Cognia helps close performance gaps and creates culture of ongoing improvement

[...]Mr Welbeck notes that thanks to the accreditation process and its focus on continuous improvement, school officials systematically: * Reflect on what they are doing * Seek to prove what the problem is and determine whether it requires a solution * Determine what type of solution is required based on evidence * Judge whether the proposed solution will solve the problem * Implement the solution and monitor results * Make regular changes based on results * Repeat the continuous improvement cycle New tools lead the way Mr Welbeck notes that the Cognia Effective Learning Environments Observation Tool® (eleot®) and stakeholder surveys have been particularly effective. For information on Cognia accreditation contact Dr Annette Bohling, Chief Certification Officer, or visit cognia.org Sheppard Ranbom is an education writer based in Washington, DC and president of CommunicationWorks, a Washington, DC-based public affairs and education consulting firm focused on improving the quality of education in the United States and other countries. Cognia, formerly AdvancED l Measured Progress, is the world's largest accreditor and offers accreditation and certification, assessment, professional learning, and improvement services to institutions and other education providers, serving over 80 countries and 36,000 institutions.