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The year-long NELA School Leadership Internship will prepare Fellows to develop strong interpersonal relationships, diagnose student learning and effective teaching, model reflective practice, and master leadership skills and dispositions that support school improvement efforts. The internship is purposefully designed to immerse Fellows in learning opportunities and activities to help them gain proficiency in the North Carolina Standards for School Executives.

An integral part of the internship experience is the Internship Project. During the fall of 2013, each Fellow will conduct an asset/needs assessment of their placement school and identify a "problem of practice." Fellows will then develop a strategy designed to address that particular problem, as well as an evaluation plan to assess the strategy's effectiveness. Fellows will present an overview of their Internship Project in the spring of 2014.

Throughout their internship experiences, Fellows will receive "wrap-around" support from an executive coach, mentor principal at their school site, and the NELA project team, which includes many NCSU faculty members.