With nearly 200 elementary schools in our FCC Accreditation Program, we have a number of schools hosting visitation teams in a given semester for the "School Improvement Plan" (SIP) process.  In fact, usually 30-40 schools host visitation teams each academic year.  This teams include 2-4 members, depending upon the size of the school.  These members come from outside dioceses (i.e. other than the host school's diocese).  Team members can be teachers, guidance counselors, educational media specialists, assistant principals, principals, etc.  In some cases, the members are from Diocesan School Offices (i.e. Superintendents or Associates).

With this in mind, our FCC Accreditation Committee has been setting up training sessions for new team members throughout the Program.  In the Fall, training sessions were held for the five following (Arch)Dioceses:

• Dioceses of Savannah and St. Augustine, with Pat Bronsard, Associate Superintendent, Diocese of St. Augustine, as Trainer.

• Diocese of Orlando, with Jim Cooney, Associate Superintendent, as Trainer.

• Diocese of Palm Beach and Archdiocese of Miami, with Sr. Joan Dawson, FCCAC Chair and Superintendent for the Palm Beach Diocese, as Trainer.

The sessions thus far have added about 50 new team members to our rosters.  Training sessions are pending for the remaining dioceses in our program, for the current semester.  These include Pensacola-Tallahassee, St. Petersburg and Venice.