Each of the application projects has its own collection of documents that will interest you. This list includes the ones that can be accessed from this site. Check with the organization for a complete list of their publications.
Chicago Schools Alliance
Chicago Schools Alliance. School Visits: A Tool for Improvement. January 2006. Download
This "brief" was prepared by the Alliance to answer questions that Chicago educators raised about the differences between PBI and other familiar visiting applications including Illinois Quality Review and “walk-throughs.” The paper concludes with a description of the advantages to schools of PBI's rigorous approach.
Chicago Schools Alliance. PBI School Visit Team Member Reflections--2005. May 2005. Download
A collection of reflections about the value of the PBI visit experience by people who served as team members on the Alliance visits in 2005.
Accreditation
Thomas A. Wilson. Accreditation Standards and School Improvement: Putting Methodology in its Proper Place. NCATE, Washington D.C. 1998. Order from publisher.
This monograph, appearing in a NCATE publication, examines how starting with the methodology for measuring institutional performance defines the nature of standards that can be established. It argues that a standards based system that supports the growth of institutional performance must start with the purpose for the assessment and NOT with the available methods of assessment.
Thomas A. Wilson. Visiting Accreditation: Strengthening the Regional Accreditation Process. LAB at Brown. March 1999. Download
This is the report from the multi-year field study of how to strengthen American secondary school accreditation in New England, carried out by Thomas A. Wilson under the auspices of the LAB at Brown. NEASC enthusiastically received the report and implemented many of its recommendations. The study was an important resource for the development of PBI and the SALT school visit. It served to show that the basic methodology underlying British inspection was also underlying American accreditation, mitigating obvious concerns that PBI might be too "English" for American institutions, values and accountability practices.
SALT
SALT Documents
Catalpa Ltd. and the Rhode Island Department of Education. Handbook for Chairs of the SALT School Visit, 2nd Edition Revised. Catalpa Ltd. September 2006. Download
This third major revision of the Handbook in ten years provides the SALT visit chairs with an organized approach and up-to-date guide to the complexities of their work that is governed by the SALT Visit protocol, accredited by Catalpa and approved by the Rhode Island Department of Education.
Catalpa Ltd. and the Rhode Island Department of Education. SALT Visit Documents. Rhode Island Department of Education. September 2006.
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The titles of the complete collection of SALT visit documents.
SALT Team Recruitment Brochure . Rhode Island Department of Education. 9/06. Download
Recruitment brochure for team members.
Rhode Island Department of Education. The SALT Visit Protocol. September 2006. Download
The PBI accredited document that governs the conduct of the SALT visit.
The Rhode Island School Accountability Team. SALT: A Blueprint for School Accountability for Learning and Teaching. Rhode Island Department of Education. July 1996. Download
This is the initial plan for SALT as a comprehensive state system for local school accountability. The SALT visit is a key component in that it provided a different tool that made it possible to vision a stronger accountability system.
SALT School Visits
SALT Visit Team. SALT Visit Team Report for Laurel Hill Avenue Elementary School. Rhode Island Department of Education. April 2, 2004. Download
An urban elementary school.
SALT Visit Team. SALT Visit Report for Leo A. Savoy School. Rhode Island Department of Education. December 9, 2005. Download
An urban elementary school.
SALT Visit Team. SALT Visit Team Report for Primrose Hill School. Rhode Island Department of Education. March 10, 2006. Download
A suburban elementary school.
SALT Visit Team. SALT Visit Team Report for Samuel W. Bridgham Middle School. Rhode Island Department of Education. March 24, 2006. Download
An urban middle school.
SALT Visit Team. SALT Visit Report for East Greenwich High School. Rhode Island Department of Education. January 13, 2006. Download
A moderate size suburban high school.
SALT Visit Team. SALT Visit Team Report for Coventry High School. Rhode Island Department of Education. April 7, 2006. Download
A large suburban high school.
