Introduction
There have been different activities that have been taking place in this school. The different actions have sparked different results over time. Some of these results were intended and planned for while for other actions, the results have been devastating and this requires immediate, carefully planned action to stop these results that are not wanted. As the principle of the school, there are policies that I should implement so that the school sees itself to a better place both financially as well as academically. Apart from the implementation of the policies, as the principle I also have to ensure that all the different students in the school enjoy equal treatment and privileges. This is achievable through the formulation of a full comprehensive plan that will see these plans materialize.
Background of school
The school is referred to as Briargate Elementary School. This school is one of the seventy two campuses of the Fort Bend Independent School District. This school has a good history of passing having been opened in 1977. The school serves an integrated system of schools. This is because the school serves students from all platforms. Most of the students who dominate the larger numbers are African American students as well as those that hail from the low income families. Over the years, the number of students being served by the school has significantly reduced. The highest composition of the school consists of the African American students while the Anglo students come after the African American.
Even though the school has a high reputation, there are some problems that are seen throughout the school that hinder the school from achieving its full potential. There is an increasing dropout rate which is a problem both to the society and the school. There are also other problems that are affecting the school such as the decrease in number of students that attend the school. For instance, the number has dropped by 10%from its original number. This is a problem that needs to be taken care of.
Apart from the different problems that are experienced in the school, there are other human resource problems and other structural problems that are seen in the school. The indifference between the teachers also is a problem to the school since the school needs to exhibit a balanced system where they can implement the best of all age differences. There have been weaknesses in the several subjects in the school such as mathematics has had a school-wide weakness.
There are gaps that are seen between the marks that are achieved and the marks that have been projected by the school. The difference is attributed to many changes in the school and other structural differences. The difference between the marks is caused by the low attention given to better teaching methods that should be implemented by the school. The low performance by the students in the African American and the Economically Disadvantaged student groups did not meet the desired level of performance and thus the gap was created. By increasing the performance of these student groups would make sure that the students are able to close down the gap and this will enable the school record a better performance.
What is the discrepancy?
Implementing this work plan lacks compatibility coming from the community and designed strategy. First, it is impossible to convince parent of the existing financial cost and the designed financial cost. The ramification of the designed financial cost might lead to parent not coming to an agreeable position with the project designer. This is because they might complain that the designed curriculum is expensive to implement.
What are some of the causes of the discrepancy?
Misunderstanding of the proposed budget- parents and financial aid sponsors might fight the newly proposed budget unrealistic.
Expected stakeholders might disassociate with the proposed plan terming too expensive to manage for more than one year since the funding and donations will be limited started in the second year.
Will your plan constitute a major change or one with little disruption?
However, this proposed plan should be given a chance with the major changes expected to come from it. It is therefore important to understand that the development plan is aimed towards students achieving good academic achievements. The designed program will provide academic experts and student with a completely new learning program that will provide teachers time and guidance on how schools and other learning institutions should be managed. Additionally, this proposed plan is designed to help learning institution to plan for the long term based issues like facility improvement and curriculum restructuring in order to accommodate any changes that may be discovered after implementation. In short, the proposed plan is opened to suggestion and re-designing.
What is the level of dissatisfaction of the stakeholders regarding current conditions?
According to the proposed budget and plan, there are stakeholders who have shown their full commitment in support of the developed curriculum plan. That is through this plan description, financial aiders have shown their support sighting that the plan will help reduce school dependence on donor to keep the schools running and thus if it is implemented learning institution will learn how to manage their institution from the little amount their make without adding extra fee to student. On the other hand, the target beneficiary has shown dissatisfaction with the proposed plan stating that the plan is expensive to manage since parents will be forced to pay an extra amount to cater the implementation of this project in learning institutions.
Short-term costs
Improve on the number of enrollments in each school
Long-term costs
Reduce the performance gap by ensuring all students have excellent performance
What are the consequences of the change?
If the proposed plan is implemented, there will improve transparency in the way education is managed in public learning institution. This is because the plan is the idea is to improve on the quality of education offered by ensuring that the curriculum main role is to improve on the student’s achievement and progress from one stage to another. Additionally, it is expected that through this curriculum the there will be a closed gap in the performance of students and create positive preparedness for tertiary education.
What is the degree of difficulty of making the change?
The expected changes may fail to occur if some of the stakeholders fail to cooperate by not showing their support to the proposed plan. This will happen up to the level of implementing since opposing parties will be forced to find other channels of rejected the proposed plan.
What actions will you take to build consensus?
Public education is important in bringing all stakeholders to an agreement. This is by ensuring all members of the public are educated on the importance of the proposed plan in the academic achievement students. In addition, by doing this, it is my hope that the public will get to understand that the proposed plan is aimed towards benefits the student and not any other party.
How will you sustain your change initiative?
Putting up seminar in school to sensitize the public on the importance of adopting revised curriculum in order to avoid the discrepancies that have been there in the past when offering education will be important in convincing the opposing powers.
How will you ensure that you are addressing the needs of all students? What steps will you take?
