Strengthening Quality in Schools (SQS), a Sandia-led partnership, teaches Baldrige-based concepts to educators. SQS sites continue to gain measurable results in student achievement and overall school performance. Good things are happening all over New Mexico.

Students sharing their goals. The mission of SQS is to accelerate improvement of student achievement in New Mexico using Baldrige Criteria and Quality Concepts.

• Gallup's Tohatchi Middle School students raised math scores
  from the 17th percentile to the 44th percentile in one year.
• Reading scores jump from a grade level of 1.1 to 3.76 for 4th
  grade students at Albuquerque's Valle Vista Elementary School
  in just one year.
• Educators from 402 schools and 60 districts have participated
  in SQS since 1992.

Laurel Moore - limoore@sandia.gov
Sandia National Laboratories
P. O. Box 5800, MS 1351
Albuquerque, NM 87185-1351
Phone: (505) 845-9955
Fax: (505) 844-1228

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