School-Based Management (SBM)

School-based management (SBM) is a strategy to improve education by transferring significant decision-making authority from state and district offices to individual schools. SBM provides principals, teachers, students, and parents greater control over the education process by giving them responsibility for decisions about the budget, personnel, and the curriculum. Through the involvement of teachers, parents, and other community members in these key decisions, SBM can create more effective learning environments for children.

There are four principles which serve as basis in validation the schools SBM Level of Practice and they are: Leadership and Governance, Curriculum and Instruction, Accountability and Continuous Improvement, and Management of Resources. Primarily the objectives of SBM are: Empower the school heads to lead their teachers and students through reforms which lead to higher learning outcome; Bring resources, including funds down to the control of school to spur change in line with decentralization; Strengthen partnership with communities to invest time, money and effort in making the school a better place to learn; and Integrate school management and instructional reformation for school effectiveness.

This on-going  activity attempts to determine how far the schools have improved and sustained their existing level of practice through presentation of acceptable means of verification (MOVs) manifested through actual or tangible evidences, digital or on-line proofs and other means which the validation team considers appropriate.