Teacher Preparation
Advanced Programs
Educational Leadership
The Department of Educational Leadership seeks to prepare highly competent principals, superintendents, directors, and other formal and informal educational leaders for both public, private, charter, and alternative schools, as well as districts, charter networks, and state or county systems. We believe that educational leadership is an occupation worthy of intensive skill and dispositional development; we believe it is based on both tacit and codified knowledge grounded in data analysis, instructional leadership, organizational interpretation, interpersonal skill, ethics, professional judgment, and social justice.
The Department of Educational Leadership is a multi-faceted department that operates in multiple states, offers a variety of graduate degree programs and professional development opportunities, and provides consultation and evaluation in various forms.
National-Louis University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and is a participant in the HLC's Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP). National College of Education meets all twenty standards and is accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). As a Specialized Professional Association of NCATE, the Educational Leadership Constituent Consortium (ELCC) extended the status of "national recognition" to NLU Educational Leadership programs after reviewing NLU's programs in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Florida. The program is a William Cecil Golden provider for the state of Florida. All of the department's programs fully prepare candidates with the 2008 ISLLC Standards, the Florida Principal Leadership Standards, the Florida Principal Competencies, the Wisconsin Principal Standards, the revised Illinois principal certificate standards, and the National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators in mind.