Middle States Association

MSA is proud to welcome 11 new commissioners to our Accreditation Commission!

Commissioners are the heartbeat of our accreditation process. Elected by The Commissions, they review accreditation reports, guide MSA's strategic plan, and bring the real-world experience of school leadership to every decision. These 11 individuals represent the depth and diversity of our global membership — from public school districts to independent schools to international institutions.

Welcome, Jennifer Marisi, Danny Robertozzi, Elizabeth Eastwick, Perliter Walters-Gilliam, Shahla Anbreen, Dana Persico, Gloria García De Jesús, Gayle Veitch, Michele Dowell, Emily Parsons, and Syed Sultan Ahmed.

We are honored to have you.

Learn more about MSA accreditation at msa-cess.org.

Most AI policies in MENA schools were written fast, and written alone.

A leadership team huddled, drafted a stance, and rolled it out. Reasonable, given the pace. But a policy written by a few people for everyone else rarely survives contact with a real classroom. Teachers improvise around it. Students find the gaps. The document sits in a folder while the actual decisions happen elsewhere, in WhatsApp groups, in individual classrooms, in the moment.

The real work isn’t writing the policy, it’s building the shared process that lets a whole school community keep making good decisions about AI as it keeps changing.

That’s the question we’re spending three days on this October in Cairo. More soon.

When AI arrived, Choate Rosemary Hall didn't issue a ban, and they didn't say yes to everything. They asked a harder question: what do we actually value?

In this episode of Evolution Stories, Ellen Devine walks through how Choate built a school-wide AI stance rooted in discernment, and what it took to bring a full community along.

Listen here: https://www.msaevolutionlab.com/evo-stories/podcast/ellen-devine