Mission Accomplished!

NLSA Exemplary School provides us with an opportunity to link great ideas and replicable practices with Lutheran schools all around our synod. We have concluded our amazing visits to the candidate schools who will be considered for Exemplary status. Visiting 7 great schools over the course of the last three months has required a great deal of preparation, communication, and dedicated efforts on the part of the schools who were nominated and the individuals who served as validators.  I want to thank the schools who were nominated and visited this year. They demonstrated hospitality, school quality and a passion for serving children and families effectively.  These schools shown like bright stars during our visits. We were amazed by what we observed.

I also want to thank every validator who took time out of busy school schedules to participate as a team member. NLSA was well served by your efforts and I hope that you will be able to apply many of the things we learned from these great schools in your school.

Next year’s group of exemplary schools will be selected in an on-line meeting on February 15 by the NLSA District Accreditation Commissioners. The official announcement will be made during Lutheran Schools Week in March. With recognition comes the responsibility and our new group of Exemplary Schools will soon be busy preparing to share their Best Practices with others using webinars and print articles during the 2012-13 school year. I can’t wait!