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Accreditation
Quality Assurance Review Report
Executive Summary
Overview
The AdvancED School Accreditation Process provides schools with a comprehensive framework for continually improving student learning and school effectiveness. To earn and maintain accreditation, schools:
- Meet the AdvancED standards and policies. The AdvancED Accreditation Standards for Quality Schools are derived from education research and best practice. They require that schools have a clear vision and purpose; have a rigorous curriculum taught through sound, research based methods, collect, report, and use performance results; provide adequate resources and support for its educational programs; value and communicate with stakeholders; and have a commitment to continuously improve.
- Engage in a continuous process of improvement. Schools implement an improvement process; whereby, they identify a shared vision, maintain a school-wide profile of the current reality, establish plans and assess the implementation of interventions, and document the results of their efforts to improve student learning and school effectiveness.
- Demonstrate quality assurance through internal and external review. The school has in place quality assurance systems and processes to maximize effectiveness across the school to improve student performance. The school engages in regular internal self-review and hosts an external review once every five years.
Assessments of AdvancED Standards
- Highly Functional means the school is exceptional in its demonstration of the standard and exhibits practices not commonly found in other schools. Only a small percentage of schools will rate in this area.
- Operational means the school is demonstrating the standard and using practices you would find in other good schools. The majority of schools will rate in this area.
- Emerging means the school is beginning to put in place the practices necessary to meet the standard but is not meeting it. Some schools may fall into this area.
- Not Evident means that the school has no practices in place or beginning efforts to meet the standard. Only a small number of schools will fall in this area, as the Readiness Visit is conducted before entry in the process should ensure that schools are beginning to or have practices in place to meet the standard.
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