School Improvement
HNCA accredited schools and districts collaborate to:
The accreditation process:
Encourages schools to engage in continuous improvement through standards and peer review
Measures a wide variety of inputs, processes and outputs includes a wide variety of stakeholders in the improvement process
Criteria for applying standards are known
Measures align with the Michigan Curriculum Framework
Controls for socioeconomic status through disaggregation of data
Uses multiple measures of student achievement
Includes all students Criteria included are under control of the school
Includes trend data rather than one-year snapshots Includes both quantitative and qualitative measures
Analyses examine best instructional practices
