Middle-States Accreditation and Wootton

From April 19-April 22, 2005, a Visiting Team of Middle-States Evaluators reviewed the work done by the Wootton School community as a part of the Middle-States Accreditation process. During their visit, they spoke with parents, students and staff to determine how the Wootton Community plans together to meet their stated objectives. As an important part of the Wootton Community, we want you to be well informed about Wootton’s plans and objectives in particular.

Past Middle-States Evaluations were detailed studies of such things as facilities, services, departments and programs done by parents, students, staff, central office staff, and general community. The AFG process takes a different approach. Rather than taking a snapshot of the school at a particular moment in time, the AFG process calls for the school community to look at what they are doing and how they want to improve it, developing objectives, programs and timelines towards that end.

Our AFG Planning Committee and Action Teams have been at work since the summer of 2003, determining school-wide objectives and working in action teams to create and implement action plans so that we can attain those objectives. This work is monitored monthly by our action teams and planning committees. In addition, the Middle States Organization will be tracking our progress through reports and site visits over the next 7 years.

We hope you will take the time to be fully informed about the AFG Process at Wootton by reviewing both our mission statement and our objectives below. Please forward any suggestions or questions you might have to Wootton’s AFG Internal Coordinators: Dr. Doran, Dr. Pohl, Mr. Swift and Mr. Owusu. In addition, please look for updates and further details about the AFG process and our progress towards meeting our two stated objectives in the PTSA newsletter and on Wootton’s web-site.