Multi Disciplinary Resource

Institute for Educational Inquiry

124 E. Edgar St.
Seattle, WA  98102
Phone: (206) 325-3010
Website: http://depts.washington.edu/cedren/IEI.htm
Email: elenwp@u.washington.edu

Primary Function of Organization:
Advocacy, Arts Education, Education, Funding, Professional Development

Likely groups interested in this resource:
Arts Educators, Educators

The Institute for Educational Inquiry (IEI) was founded by John I. Goodlad in 1992. The IEI is an independent, nonprofit corporation with conceptual and administrative links to the Center for Educational Renewal (CER) at the College of Education, University of Washington (Tel: (206) 543-6230, pheckman@u.washington.edu). IEI is funded completely by philanthropic foundations dedicated to supporting education. The Institute works together with the CER to advance the Agenda for Education in a Democracy. Much of the work of the Institute involves conducting extensive professional development programs on a wide range of educational issues that bring together P-12, college of education, and arts and sciences faculty from the settings of the National Network for Educational Renewal (Richard W. Clark, Executive Director, 209 140th Ave. NE, Bellevue, WA 98005, Tel: (425) 747-3280, Fax: (425) 644-7514, clarkd@msn.com). The professional development programs of the IEI are diverse, including: long-term programs to expand diversity in teaching and teacher education programs; to integrate the arts into the preparation of all elementary classroom teachers; to develop leadership skills of faculty within schools, colleges of education, and the arts and sciences; and to establish greater understanding between journalists and educators, among others. One of IEI's initiatives is the three-year program just ending called Arts in Teaching and Teacher Education (ATTE), which works with eight school-university settings in examining issues surrounding integrating the arts into the preparation of all elementary school teachers, and includes some institutes and training opportunities. Contact: Mary Ellen Finch, executive director of the Metropolitan St. Louis Consortium for Educational Renewal (finch@maryville.edu).