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School Improvement/Accreditation

Teachers working on SIPSchool Improvement and Accreditation are two of the primary vehicles by which Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) Pacific work to meet the goals of the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Community Strategic Plan (CSP).

All DoDDS Pacific schools are fully accredited by The North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI). NCA CASI is a non-governmental organization that accredits almost 10,000 public and private schools in 19 states, the Navajo Nation, and DoDDS schools. In earning accreditation, DoDDS Pacific schools meet NCA’s quality standards and implement a school improvement process focused on increasing student performance.

Accreditation eases the transition of students as they move from one accredited school to another. The regional nature of accreditation allows a receiving school in the same or another state to assess the quality of a sending school and accept the incoming student’s credits and academic record. This ease of transfer applies across the nation through reciprocal agreements between the regional accrediting agencies.

Teachers working on SIP
A School Improvement Team (SIT) leads the school improvement process in each school. SIT membership includes the principal, teachers, parents, a local military commander representative, and at high schools and many middle schools, a student representative. The responsibilities of the SIT are to provide leadership throughout the entire school improvement process, to maintain constant community focus on improving student learning, and to monitor progress and document change in student performance.



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Last Updated: September 2, 2008
 
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