Group

Accreditation Support Earned

Board

A distinctive branding or mark of quality recognized nationally and internationally, that affords external recognition of the Memphis City Schools’ commitment and movement toward quality assurance practices and holistic accountability.

Central Office

Enhanced organizational or staff capacity to:

1. provide guidance and support to schools required to collaboratively engage parents, and community stakeholders in a continuous improvement process to satisfy local, state, and federal continuous improvement process requirements and earn the public’s trust;
1. provide principals and their faculty with the appropriate training, guidance and support for participating in the Quality Assurance Review that enhances educational practices and conditions that research and best practice indicate are necessary for schools to achieve quality student performance and organizational effectiveness; and
2. support principals and teachers in the engagement of proven processes for improvement that are grounded in best practices from the education/business fields.

Schools

A greater capacity to obtain and sustain:

1. professional development opportunities such as annual conferences and state workshops on all aspects of school improvement;
2. peer-recommended practices, best practices, and resources and tools across 23,000 public and private schools throughout the world; and
3. access to educational and financial practices, guides, handbooks, primers, resources, tools and Web sites aimed at maximizing student success and school effectiveness.

Students

1. A recognized standing for scholarships and enrollment in accredited colleges and universities throughout the nation and world.
2. Offers greater opportunities to gain access to federal loans, scholarships, and military and other programs that require regional, national or internationally accreditation.
3. Enhances transferability of credits from school to school.

Parents

Opportunities for children will experience the quality of educational practices and services that children in accredited schools next door and worldwide receive. That is to say that children’ schools will have an acceptable number of counselors in the building, books in the library, teachers in the classroom, and etc.

Taxpayers

Assurance that taxes are supporting students, teachers and administrators whose classroom practices follow generally acceptable standards of the education/business/government community. Additionally, these practices are monitored and evaluated on a regularly scheduled basis for compliance with quality educational standards by independent educators from outside of the Memphis City Schools.