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| Professional Development Calendar Available |
The AdvancED Illinois Office has developed a comprehensive professional development calendar to assist your school with its continuous improvement efforts. From exploring the visioning process in order to connect to student learning to using data in your school improvement planning – the workshops are designed to address your on-going continuous improvement work. To review the workshop topics and register, please visit our Professional Development Calendar on the AdvancED Illinois Web page. This page offers you the opportunity to review all workshops available locally and nation-wide. If you have any questions or require assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact the AdvancED Illinois State Office. |
AdvancED Illinois will host the Third Annual Fall Practitioners Conference September 15-16 at the I Hotel and Conference Center located in Champaign. This conference is designed to address your school improvement work to help grow student performance. This year's theme is Inspire. Create. Accelerate. and the conference coordinators are currently seeking proposals to host concurrent sessions around it. Please contact the state office if you would like a copy of the Call for Proposal.
In addition to our general sessions, we will be recognizing the 2010 AdvancED Illinois Excellence in Education award recipient. Presentations also will be made to districts that have attained District Accreditation during the last year and schools that have maintained 50 and 100 years of continuous accreditation, among other recognitions.
There will be a pre-conference training session provided on serving on a Quality Assurance Review (QAR) team. This is scheduled to occur on September 14. More information will be provided as the training date nears. Please mark your calendar with these dates and watch for registration information coming soon. |
Update Your Demographic Information |
In order for us to maintain an accurate database for our accredited schools and districts, the demographic information contained on the AdvancED Web site should be updated on a yearly basis (or more frequently if needed). The demographics report includes such information as the head of institution, mail and e-mail addresses, along with phone and fax numbers. It also includes the number of students and full time equivalent staff, as well as, correct billing addresses and other vital information. To ensure that you are receiving all mail and e-mail communications from the state and corporate AdvancED offices, please make sure your information is current.To update your demographics, go to http://www.advanc-ed.org/ and log-in with your e-mail address and password. After you log in, mouse over the Accreditation tab, and click on Demographics Update. If you have not logged into the website before or if you need assistance, please contact the AdvancED Illinois Office. |
International Summit Expands Program |
More featured topics and speakers have been added to the 2011 AdvancED International Summit program. The Summit, which takes place March 19-21 in Chicago, IL, is themed the Power to Transform and will engage thought leaders, practitioners, and policymakers in deliberation on today’s most pressing and provocative issues facing our educational system. The summit program features dynamic professional learning opportunities that will challenge your thinking. Some of the program highlights include:
- National Teacher of the year, Sarah Brown Wessling
- Award Winning television journalist and co-founder of My Sister's Keeper, Liz Walker
- Critically acclaimed comedy troupe Wavelength
- Interactive AdvancED Hub, featuring a vendor walk and technology café
- Pre-conference training and education sessions
These are just a few of the new additions to the program. And if you can't make it for the entire conference, organizers are making available a special one-day experience at the special price of $250! Visit the AdvancED Web site at www.advanc-ed.org/summit2011 for more program information and to register. To register for the One Day Experience, select 'single day' as your registration type. |
Accreditation Progress Report 101 |
The Accreditation Progress Report (APR) engages schools and districts in focused internal analysis of its actions and progress since their QAR visit. In completing the report, the school reviews each required action, summarizes steps taken, describes how the steps and results were evaluated to determine success, and references the evidence that the school has gathered to support its fulfillment of the required action. The Accreditation Progress Report is a required component of the accreditation process and is submitted within two years following the QAR visit. Although the report is required, it is a great tool for schools and districts to us in order to stay focused on their quest for school improvement. Please contact the AdvancED Illinois Office if you have any questions regarding your APR. | Schools Achieve Accreditation |
The AdvancED Accreditation Commission convened in January. Members of the Commission took action on schools that hosted QAR visits this past fall. Please join us as we congratulate the following schools for earning and/or maintaining accreditation through AdvancED's accrediting division of NCA CASI:
| Althoff Catholic High School | Belleville | | Fox Technological School | North Aurora | | Frederick Douglass | Chicago | | Hononegah Community High School | Rockton | | Mascoutah Middle School | Mascoutah | | Rochelle Township High School | Rochelle | | Safe Harbor School | Manteno | | Saint Thomas Catholic School | Philo | | Saint Viator High School | Arlington Heights | | TEAM Englewood Community Academy | Chicago | | The Goddard School - Plainfield | Plainfield |
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