AdvancED is the largest community of education professionals in the world—a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that conducts rigorous on-site external reviews of Pre-K-12 schools and school systems to ensure accreditation compliance. The international or ganization was created through a 2006 merger of the Pre-K-12 divisions of the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI) and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI)—and expanded through the addition of the Northwest Accreditation Commission (NWAC) in 2012.

All five organizations at the Cutshaw Avenue building share a mutual goal of improving the education of Virginia's youth, and look forward to benefiting each other with a variety of training and support resources designed to build leadership capacity in Virginia schools.