Accreditation Process - International Education

ACE Learning entails several phases culminating in the External Review Visit (ERV) conducted by a team of trained peer educators that typically leads to accreditation for candidate schools or re-accreditation for member schools. Schools undergo a re-accreditation process every five years.

• Foundation Standards (report and visit)
• ACE Learning Principles Preparatory Phase (report and visit)
• Internal Reflection (report)
• External Review (report and visit)

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ACE Learning is as much a developmental process as an evaluative one. NEASC meets schools where they are in their process of building greater effectiveness as impactful learning communities for all learners. Having demonstrated compliance with Foundation Standards, schools move on to imagine new ways of supporting deep learning, using the ACE Learning Principles as both guide and provocation. While exploring each of the Learning Principles, schools are asked to indicate where they are on the dynamic ACE Learning transformational continuum as they help shape impactful learning inside and outside the classroom.

One of the requirements of membership in the New England Association of Schools and Colleges is the completion and submission of an annual update of your school’s information by the school head. Heads of Schools will be contacted with reminders and instructions for doing so each year. If you have any general questions regarding this requirement or process, please do not hesitate to contact us at cie@neasc.org.