School Board And SBDM Reflection

School Board and SBDM Reflection Earlier in the semester, I attended a school based decision making council (SBDM) meeting at Murray Middle school on September 8, 2015. There were seven total board members present. The principal, Lou Carter, was in charge of the council. The council was composed of teachers, office workers, and the principal. Most of the decisions made were managerial; however, a few were instructional. The council set goals for their GAP targets. These included the reduction of the amount of students who were receiving novice on standardized testing. They talked about having three opportunities to nominate a student of the week and worked on picking the first student. They looked at last year’s scores and saw that they had very high scores in accommodating the arts in their school. The council was working on the budget and items of expenditures such as projector bulbs were added to the list. Another item added was printer ink from a new company who had a lower price for schools. The budget was accepted by all of the council members. At the end of the meeting, each council member was in charge of forming a committee for the school for different grade levels that involved at least one member, one parent, and two teachers from that grade level to be representatives. …show more content…
They both had budgets to approve and had to find the cheapest routes for various items. Both had legal issues that they had to attend to. One of the differences between the two meetings was that the SBDM council was more personally involved in the school and worried about some instructional issues. They also only had to worry about their one school, Murray Middle. The school board was more concerned with managerial issues and made decisions for the school system as a whole. Both meetings were concerned about their schools and were working hard to improve various things to better the system for their