On
October 1st,
I submitted our two-year progress report to NEASC. All schools are
required to submit a two- and five-year progress report as part of
NEASC's on-going accreditation progress. Our five-year progress
report will be due in March, 2014, at which point almost all of the
recommendations of the visiting team are to have been implemented.
After that, we get about 2 ½ years of breathing room, then the
entire cycle starts again sometime in 2016 with the self-study. As you can see from page 21 of the
progress report, 27% of the recommendations from the visiting team
have been implemented and determined to be “completed” and 43%
are classified as “in progress.” Many of the recommendations
that are “in-progress” are related to curriculum development.
Ironically, if we were evaluated this school year by the visiting
team, I think we would have as many or even more commendations for
curriculum than recommendations as we have implemented a curriculum
development process that is much more closely aligned with best
practice than that used in most schools and we have made much more
progress aligning curriculum to the Common Core State Standards than
most schools (which isn't much, but many schools are taking a head in
the sand approach to the CCSS). 9% of the recommendations are
identified as “Planned for the Future”, 2% as “Rejected”, and
20% as “No Action Taken.” The two recommendations which were
rejected had to do with Guidance and Special Education services. The
decision to reject the recommendations was based on the specific
language of the recommendations but the school is still taking action
to implement the intent of the recommendation and ensure that both
Guidance and Special Education services are meeting student needs. I expect to receive a written
response to our two-year progress report within the next month.
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