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homepage of the Site-Based Management Strategy Team Providence School Department Strategic Plan "Designing the Future Together"

Our Charter:

To implement the site-based management strategy of the Providence School Department by generating Action Items that improve student performance.

"We will develop ways to address the issue of site-based management."
-- Providence School Department Draft Strategic Plan, Strategy 9.

"In the adoption of any activity, we will always attempt to enhance site-based decision-making."
-- Providence School Department Draft Strategic Plan, Parameters.

Approach

Utilize the talents of a volunteer team (parents, teachers, administrators, students) to identify best practices and lessons learned, formulate a realistic list of action items, and present findings in a user-friendly format (e.g. video, website) that will enhance understanding and successful implementation.

Communications

• Weekly meetings
• Email
• FAX
• Telephone clusters
• Action Log
• Meeting minutes
• Electronic file listing
• Team roster

Team Consensus

The action items will be the result of team consensus, using The Cambridge Group Action Plans Process.

Operating Process

• Minutes, documentation
• Consensus process
• Email operations
• Meeting dates, times, locations
• Charter understanding

Our Meetings

All meetings are in School Board Room C, start at 5:30 pm, and end at 7:30 pm unless otherwise noted.

Previous Meetings

• Wednesday, March 24, 1999 at 6:00 pm. [click for MINUTES]
• Wednesday, March 31, 1999 at 5:30 pm for newcomers and 6:00 pm for returnees. [MINUTES]
• Wednesday, April 7, 1999 at 5:30 pm to 8:00 (?) pm. [MINUTES]
• Monday, April 12, 1999, School Department Cafeteria (Basement). [MINUTES] . [Charts_1_&_2] . [Charts_3_&_4]
• Monday, April 26, 1999, School Department Cafeteria (Basement). [AGENDA] . [MINUTES]
• Monday, May 3, 1999, School Department Cafeteria (Basement). [AGENDA] . [MINUTES]
• Monday, May 10, 1999 CANCELLED
• Tuesday, May 11, 1999 at 5:25 pm to 8:30 pm. [MINUTES]
• Monday, May 17, 1999
• Tuesday, May 18. 1999 [MINUTES]
• Monday, May 24, 1999, School Dept. 2nd Floor Conference Room
• Wednesday, May 26, 1999 Video at Hope High School studio, 5:30 pm.
• Tuesday, June 8, 1999 at 9:00 am. Presentation to Strategic Plan Committee. CANCELLED
• Friday, July 16, 1999 at 1:30 pm, School Board Room B. Planning for presentation to Strategic Plan Committee

Next Meeting

• Wednesday, July 21, 1999 at 9:00 to 9:45 am (Please be early) at the Rhode Island College Faculty Center, South Dining Area. Presentation to Strategic Plan Committee

Upcoming Meetings

Our Resources

E-mail List

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Web Links

LINK	SUGGESTED BY
"The Who, What, and Why of Site-Based Management" by Jane L. David, in Vol. 53, No. 5, the December 1995/January 1996 issue of _Educational_Leadership_, journal of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development	Barbara Ashby
Overview: What It Takes to Make It Work by Ron Brandt, ibid.  Points to some key sbm issues.	Tom Arrison
Report to the Providence School Board, March 9, 1998, by the Union/School Board Site Based Management Technical Support Committee (U/BSBMTSC), Vidal Pérez, Chair	Greg Enos
Our Working Definition of Site-Based Management, by Tom Bacon, and amended by	The Team
Teachers Contract -- Appendix W -- Site Based Management establishes current district SBM policy and practice	Tom Arrison
Report of the PROBE Commission -- Chapter 5, Recommendation 21 -- School-Based Management
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory  Pathways . Governance . Site-Based Management	Barbara Ashby
National Network of Regional Educational Laboratories	Tom Arrison
Our own region's  at Brown
Search any subject at all 10 regional labs via the  at Brown	Jon Howard
The 's page on SBM in Providence explains Vidal Pérez's role briefly
What is SBM? Overview from the Northwest Regional Lab
Bibliography on SBM from
St. Paul, Minnesota's SBM experience in one page
OATS: Outcomes Assessments and Teaching Strategies, Providence's Framework for Teaching and Learning. [Homepage] . [Page 2] . [Executive Summary including SBM component]	Tom Arrison
Ed Week Magazine homepage Search the Ed Week Archives	Fran Gorman
Selected ERIC Abstracts on School/Site-Based Management Note: The ASCD website no longer has this document: (http://www.ascd.org/services/eric/sbm.html) Try this instead: Search the ERIC database using AskERIC	Barbara Ashby
"Who Runs the Schools: The Principal's View" and  "Who Runs the Schools: The Teacher's View" by Judith Anderson,  Office of Educational Research and Improvement of the U.S. Dept. of Education	Lou Schmitt
Pathways . Leadership . "Leading and Managing Change and Improvement"
"School Leadership: A Profile Document" by V. Svede, D. Jeudy-Hugo, and P. Begley, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
"School-Based Management and Student Performance" by David Peterson, ERIC Digest, Number 62, ED336845 Oct 91	Tom Bacon
Yale Child Study Center School Development Program ("Comer Schools")	Tom Arrison
School-Based Management Page at EdWeek	Fran Gorman
Site-Based Teams: At the Seat of Power from the October 1995 issue of School Planning & Management Magazine

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