Accredit Learning or SchoolAdvisor.Com Will | Peter Mott | 5 Min Read

Accredit Learning or SchoolAdvisor.Com Will | Peter Mott | 5 Min Read

Many current accreditation protocols have come under fire — for a number of legitimate reasons:

  • the process is expensive
  • ‘self-evaluations’ are labor-intensive, occur in largely disconnected silos (e.g., curriculum; leadership/governance; faculty/staff; operational systems, etc.), and produce mountains of paper — and little else
  • peer assessment is hampered by implicit conflicts of interest (the assessor may become the assessed before long)
  • accreditation has not fundamentally changed many schools; recommendations tend to be too general (“ensure that a system of monitoring the implementation of your mission and vision is in place”) or they address mostly procedural and policy-related matters
  • accreditation standards are designed to accommodate as many extant curricula and approaches to learning as possible: as a result, standards inadvertently embrace the lowest possible common denominator; at their core, accreditation standards are agnostic and do not necessarily promote ‘best practice’ as identified by educational and neurological research
  • few schools are denied accreditation once they have engaged with the process and, if truth be told, it is not in the accreditation agencies’ economic interests to withhold membership from schools seeking their approbation.

And so, the world teems with schools that proudly sport their accreditation agency’s logo on their website but…

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Peter Mott

Peter C. Mott has more than 40 years of experience as a Director of International Schools, a Director at the New England Association of Schools & Colleges (NEASC), and numerous educational Board leadership positions. He has conducted workshops at the Principals Training Center and has presented at virtually every regional conference for international schools. He has led dozens of accreditation visits to schools on every continent. He has developed innovative new curricular pathways and, together with his colleagues Kevin Bartlett and Greg Curtis, is the author of ACE Learning, NEASC’s groundbreaking new accreditation protocol which aims to transform rather than simply improve learning communities. He was instrumental in developing a symbiotic partnership with KHDA in Dubai which oversees and inspects private schools. Peter is passionate about shifting mindsets in education and challenging cherished assumptions and premises that have shaped K-12 education for more than a century. This is why, in 2017, Peter founded TreeTopVisions, a consulting and advocacy firm dedicated to looking at and re-imagining education from different perspectives and vantage points.