District Budgeting Processes

The current district I work in has an extensive budgeting process focused on site-based budgeting. As each school has a variety of programs and support services for the learners they serve, schools can be given increased autonomies through SBB to make decisions about the services and programs they offer to best meet the needs of their learners.
(SBB). "The key to a successful SBB process is to let staff closest to the instructional setting set priorities and allocate funds" (Shilling & Tomal, 2013, p.49). Leveraging SBB in the district allows school leaders to determine how their specific sites need to use the funds to provide necessary services for their learners. The SBB designations to each school are based on student enrollment numbers for each school and a preset amount is provided for each student attending a school.

Adequacy, Equity & Equality in Education

Addressing these three terms in education can often be extremely difficult due to the many different components involved in developing and sustaining successful learning environments and institutions. Adequacy can be viewed in terms of "what resources are adequate to make [individual competency] a possibility for every child?" (Shilling & Tomal, 2013, p.4). Considering this definition of adequacy, it can be determined that each and every school has a right to be provided necessary resources which can promote and provide educational opportunities for every learner. The primary obstacle then becomes what is considered "adequate" for each school and what is considered adequate for learners in those schools? 

Administrative Blogging For Communication

Working towards administrative licensure in educational leadership has provided me the opportunity to reflect on how school leaders can use blogging as a communication tool for their school communities. I've had a fairly broad experience with blogging over the past few years in a variety of contexts and am looking forward to spending more time back on my own blog. Finding the time to blog can be challenging given the amount of roles and responsibilities educators need to maintain on a daily basis. One of the most important components of successful blogging is finding a consistent time frame in which to construct and share thinking and learning regularly.