One Educational Leadership preparation program in a rather unexpected location, the Mississippi Delta region, has received national recognition from the Educational Leadership Constituent Council, been asked to use its program report on the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) website as a national example of excellence, received the state award for Best Practices, and been recognized as one of the top eight programs in the country by an exhaustive national research study conducted by Stanford University. The key components of this program are presented in this paper. (Contains 2 tables and 3 figures.)