Minnesota Principals Academy: End-of-Program Report for the 2017–19 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 Center for Applied Research and Education Improvement (CAREI) serves as the program evaluator with the intention of providing information on the extent to which participants, upon completion of the program, changed their behaviors or gained knowledge and skills in the areas covered by the MPA. This report summarizes the results from surveys administered across three 2017–19 MPA cohorts. MPA participants from the three 2017–19 cohorts completed a retrospective pre/post-survey in spring 2019 about their leadership practices, skills, and behaviors both before and after participating in the program. Supervisors of MPA participants also completed a survey in spring 2019 to provide information on changes in participants in the areas covered by the MPA curriculum. The survey results were overwhelmingly positive and described a pattern of change for the participants in the key areas identified by the MPA curriculum.