Over the last few weeks I’ve been continuing to exploring the concept of school based management.
Some authorities in Scotland have implemented the concept of Learning Communities based around the secondary school and the local primary schools, Glasgow runs New Learning Communities, Falkirk has Integrated learning communities and South Lanarkshire has Learning Communities.
Each of these schemes has very [...]
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I’ve been carrying out some further research into school-based management and came across the Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989 It’s interesting to read this with a different eye nearly 20 years on from when it first came into being.
When the concept was first mooted it was driven by a Conservative Government’s agenda to break [...]
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One of the interesting sessions I attended last week concerned the provision of care services. Seamus Breen kicked off by asking everbody a key question about the type of care they would like when they were old. It turned out that no-one in the audience wanted to be looked after in a home - we all preferred [...]
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Benketaro
What follows will be a first cut at trying to establish a working rationale for school-based management.
The Principles of School Based Management
School- Based Management is based upon the following assumptions.
1. The school is the most effective unit of change within the educational system and is best placed to sustain improvements over time.
2. Those who work directly with [...]
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Dazzie D
Scotland has had Devolved School Management (DSM) since 1996. The scheme had four principles:
1 To improve the quality of decision-making by allowing schools greater flexibility in deciding spending priorities at the local level.
2 To allow schools to respond quickly to needs, changes and priorities at local level.
3 To ensure resources were used more efficiently and [...]
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Posted in Children's Services, Conferences, Culture change, Ideas, OUtcome agreements, Parental Involvement, Partnerships, Planning, Public Services, Strategic, Uncategorized, Using data, school based management on May 15th, 2008 4 Comments »
I’m attending the Association of Directors of Social Work conference in Crieff.
One the key themes emerging is that of personalisation of services to users. The social work field is light years ahead of education in terms of using a mixed economy system for delivering services, by commissioning others from the private and voluntary sector to [...]
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