Metcalf Named To First AdvancED Global Council
Phil Metcalf, North Webster, is among five individuals named to the First AdvandED Global Council.
AdvancED is pleased to announce the first inaugural AdvancED Global Council, a five-member group that governs AdvancED schools in the following regions of the world: Asia/Australia, Eurasia and Middle East/Africa. This new council consists of a cadre of men and women selected based on their professional leadership, personal rigor and contribution in the education community, within their regions and globally.
AdvancED is excited to have each individual join and contribute to its vision of becoming the professional leader in delivering quality accreditation and related school improvement tools and services worldwide.
The newly announced Council members are:
- Maha Bawazir, Founder and CEO of Global Education Consulting, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Jason Brown, Principal of American School Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia
- Ghada Dajani, Managing Director of Modern English School, Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
- Shereen Gobran, Founder and Director of Liwa International School, Al Ain, UAE
- Phil Metcalf, AdvancED Lead Evaluator and member of the AdvancED Accreditation Commission, North Webster, Indiana, USA
Metcalf has been associated with AdvancED in Indiana since 1995, conducting data analysis workshops and training sessions in schools and at state conferences along with being named a field consultant to help schools with their accreditation progress reports and consulting with schools through state department of education grants. He has been going overseas to conduct external reviews for AdvancED at international schools since 2009. He has been to the Middle East, the Far East, Europe, Russia, and China; he will be going to India this year.
He has conducted data analysis training sessions at the AdvancED Global Conferences in Cairo, Dubai, Riyadh, and Jeddah for the past five years. This year Metcalf has been named the keynote speaker for all four conferences.
What is AdvancED?
AdvancED is the largest community of education professionals in the world. It is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that conducts rigorous, on-site external reviews of PreK-12 schools and school systems to ensure that all learners realize their full potential. While AdvancED’s expertise is grounded in more than a hundred years of work in school accreditation, the organization is far from a typical accrediting agency. Its goal isn’t to certify that schools are good enough. Rather, its commitment is to help schools improve.
Combining the knowledge and expertise of a research institute, the skills of a management consulting firm and the passion of a grassroots movement for educational change, AdvancED serves as a trusted partner to 32,000 schools and school systems.
AdvancED schools employ more than four million educators and enroll more than 20 million students annually across the United States and 70 other nations. AdvancED was created through a 2006 merger of the PreK-12 divisions of the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools on Accreditation and School Improvement and the Commission on International and Trans-regional Accreditation. This organization was further expanded through the addition of the Northwest Accreditation Commission in 2011.