Ignatian Center for Educational Leadership (ICEL)

Ignatian Center for Educational Leadership (ICEL) is a centre for educational consultancy, training and research that primarily provides training and capacity building for teachers and other educational stakeholders influenced by the Ignatian educational worldview’s quest for excellence, faith, social justice, and the formation of people of competence, commitment, compassion, and conscience. ICEL runs workshops on educational leadership and capacity building for staff, leadership teams, Grades 1- 12 school boards, pastoral agents and educational stakeholders. Over time, ICEL will develop short certificate and degree programs in collaboration with tertiary institutions globally.  The center also offers research services, especially on private and public basic and secondary educational practices and school leadership in Nigeria and Africa. Over time, this center will develop into an educational faculty of a university.

We form humane persons, who creatively work for the common good through training educational stakeholders for excellence

We do these through formation in education and leadership, consultancy, and research

Education and Leadership

Consultancy

Research

Why ICEL

The institute is guided by its vision of forming men and women, who creatively work for the good of their communities, nation and world. It has, thus, begun to make impactful contributions to communities within and outside of its locality through consultancy services in school improvement, and building capacities of teachers, educational stakeholders, pastoral agents,

Our goals include

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Providing consultancy

If you are concerned about staff morale, vision/mission/identity, student academic morale and improvement, group decision making of your board and/or school community, student-centered pedagogy that is contextually relevant, and formation of your chaplaincy team, you may speak to us.

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School leadership formation and

Training for teachers

If you are concerned about improving on the leadership styles/inclinations of your staff, staff morale, vision/mission/identity, student academic morale and improvement, group decision making of your board and/or school community, and student-centered pedagogy that is contextually relevant, you may speak to us. Also, Speak to Us if you are a faith-based school leadership interested in improving on your mission.

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Training educational stakeholders, and research services for educational institutions

If you need research on pedagogical practices of staff, leadership styles/inclinations of staff and school leadership team, staff and student academic motivation, identity and mission of the school, and Catholic identity of your school, you may speak to us.

Testimonials

"I love the program and would recommend it for others”.

— Staff, Jesuit Memorial College,
Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria (2022).

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

— – John Quincy Adams

We strive to form humane persons, who creatively work for the common good through training educational stakeholders for excellence, and being a model agroecological farm in the West African sub-region.

We are a non-profit educational and agroecological Catholic institute. We aim to provide training and capacity building to teachers and other educational stakeholders as well as engaging in agricultural research, and offering hands-on learning experiences and skills to students and rural farmers.

We do these through formation in education and leadership, consultancy, research and training in integral agriculture, agroecology and e-commerce.

Have you considered learning with us?

Xavier Jesuit Institute hopes to position itself toward providing a thorough formation for persons, who would be imbued with proficiency and the requisite qualifications to creatively respond to the pressing challenges of our time and to deliver excellent solutions in the educational and agricultural sectors in Nigeria and beyond.