Meetings for School-Based Decision Making

Keen J. Babbage

doi:10.5771/9781461663607

Summary

Have you ever left a meeting feeling that nothing had actually been accomplished? This book provides you with the keys to running a successful and efficient meeting. Babbage begins with a section on how to prepare effectively for a meeting, methods for running a concise meeting, and finishes with how to implement the key decisions made during the meeting. He also includes a section on how to maintain everyone's involvement, cooperation, and interest throughout the meeting.

Search publication

Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 1996
ISBN-Print: 978-1-56676-450-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-6360-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 109
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Acknowledgements No access
3. Introduction No access
1. Policy Proposals No access
2. School Board Decision No access
3. Managerial Democracy No access
1. Picturing the Typical Meeting No access
2. One More Meeting? No access
3. Typical Meetings No access
4. Jurisdiction No access
1. Incremental Improvement No access
2. Communication that Reaches Out No access
3. To do List No access
4. A Lesson from Kentucky No access
1. Preparation No access
2. Information No access
3. Committees No access
4. Case Study #1 No access
5. Preparation—Who does what, when, how No access
6. The Decision Agenda No access
7. School Purpose No access
8. Decisions No access
1. Case Study #2 No access
2. Case Study #2, Revised No access
1. Time Management No access
2. Nobody Volunteers to Keep Minutes of the Meeting No access
3. People Make Critical Comments about Other People No access
4. Participation in Voting No access
5. Do i Vote my Opinion or my Constituents' Opinion? No access
6. I'm a Teacher, I'm not the Person to Run the School No access
7. I don't Like you, so I' ll Vote Against your Idea No access
8. I'm the Principal, and I'm Still in Charge No access
9. I Never Hear from my Constituents No access
10. We Make Decisions, but they don't Get Carried Out No access
11. The Parents Only Know what their Children Tell them No access
12. We Talk and Talk, but Get Nowhere No access
13. We don't have Time for these Meetings No access
14. People don't Like the Decision we Made No access
15. Should we Let Students Attend these Meetings? No access
1. A Successful School No access
2. SBDM and Student Learning No access
3. SBDM and Teacher Performance No access
4. SBDM and Parent Participation in School No access
5. SBDM and Community Involvement No access
6. SBDM—The Buck Stops with me No access
Appendix A: Ready, Set, Go: A Checklist for Introducing SBDM No access Pages 91 - 98
Appendix B: Questions and Answers No access Pages 99 - 106
Index No access Pages 107 - 108
Biography No access Pages 109 - 109