Julie BrownDirector of Curriculum &
Instructional Services
Michelle CallardAdminstrative Asst./Personnel Services & Curriculum
School Improvement
HNCA accredited schools and districts collaborate to:
- Develop standards
- Apply standards
- Engage each other in an internal self-study
- Organize on-site evaluations by external reviewers.
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
