NEASC Visitor Training Workshop

By Jim Elvin Minj,
Performing Arts Teacher, Learning Leader Arts

The sessions covered various topics, including observing for learning impacts, interview skills, evaluating the 4Cs, and report writing. The primary focus of the training was on ACE Learning, a paradigm that enables schools to attain NEASC Accreditation while emphasising effective learning and teaching in a contemporary context. NEASC’s ten ACE Learning Principles provide a framework for in-depth discussions about effective learning.

In the training I learnt about ACE Learning and how it introduces a transformative approach to accreditation, aiming to reshape schools and accreditation into instruments for systemic change. It challenges traditional educational language and encourages schools to become learning communities guided by a clear vision of learning in our times. ACE urges reflection on learner impacts rather than outputs, aiming to transform schools into "interactive museums of learning opportunities."