Leadership Academy

AACTE’s Leadership Academy is a unique opportunity for deans, department chairs, and other administrators and faculty to enhance their leadership skills, address current issues, and build a professional peer network. At this year’s Leadership Academy, attendees will participate in strategic conversation that will empower you to return to your campus with elevated narratives, best practices, and tactics to deliver across your institution and continue critical discussion with refreshed and innovative perspectives, approaches, and results. Register today and reserve your spot. Book your hotel at the group rate.

Achieve Your Goals
Attendees will engage with higher education thought leaders, expand their network of supportive colleagues and peers, and develop strategies together. This academy will ensure that AACTE deans, department and program chairs, and other academic leaders are prepared to successfully navigate their roles and responsibilities on campus and achieve their goals and vision for the future of educator preparation. 

New Deans Academy
Designed for new deans and department chairs/heads who began service in the past three years (since 2021), this event will provide an important boost to those in the early stages of their new role and provide time to step away from their offices to focus on learning, networking, and strategic directions. This new program will be an opportunity for participants to concentrate on the unique challenges they face, identify potential solutions for issues that our top of mind, and facilitate connections among others serving in similar roles.

All cancellation and refund requests must be submitted in writing no later than the final registration deadline of the event in questions to receive a refund. Cancellation requests received after the registration deadline will not be eligible for a refund, unless documentation is presented to prove the individual registrant was unable to travel. A $150 administrative fee will be deducted for each cancellation request for full price events and deducted from the refund. A $50 administrative fee will be deducted for each cancellation request for student price events and deducted from the refund. All refunds are processed after the event date. Cancellation and refund requests should be submitted to the AACTE Membership Department at membership@aacte.org or 1602 L Street NW Suite 601, Washington DC 20036. 

Preliminary Leadership Academy Schedule

AACTE (American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education) Core Values:

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion   ||   Quality and Impact    ||   Inquiry and Innovation

The AACTE Leadership Academy is a collection of keynotes, conversations, and panels that focus on leadership competencies that are critical for success. In addition, this interactive curriculum will present a number of opportunities to prepare leaders for a variety of issues and situations they are facing within the higher education environment. Throughout this week-long experience, attendees will repeatedly tap into their shared strength of purpose–reflecting on why they are doing this work and drawing energy and wisdom from each other.

Academy faculty and speakers