ROOTED IN Improvement
Every Six Years
School Endures Lengthy Accreditation Self-Study For the past 18 months, De La Salle and its faculty and staff, led by Dr. Elizabeth Berkes, Director of Faculty Development, and Ms. Lillian Dickson, Director of Academic Services, prepared for its once-everysix-years Western Catholic Education Association (WCEA) accreditation review. The process culminated on February 16th, after a four-day visit by the WCEA Visiting Team comprised of six private and public school educators from around Northern California.
What is the WCEA?
The WCEA is a private educational accrediting agency established under the auspices of the Bishops of the Catholic Dioceses of California. Accreditation verifies the quality of a school’s overall educational program. There are two dimensions to accreditation in the WCEA context: 1) an internal or subjective dimension and 2) an external or objective dimension. The internal dimension has to do with the school examining itself so as to see and declare what it does well and what it needs to improve. The external dimension of accreditation in the WCEA context has to do with an outside body verifying the Catholic educational quality of the school experience. De La Salle went through its last accreditation process during the 2015-16 school year.
Pictured is the Accreditation Team that visited De La Salle High School in February. The picture of J. D. Childs, Jim Jordan (Visiting Team Chair), Terese Ghilarducci, Kristin Hannon, Jennifer Reinwald, and Judee Sani was taken in the school’s chapel on the first day of the visit. 7
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