Youth

• Kellogg Leadership for Community Change Initiative