Jonathan A. Supovitz, professor in the Graduate School of Education and director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), has received an award of $450,000 from Nellie Mae Education Foundation for the project, The Study of Teacher Leadership in the United States. The project first scans the teacher leadership program environment in the U.S. and then identifies two promising programs for an in-depth, mixed-method investigation of their implementation and impacts on teacher leaders, teachers and students.