Thursday, April 23, 2015

ADVANCED EXTERNAL REVIEW TEAM says Taylor schools will earn accreditation across the board for the first time in the history of the district


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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