Kansas NCA/AdvancED
Accreditation News Release

St. Rose Philippine Duchesne Catholic School hosted a Quality Assurance Review visit on October 14, 2010 and received their North Central Association/AdvancED accreditation for another five-year term! This process engages the entire school community in a continuous process of self-evaluation, reflection, and improvement. It invites external scrutiny and welcomes the constructive feedback of peers. It demands rigor, is based on data, and approaches documentation of results with discipline.

Schools and districts benefit from accreditation through objective peer review, attainment of high standards, and engagement in continuous improvement. Through accreditation, schools and districts receive an external mark of quality; become part of an international network of 23,000 schools and districts in 65 countries; and gain access to a wide range of resources, professional development, and tools to assist them with continuous improvement. Perhaps more importantly, students benefit from accreditation because, through the accreditation process, their school or district has committed to raising student performance and will be held accountable for improving student learning on a continual basis.

Dr. Nancy Bolz, director of Kansas NCA, stated that St. Rose Philippine Duchesne Catholic School is to be commended for choosing to engage in a process that increases the quality of education for their students beyond the compliance of the state’s required Quality Performance Accreditation system in Kansas. While the state system involves a very political and singular focus on Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), the NCA/AdvancED process facilitates monitoring quality across seven standards.” These standards are:

• Vision and Purpose

• Governance and Leadership

• Teaching and Learning

• Documenting and Using Results

• Resources and Support Systems

• Stakeholder Communications and Relationships

• Commitment to Continuous Improvement

During the recent accreditation visit, the Quality Assurance Review Team conferred the following commendations on St. Rose Philippine Duchesne Catholic School:

• A welcoming, safe, faith-based, and student-centered family environment exists at St. Rose School. Their overall mission permeates the school.

• The visionary leadership at St. Rose is highly supportive of continuous improvement efforts and is proactively working to increase student achievement.

• The resourceful and caring faculty and staff at St. Rose believe in the essence of their mission and work toward the delivery of a quality education for each child.

• Student achievement is a strong school-wide focus. Academic progress, particularly in math and reading, has greatly increased.

• All available resources, including a highly qualified teaching faculty and volunteers, are being used to their maximum potential to further the mission of the school.

• Numerous completed and planned facility upgrades have enhanced the educational environment at St. Rose.

The documents for this visit will be reviewed and recommended by the Kansas State Council at their January, 2011 meeting and will be approved by the Accreditation Commission at their next meeting. To learn more about this accreditation process, go to www.advanc-ed.org.

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