2025-2026 Leadership Academy Registration

2025-2026 Leadership Academy-for aspiring administrators

The Office for Catholic Schools offers a Leadership Academy, a yearlong leadership development program for aspiring administrators and new principals. Sessions offered on managerial, academic, spiritual, and strategic leadership (framed in the National Standards and Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools). Working in solidarity to ensure a system of excellent Catholic schools, the Leadership Academy will provide the knowledge, skills, strategies and best practices for current and future school leaders in the Archdiocese of Seattle.

  • Clock hours offered.

Registration for Leadership Academy is open!

2025-26 Dates:

  • October 9th-in-person 10:00 am-2:00 pm
  • November 21st- in-person 10:00 am-2:00 pm
  • February 6th (OCS PD & Curriculum Day 2026) online 12:00-1:30pm
  • March 27th- in person BLC Retreat 9:00 am-3:00 pm 
  • April 24th- online 12:00 pm-1:30pm

Additional optional leadership development are offered outside of these core meetings. Contact Kelly Surapaneni, kelly.surapaneni@seattlearch.org with questions.