Show Y R tI T iE tite I t Hy Uy Ur Or Wayne Held Superintendent ent West Junior High accredited j i l i Through herculean efforts by Principal Dan Good and the West Junion High School faculty the Uintah School District will now have one additional additional ad ad- school fully tully accredited It now stands on equal footing tooting with any other junior hl hit school in the state Accreditation n is a v voluntary nongovernmental nongovernmental nongovernmental non non- governmental effort of the district to effect basic quality control without to a highly centralized sterile system It is an indigenous effort of all aU American schools to maintain the rich academic values implicit In the local of ot our schools while at the same time adhering to standards for effective education that transcend the local district and the state sk Accreditation is institutional rather than programmatic that is it is based on the ability of the entire school to meet the quality standards established by the Northwest Association of Secondary Schools This accreditation is based on specific standards for good schools established by the membership itself These standards provide the threshold of basic preconditions for effective education in any school Accreditation is proof to the public that the school possesses at least the I minimal conditions required for good i II education for the young people coming to its doors Accreditation imposes genuine accountability upon both the I school and its public The West Jr High was wash h based on those purposes and goals Identified by the schools school's total community com coma as being its primary thrust It did not seek to impose al alien upon the school This was a process consisting of ot 1 an self self- study by the schools school's staff 2 a review of the school by an external evaluation team of wide state-wide experts and 3 a systematic Implement implementation of ot both the results of ot the study self and the report of the evaluation team in an ongoing effort efort to sustain the momentum of improvement and changes in the school This evaluation was an operation by which the school pulls itself up to higher levels of effectiveness The Northwest Association has reached members an increase of members in eight years since 1970 The public wants to make certain that the students their school serves Is accountable West Jr High School is isnow isnow isnow now accountable as indicated by the results of the evaluation The Uintah School District Board of Education and the administrative team would like to thank the administration the school staff and the parents and students for their patience and efforts in bringing about this trus most important objective It will help us improve our efforts even better than previously Weve We've been proud of West Jr High School previously but now the entire state state can be as proud of her as we have been |