Minnesota Principals Academy: 2-Year Follow-up Survey of 2015–17 Cohorts

The Minnesota Principals Academy (MPA) is an executive development program designed to enhance the performance of school leaders in order to improve educational outcomes for students. The program is housed in the University of Minnesota’s Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development in the College of Education and Human Development, with financial support provided by the Minnesota Legislature and participants’ school districts. In this report, we describe the results of a survey designed to better understand how participation in the MPA is impacting alumni participants’ practices in their schools and districts two years after their participation in the program. The survey was administered in Spring 2019 to participants who began the program in 2015 and completed the program in June 2017.