1. Provide internship opportunities for UW-System students to teach in urban school settings to fulfill their student teaching requirements.
2. Facilitate community connections between teaching candidates, community members around and within the school districts, and UW-System stakeholders.
3. Increase and support effective professional development opportunities for Wisconsin teachers who are working in urban settings or want to work in urban settings.
4. Increase and improve the collaborative teaching and research efforts of UW System Schools and Programs of Education.

The IUE’s charge is to advance the field of urban education and to recruit, promote and retain high quality educators for urban districts. To achieve this goal, the IUE will:

• Establish and maintain productive relationships with appropriate public and private organizations at the local, regional, state, national, and international levels;
• Promote public service and research efforts directed toward meeting the social, economic and cultural needs of the state of Wisconsin and its metropolitan areas;
• Encourage others from institutions in the University of Wisconsin System and from other educational institutions and agencies to seek benefit from the University’s research and educational resources such as libraries, special collections, archives, museums, research facilities, and academic programs; and
• Provide educational leadership in meeting future social, cultural, and technological challenges.

1. Clinical Experience
   The IUE’s clinical experience is a voluntary residential internship preparation program for teacher candidates across UW System institutions who desire to student teach in an urban setting. IUE will partner with 2 urban school districts in SE Wisconsin for 2020-2021.
2. Professional Development
   The IUE provides ongoing professional development opportunities for practicing teachers and cooperating teachers in urban classroom to implement research based culturally relevant pedagogy.
3. Scholarly Research
   The IUE collaborates with scholars from UW System institutions to support research in urban education. IUE will focus their research on culturally relevant pedagogy and the impact on educator effectiveness, retention, and student outcomes.