EU-CIL: Center for Instructional Leadership (CIL)
DSN Phone: 314-545-1544
The DoDEA Center for Instructional Leadership (CIL) works side-by-side with school leadership, Instructional System Specialists and teachers to create great student experiences to ensure high academic achievement for all DoDEA students.
Each Region Center for Instructional Leadership (CIL) is a critical component of leadership development for DoDEA. The role of the CIL is to ensure high academic achievement for all DoDEA students, ensuring that every educational leader receives the support they need to help students succeed. The CIL systemically develops high-impact educational leaders in their pursuit of excellence and equity. Success is measured when all DoDEA schools ensure that every student is adequately prepared for success in college, careers and citizenship.
The CIL has four functions:
More specifically, the Region CIL works in partnership with District Superintendents and Community Superintendents, ISS’s, principals, and teacher leaders to ensure that these individuals are well equipped to lead and support their respective schools. The CIL achieves this by identifying gaps and needs and use school-level data and research to inform training and content development. The support system creates sustained leadership development by providing:
We serve all education leadership levels across our regional footprint and provide professional development opportunities for all educators.
We work directly with Superintendents, Community Superintendents, ISSs, and Building Leaders providing systemic leadership development and support, professional development for systemic priorities of the agency, and learning networks to share innovative best practices.
DoDEA’s Blueprint for Continuous Improvement and Europe’s Big 4 provide for a coherence of effort across all levels in our region as we pursue our region’s goal of Access and Equity in Excellent Instructional for ALL Students! As such, they are a significant source of inspiration and provide focus for our school action plan for continuous improvement.