Accreditation

The AELTA Professional Development Center is dually accredited by North Central Association of Schools and Colleges Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA) and the Commission on International and Transregional Association (CITA). Participants of AELTA professional development programs and course have an opportunity to earn continuing education credits.

Websites:

The North Central Association of Schools and Colleges Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA) http://www.ncacasi.org/

The Commission on International and Transregional Accreditation (CITA) www.citaschools.org

North Central Association
Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement
Vision, Mission, and Values

Vision

The North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement assures the public of quality learning opportunities by holding the education profession to ever-higher standards.
NCA CASI is the professional leader in delivering quality accreditation and related services to education entities worldwide.

Mission

Through accreditation and related services, NCA CASI continuously improves the quality of education and challenges education entities to prepare each and every learner for success.

Core Activities that Support the Mission:

• Set quality standards for the education profession
• Provide external review and validation of education entities
• Accredit education entities that achieve the standards and engage in continuous improvement
• Challenge and support education entities to continually improve student performance

Values

High Standards

• We hold ourselves and education entities to the highest professional standards.

External Review

• We validate the results of our work and those of education entities through external review.

Continuous Improvement

• We challenge ourselves and education entities to be better today than we were yesterday.

Accountability

• We hold ourselves and education entities responsible for honoring promises, delivering results, and disclosing information to the public.

Equity

• We commit ourselves and education entities to prepare each and every learner for success.

Data-driven Decision Making

• We require our decisions and those of education entities to be based in data.

Research-based Change

• We require ourselves and education entities to use research-based strategies to drive organizational change.

Standards of Accreditation

Commission on International and Transregional Accreditation (CITA) www.citaschools.org

About CITA

The Commission on International and Trans-Regional Accreditation (CITA) is dedicated to advancing the quality of education through accreditation. Comprised of the premier American educational accrediting agencies, CITA accredits more than 30,000 public and private educational institutions in 100 countries, touching over 17 million students.