School Improvement
Continuous school improvement is an embedded behavior rooted in the school's culture that constantly focuses on the conditions, processes, and practices that improve teaching and learning. Schools use student performance results and analyze data from various interwoven components to develop plans and implement improvement actions to drive education quality and improved student outcomes.
School Improvement Plan
DoDEA Blueprint Goals
Goal 1: Student Excellence
Challenge and prepare each student to maximize his or her academic growth and well-being for college, career, and life.
Goal 2: School Excellence
Develop and sustain each school to be high-performing within a culture of innovation, collaboration, continuous improvement and caring relationships.
Goal 3: Talent ExcellenceÂ
Recruit, develop, empower, and retain a high performing workforce that reflects our students.
Goal 4: Organizational ExcellenceÂ
Build an enduring, accountable, and responsive organization that provides appropriate resources, direction, and support to accomplish the Mission.
Region Goal
Access to Excellent Instruction for ALL Students!Â
Europe as a High-Reliability Organization (HRO)
This is VMHS School Action Plan (SAP) to ensure Europe South is a high-reliability organization to achieve our school goal. During the months of August-November 2024, this SAP was collaboratively built through numerous collaborative sessions with District and Region. It represents our collective goals for student achievement and instruction throughout the school.Â
Vicenza High School Actions
Literacy
Provide standards-based explicit instruction on writing using the AVID Writing for Disciplinary Literacy and Inquiry strategies with daily practice of readable writing and quarterly polished writing using evidence from multiple texts across all content areas and DoDEA-adopted materials. Â
Mathematics
Provide standards-aligned explicit instruction on math with daily practice of modeling and reasoning using Carnegie Learning, including Mathia. Â
Mission
Educate, Engage, and Empower military-connected students to succeed in a dynamic world.
Vision
Excellence in Education for Every Student, Every Day, Everywhere
DoDEA Accreditation
Accreditation is the act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to an educational institution that maintains suitable standards). Educational accreditation is a type of quality assurance process under which services and operations of educational institutions or programs are evaluated by an external agency to determine if applicable standards are met. If standards are met, accredited status is granted by the agency.
Cognia is the accreditation agency for all DoDEA schools and the world's largest education community. As the global leader in advancing education excellence through accreditation and school improvement, Cognia brings together more than 100 years of experience and the expertise of three United States-based accreditation agencies - the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA/CASI), Northwest Accreditation Commission (NWAC), and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS/CASI). Accreditation is pivotal to leveraging education quality and continuous improvement.
Detailed accreditation information is provided on the DoDEA Accreditation page.
Comprehensive Assessment System
In conjunction with the implementation of the College and Career Ready Standards (CCRS), DoDEA is implementing the Comprehensive Assessment System (CAS) that includes all of the assessments that are administered system-wide within DoDEA. These include the PSAT, Advanced Placement, NAEP, and College and Career Ready Standards (CCRS) assessments. All assessments included in the DoDEA Comprehensive Assessment System support student learning, provide information for decision makers concerning instructional programs and services, and inform parents. DoDEA is committed to student achievement and assessments that raise the bar for the students to ensure they are on the path to success.
