EDLD 5333 - Site Based Decision Making

I wasn’t able to interview the campus principal so I interviewed a person at the DE Department of Education and a person on the school leadership team.  Because I this I was able to get a broader perspective of how things work throughout the state as well as the perspective of the individual school. While I can’t say that anything has surprised me I can say that I learned how interconnected RTTT is with the actions of schools and districts including things like RTI and law along with the processes of SBDMs.  It seems that throughout the state people who serve on the SBDMs have been chosen in much the same way as at my school.  Although, I am hopeful that other teachers have more input in other schools.  However, at my school the person who serves on the committee that I interviewed does feel that her voice is heard.  So at least on that level teachers’ voices are being heard.  Statewide there are members of the outside community that also serve on the SBDMs but I don’t believe that is so in our school committee.   Most of the information does align with what I have learned in this program throughout all of the courses that I have taken.  The one thing that does not is the members of the SBDMs.  There should be a broader perspective on the SBDM committees and I like Ms. Richardson’s view of rotating members to serve the community at large and gain a broader perspective of the school. (Richardson, 2005) By doing that the committee will have fresh views when things might become stagnant. Richardson, M. (2005). Consensus leadership. Principal Leadership, 6(4), 32-35.