According
to an announcement by AdvancED External Review Team yesterday, all schools in
the Taylor School District will be nominated for national accreditation.
According to Supt. Diane Allen, it marks for the first in the district’s
history that all schools will be accredited.
“This
is a proud moment in my career,” she said yesterday.
The
district welcomed six members of the AdvancEd External Review Team to the
district April 19-22. The six members were comprised of educators from
Michigan, Florida, and Missouri. The Taylor School District has spent the
past two years preparing for AdvancED District Accreditation and their visit
was the last step before earning accreditation.
The
panel spent endless hours interviewing students, teachers, administrators and
others. The schools were numerically ranked in several key categories, and thus
rankings compared favorably to the average rankings of schools across the
nation previous accredited by the reviewers.
Accreditation
allows all schools to have a common language of school improvement and supports
a common accountability of requirements.
The
external review process ended Wednesday with a report to staffers, the Board of
Education and others, and gave the district recognition of Powerful Practices,
Opportunities for Improvement and Improvement Priorities.
Talking Taylor Schools will post
more, including photos of the presentation and The News-Herald Newspapers’
coverage of the event, in the very near future.
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