Education Systems Center (EdSystems) is a mission-driven policy development and program implementation center within Northern Illinois University, focused on creating clear, unambiguous paths to college and career opportunities. Learn more…
Our primary focus is Illinois, while also working with national and international partners. Through our Northern Illinois University home, we forge longstanding leadership roles with state agencies and interagency boards and commissions. We work at the state level to create ecosystem and policy change while simultaneously working at the local level to create organizational change. This bi-directional approach allows us to align local efforts to state policy while elevating local experiences and learnings to state tables.
We form and lead key interagency and public-private collaborations that drive policy priorities, deepen public system alignment and integration, grow public and private financial support, and enable integrated data to inform continuous improvement.
We build networks that align across secondary, postsecondary, and workforce and connect communities to policy frameworks by providing in-depth technical assistance, facilitation, and policy implementation support. These communities serve as exemplars to inform our state policy efforts.
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