How will you identify candidates from diverse groups to serve as stakeholders? How will you prepare all members to understand their role and responsibilities as group members? Why should teachers comprise half or more of the members of the budget development group? How will you collect and organize data for the group to help them make decisions?

Sorenson-Goldsmith Integrated Budget Mode

In this journal submission, you will examine each component in the Sorenson-Goldsmith Integrated Budget Model and explain how you will incorporate each component in the process as a school administrator.

Make sure you address the following questions in your response:

Stakeholders: How will you identify candidates from diverse groups to serve as stakeholders? How will you prepare all members to understand their role and responsibilities as group members?

Stakeholder Selection: Why should teachers comprise half or more of the members of the budget development group?

Data Gathering: How will you collect and organize data for the group to help them make decisions?

Data Analysis: What steps should the leader take to help the group analyze the data to identify legitimate areas of need?

Needs Prioritization: How can the school leader help the budget development group prioritize need and reach consensus?

Goal Setting: What makes a good goal and how can goals unify effort?

Performance Objectives: Why does the group need to develop performance objectives and how are performance objectives used?

Action Plan: What are the characteristics of an effective action plan?

Reflect: What is the principal’s role in this process? What skills does the principal need to make this process successful? As a principal, how will you evaluate success? What will you do if the group makes recommendations that do not align with campus instructional program? What will you do if the group cannot reach consensus? How will you course correct if you are going off track?