Cognia™ is a global nonprofit improvement organization dedicated to helping institutions and other education providers grow learners, educators, and leaders. Cognia offers accreditation and certification, assessment, and professional services within a framework of continuous improvement. Serving more than 36,000 public and private institutions from early learning through high school in more than 85 countries, Cognia brings a global perspective to advancing teaching and learning. Find out more at cognia.org.

We hope you find our ever-evolving accreditation policies, standards, and requirements relevant to the current education landscape and to your system or institution. As you progress through this workbook, we hope you also gain a realization that our accreditation and continuous improvement process is responsive to variations in the purposes (missions/visions) of our educational institutions. Above all, we hope your accreditation experiences through Cognia are relevant and meaningful on behalf of the learners you serve.

-Preface, Cognia Self-Assessment Workbook