Cleveland State University
Greater Cleveland Educational Development Center
2121 Euclid Ave CE 300
Cleveland, OH 44115
Campus Location
Joseph E. Cole Center
3100 Chester Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44115
Phone: 216-523-7107
Fax: 216-687-5422
gcedc@csuohio.edu
Web Contact
Sarah R. Reynolds
s.r.reynolds09@csuohio.edu
(216) 523-7112
Mission and Goals
The Greater Cleveland Educational Development Center’s mission is to
develop highly qualified teachers and administrators
The Greater Cleveland Educational Development Center –
partnership of Northeast Ohio school districts, the Ohio
Department of Education, and the College of Education
and Human Services at Cleveland State University –
provides professional learning opportunities, leadership,
resources, information, networking, and collaborative
opportunities that strengthen each member’s learning
community. The Center is driven to produce timely and
relevant professional learning development programs and
service. As an organization we value responsiveness,
customer service, and relationships.
The goals of the GCEDC focus on meeting the needs of our
member districts. We strive to:
Identify professional development needs and implement
high quality professional learning programs,
Provide personalized service to individual buildings and
schools districts,
Facilitate networks as a response to the changing demands
of our work in teaching, learning, and leading, and
Provide leadership and seek resolution to educational
issues in response to state and federal mandates.
The GCEDC offers a variety of services to our member districts, including:
• District/Building representation at monthly Liaison Board meetings
• Professional development programs at a member rate
• Video and print resources and materials to assist districts with professional learning activities
• Consultation in planning district in-service professional
development activities
• CSU graduate credit for workshops and district
in-service programs at tuition reduction
• External evaluation and needs assessment services
• Access to Cleveland State University support for
data analysis
• Timely information on professional development areas
• Quarterly newsletter
• Calendar of upcoming professional development
events
• Customized professional development, including
transition planning for the Small Schools Initiative,
Standards-Based Education, Curriculum Mapping,
Principle-Centered Leadership, Transformational
Leadership, Consensus Building, Change Process
simulations, Classroom Management, Aggression
Management, and meeting facilitation.
• Networks: Support Team for Testing, Assessment and
Statistics (STATS); Local Professional Development
Committee (LPDC); Literacy, Small Schools, and
Lead Mentor Network (new for ’04/’05)
The GCEDC serves as an important link between the College
of Education and Human Services and the K-12 community
The Greater Cleveland Educational Development Center began in 1983 in response to a need to bring the resources of area school districts and the Cleveland State University College of Education together to deal with mutually beneficial professional development programs. In 1992, the GCEDC was awarded a grant from the Ohio Department of Education to coordinate the Northeast Regional Professional Development Center. The NRPDC was one of 12 Regional Professional Development Centers that implemented Ohio Department of Education professional development initiatives. As the ODE makes its transition to the Ohio Regional Delivery System, the GCEDC will continue to network with the ODE and the Regional Service Centers to plan and implement meaningful services and activities. The GCEDC routinely works with and coordinates professional development activities with the Greater Cleveland School Superintendents’ Association, area county Educational Service Centers, Special Education Regional Resource Centers, WVIZ Ideastream, Cleveland HealthSpace, and the College of Education and Human Services Departments, including the First Ring Leadership Academy, The Reading First Ohio Center, the Master of Urban Secondary Teaching Fellows, and the Center for Urban School Collaboration. The GCEDC offers school districts affordable membership