NC State University’s Educational Leadership Academies seeks to increase student achievement by preparing and retaining principals in high-poverty, hard-to-staff, and historically low-performing schools. The Leadership Academies create a comprehensive leadership development and succession plan for NC high-need school districts. Each component is anchored in research-based best practices in leadership preparation and is designed to meet the specific contextualized needs of schools in North Carolina.

Our educational leadership programs include:

• The Northeast Leadership Academy: NELA Cohorts I – III
• The Northeast Leadership Academy 2.0: NELA 2.0 Cohorts IV and VI & Principal Academy
• The Northeast Leadership Academy – District and School Transformation: NELA-DST Cohort V and Turnaround Principal Academy
• The Durham Principal Leadership Academy – DPLA
• The North Carolina Leadership Academy – NCLA
• Wallace Principal Preparation Redesign