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David Ertl is an AdvancED Minnesota Excellence in Education Award honoree, for his unparalleled leadership in promoting and advancing excellence in education. Ertl is an outstanding educator who has made remarkable contributions to our state, our students and to the advancement of quality accreditation nationwide. He is dedicated to making positive contributions as an educational leader through his progressive, innovative and responsive career as a principal, and through service on state and national levels focused toward continuous, meaningful improvement processes for schools.

Ertl serves on the AdvancED NCA CASI State Council and the AdvancED National Commission.

In Chisago Lakes, as high school principal, his school has become a state model for the use of Response to Intervention processes at the secondary level.

Ertl is an active member of the Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals, and the National Association of Secondary School Principals. He has continuously served as a board member of the Community Partnership with Youth and Families since 1994. He served on the NCA CASI Board of Directors from 2004 - 2006, and he has been a Minnesota AdvancED State Committee Member since 2003. His leadership in AdvancED has led to many successful innovations in state programming, and he has generously served as Chair of Quality Review Teams every year. He serves on the AdvancED Commission on Accreditation, and is a well respected contributor to the revision and continuous improvement of the agency's standards and processes.

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