Accreditation

Creative Skills Institute (CSI) is the licensing name of the AELTA Middle East Professional Development Center (AELTA) in Saudi Arabia. It is the first international Education Service Agency (ESA) accredited by the North Central Association of Schools and Colleges Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement(NCA-CASI) under the organization of AdvancED. The Center has been accredited since 2007. Participants in our courses have an opportunity to earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

AdvancED:
“AdvancED is dedicated to advancing excellence in education worldwide.  The North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI), Northwest Accreditation Commission (NWAC), and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI) are accreditation divisions of AdvancED”

AdvancED Improvement Cycle

NCA-CASI
The North Central Association of Schools and Colleges Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement ( NCA-CASI )

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

http://www.ncacasi.org/

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.