PDK Audit - Phi Delta Kappa, the Auditors
September 4, 2007Phi Delta Kappa International
Phi Delta Kappa International was founded on January 24, 1906, and is headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana. Since its founding this member-based association has served more than 500,000 members in communities across the United States and abroad. The association maintains an extensive network of more than 650 PDK chapters in the United States, Canada, and nations in Europe and Asia. The association publishes the Phi Delta Kappan, the most cited education journal in the United States, and sponsors the annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools.
Phi Delta Kappa's Curriculum Management Center offers districts the Curriculum Management Audit, the most comprehensive examination of a school district's curriculum management system available. Governed by the same principles and standards as a financial audit, the curriculum audit determines how effectively the school district designs and delivers its curriculum. The Curriculum Management Audit is based on effective schools research and was developed by Fenwick English, founder of the International Curriculum Management Center.
Rosanne Stripling, Ed.D., Lead Auditor
Rosanne Stripling is currently serving as Professor and Dean, College of Arts & Sciences and Education at Texas A&M University-Texarkana. Dr. Stripling joined A&M -Texarkana in 2000 as professor of education administration, after having spent a career in public education. She is the former superintendent of schools in the Waco Independent School District in Waco, Texas. Dr. Stripling received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Texas A&M University-Commerce and her doctorate in educational leadership from Baylor University. Her areas of interest and research include school improvement, curriculum development and alignment, program evaluation, executive leadership, and school law.
Dr. Stripling has worked as a consultant for the California State Department of Education, the Texas Education Agency, and several Texas and Arkansas school districts in assisting teachers and administrators in low performing schools to remove the barriers to higher student achievement. Dr. Stripling completed her Curriculum Management Audit training in San Antonio, Texas, in 1996, and has conducted many audits across the nation, including those of large districts such as Anchorage, Alaska; Fort Worth, Texas; and Baltimore County, Maryland. She has received many professional awards, including Woman of Merit Award (alumnus), Baylor University (2002), Texas Nominee for American Association of School Administrators (National) Superintendent of the Year (2000), Cooper Foundation Acknowledgement of Excellence $25,000 cash award (2000), and the Rapoport Foundation Leadership Award (1999).