by Raymund F. Camacho and Samuel Farrales
It has been the annual practice of the SDO Olongapo City to determine the level of practice among schools through School Based Management Validation. School-based management (SBM) is a strategy to improve education by transferring significant decision-making authority from state and district offices to individual schools. It also desires to improve education by transferring significant decision-making authority from state and district offices to individual schools.
For the School Year 2019-2020, 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.
There are four principles which serve as basis in validation the schools SBM Level of Practice and they are: Leadership and Governance , Curriculum and Learning, 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.
