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Kennelly, Catherine A. – School Business Affairs, 1984
Hartford school administrators converted from a program budget to a school-based budget in one year. (MLF)
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Budgeting, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Implementation
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Fasih, Tazeen; Barrera, Felipe; Garcia-Moreno, Vicente A.; Bentaouet-Kattan, Raja; Baksh, Shaista; Wickramasekera, Inosha – World Bank Publications, 2007
School-based management (SBM) has become a very popular movement over the past decade. The World Bank Education Team's SBM work program emerged out of a need to define the concept more clearly, review the evidence, support impact assessments in various countries, and provide some initial feedback to teams preparing education projects. During the…
Descriptors: School Based Management, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Fitch, Margaret E.; Malcom, Paul J. – 1992
Written to help educators maximize student learning, this publication outlines a process for designing and implementing an improvement and restructuring plan based on knowledge acquisition, needs assessment, indepth planning, and development of commitment to change. Research has identified 14 conditions for successful schools: high attendance,…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Program Evaluation
Bailey, William J. – 1991
Incorporating school-site management into the nation's educational systems will demand wholesale changes involving the very structure and organization of schools. Aimed at practitioners desiring to implement school-based management (SBM), this book is organized into chapters designed to enhance the sequential phases of application. Chapter 1…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Principles, Change Strategies, Collegiality
Barlosky, Martin; Lawton, Stephen – 1995
This learning module/handbook explains the rationale behind school-based budgeting (SBB)--the transfer of authority and responsibility for allocating a portion of school operating funds from the central school district to individual schools--and suggests practical implementation strategies. According to part I, SBB comes in many forms. Each school…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Golarz, Raymond J.; Golarz, Marion J. – 1995
This book provides the educational practitioner and community participants with the practical knowledge needed to follow a participatory governance process within an existing bureaucracy. Chapter 1 presents the principles of participatory governance and identifies various mind-sets that have developed over many decades of traditional education.…
Descriptors: Democracy, Democratic Values, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Reynolds, Larry J. – 1997
Many school districts and schools find that they have an incomplete understanding of site-based management (SBM). This guidebook provides a systemwide approach to site-based management, using SBM as a strategy for school improvement and increased student success rather than for managing the status quo. It identifies nine essential perspectives and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Interprofessional Relationship, Leadership
Sielke, Catherine C. – School Business Affairs, 1997
Explores where in the school-budgeting process decentralized decision making could be used. People at the building site should be evaluating the programs and making decisions about their effectiveness and continued funding. (MLF)
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Central Office Administrators, Decentralization
Reynolds, Larry J. – 1993
Although site-based management is very popular, it is not always well understood or implemented. Seeking a middle ground between leadership theory and practice, this practical guidebook provides a systemwide approach to site-based management as a school improvement strategy; integrates a student-oriented, strategic-planning process; identifies 9…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Central Office Administrators, Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Dahir, Carol A.; Sheldon, Carolyn B.; Valiga, Michael J. – 1998
This publication offers school counselors and school staff a 5-phase planning model for implementing national standards for school counseling programs. The process involves the examination of current school counseling programs; identification of student needs; and selection of activities, strategies, and services to ensure that students achieve…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Career Guidance, Competence
North Carolina State Board of Education, Raleigh. – 1996
The 1996 session of the North Carolina General Assembly enacted legislation, The School-Based Management and Accountability Program (the ABCs plan), an educational reform initiative designed to improve student performance. The accountability model for the public schools in kindergarten through eighth grade is designed to provide focus on the basic…
Descriptors: Accountability, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Educational Assessment
Thornton, Shirley A.; Spiesberger, Bonnie – 1994
This manual is designed to assist California school personnel to respond to the increasing diversity in student populations, with a change process based on principles of shared leadership through a decentralized site-based management method. The organization change model utilized by the pilot schools is the California Local Education Reform…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Quality
Villarreal, Abelardo – IDRA Newsletter, 1993
This article provides school council members in Texas public schools engaged in site-based decision-making (SBDM) with information about creating successful preschool programs for language minority children (LMC). It is intended to help the councils make decisions as to how they can: (1) ensure that language minority children have access equal to…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Decision Making, Educational Attitudes, English (Second Language)
Charles, Gregory Stewart; Karr-Kidwell, PJ – 1995
This paper reviews research on principals' and teachers' roles in site-based decision making (SBDM). Research examining teacher participation in SBDM is reviewed, finding that higher quality teaching behaviors and higher student academic attainment resulted from teacher participation. The review focuses on steps in implementing SBDM, means for…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines