AdvancED Exit Report for SCSD 1

Editor's Notes

• #3: Notes Combining the knowledge and expertise of a research institute, the skills of a management consulting firm and the passion of a grassroots movement for educational change, we serve as a trusted partner to 32,000 schools and school systems—employing more than four million educators and enrolling more than 20 million students—across the United States and 70 other nations. AdvancED was created through a 2006 merger of the PreK-12 divisions of the North Central Association (NCA) and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)—and expanded through the 2011 acquisition of the Northwest Accreditation Commission (NWAC).  
• #4: Notes AdvancED is the largest community of education professionals in the world. We are a non-profit, non-partisan organization that conducts rigorous, on-site external reviews of PreK-12 schools and school systems to ensure that all learners realize their full potential. While our expertise is grounded in more than a hundred years of work in school accreditation, AdvancED is far from a typical accrediting agency. Our goal isn’t to certify that schools are good enough. Rather, our commitment is to help schools improve.
• #5: Notes The External Review process stimulates and guides continuous improvement through the focus on: Teaching and Learning Impact Leadership Capacity Resource Utilization
• #7: Notes Insert the categories and numbers of stakeholder groups interviewed.
• #8: Notes The Teaching and Learning Domain is comprised of all of the Indicators for Standard 3 – Teaching and Assessing for Learning, Standard 5 – Continuous Improvement, and four Evaluative Criteria for the Student Performance Diagnostic.
• #9: Notes List bullet points for Powerful Practices, Opportunities for Improvement, and Improvement Priorities on the chart. Remember that these are only the actions that fall under the Teaching and Assessing for Learning Domain. Stress that these actions will be further detailed in the written report that the institution will receive.
• #10: Notes List bullet points for Powerful Practices, Opportunities for Improvement, and Improvement Priorities on the chart. Remember that these are only the actions that fall under the Teaching and Assessing for Learning Domain. Stress that these actions will be further detailed in the written report that the institution will receive.
• #11: Notes List bullet points for Powerful Practices, Opportunities for Improvement, and Improvement Priorities on the chart. Remember that these are only the actions that fall under the Teaching and Assessing for Learning Domain. Stress that these actions will be further detailed in the written report that the institution will receive.
• #12: Notes List bullet points for Powerful Practices, Opportunities for Improvement, and Improvement Priorities on the chart. Remember that these are only the actions that fall under the Teaching and Assessing for Learning Domain. Stress that these actions will be further detailed in the written report that the institution will receive.
• #13: Notes: Effective Learning Environments Observation Tool ™ (eleot™) The purpose of eleot is to identify observable evidence of classroom environments that are conducive to learning. The focus of the tool is to ensure that learners are engaging, acting, reacting and benefiting from various contexts or environments that should be evident in all effective learning settings. eleot™ focuses on student engagement not on what the teacher is doing. Focuses on observed student engagement in their learning environment Looks at patterns and trends, not individual classrooms Used as one piece of evidence (to corroborate other evidence regarding learning) Summary results are reported in Exit Report and External Review Report The eleot averages by the External Review Team are listed next to the AdvancED Network (AEN) score. The AEN score is the averages of eleot scores (classroom observations) from all of the schools across the AdvancED network across the country.
• #14: Notes This domain includes all of the Indicators from Standard 2 – Governance and Leadership, Standard 1 – Purpose and Direction and the Evaluative Criteria from Stakeholder Feedback Diagnostic. .
• #15: Notes List bullet points for Powerful Practices, Opportunities for Improvement, and Improvement Priorities on the chart. Remember that these are only the actions that fall under the Teaching and Assessing for Learning Domain. Stress that these actions will be further detailed in the written report that the institution will receive.
• #16: Notes List bullet points for Powerful Practices, Opportunities for Improvement, and Improvement Priorities on the chart. Remember that these are only the actions that fall under the Teaching and Assessing for Learning Domain. Stress that these actions will be further detailed in the written report that the institution will receive.
• #17: Notes List bullet points for Powerful Practices, Opportunities for Improvement, and Improvement Priorities on the chart. Remember that these are only the actions that fall under the Teaching and Assessing for Learning Domain. Stress that these actions will be further detailed in the written report that the institution will receive.
• #18: Notes This domain contains all of the Indicators for Standard 4 – Resources and Support Systems.
• #19: Notes List bullet points for Powerful Practices, Opportunities for Improvement, and Improvement Priorities on the chart. Remember that these are only the actions that fall under the Teaching and Assessing for Learning Domain. Stress that these actions will be further detailed in the written report that the institution will receive.
• #20: Notes List bullet points for Powerful Practices, Opportunities for Improvement, and Improvement Priorities on the chart. Remember that these are only the actions that fall under the Teaching and Assessing for Learning Domain. Stress that these actions will be further detailed in the written report that the institution will receive.
• #21: Notes The Balanced Accreditation process is reported as an Index of Education Quality. This slide illustrates the institution’s progress in each of the three categories and as an overall Index of Education Quality. The Evaluative Criteria are divided into three categories, Teaching and Learning Impact, Leadership Capacity, and Resource Utilization. The Index of Education Quality and it’s three categories provide the institution with a clear picture of their current reality and a roadmap toward excellence. There are 39 total criteria included in the IEQ, 21 of which are related to Teaching and Learning Impact, 11 related to Leadership Capacity, and 7 related to Resource Utilization. Our hope is that you will “drill down” into the individual indicators behind each of these scores to help you identify strengths you want to maintain, and to help you identify areas of improvement.
• #22: Notes Enter the IEQ scores for the institution generated by the Master Spreadsheet. Where do you compare? Using your IEQ score, we can calculate where you institution falls on the curve as compared to all systems in the AdvancED network. You need to understand the purpose is NOT to rank your institution, but rather to show where you are when we consider over 32,000 institutions in the AdvancED network.
• #23: Notes For too many years, institutions have been judged based upon disparate and unrelated summative data points that fail to paint an accurate, holistic review of the quality of an institution. The scores have been used to target schools for punitive interventions as opposed to providing a formative assessment that guides sustainable progress and improvement. In 2013, AdvancED introduced an innovative and state-of-the-art framework to measure institutional performance that offers a deeper understanding of organizational effectiveness. The Index of Education Quality™ (IEQ™) provides a holistic measure of an institution’s overall performance based on a comprehensive set of indicators and evaluative criteria. As a formative tool for improvement, it pinpoints areas of strength as well as those in need of support or focus.
• #24: Notes Reminder: All institutions that fall under the category of “continuing” accreditation will receive this recommendation. Only institutions new to AdvancED, and undergoing their initial External Review could receive a statement not recommending accreditation. The External Review Team can only report their findings and forward the recommendation to the Managing Office. The AdvancED Commission grants the actual accreditation.
• #25: Notes This slide details what the next steps for the institution will be. You might want to remind them that the steps the institution will take during the next two years will be detailed through a written plan developed in the ASSIST Goal Builder for their APR (Accreditation Progress Report).
• #26: Notes Express your thanks and appreciation to the institution for their hospitality and their efforts toward continuous improvement.