Site Based School Management and Team Communication

Good communication skills are important to thethe meetings. Newsletters are an easy way to keep
success of a school site-based management council.others informed. Many times meeting agendas and/or
Decision making is another key component. In order forminutes can be adapted into a simple newsletter
a school site council to move forward, decisions mustformat for those who did not attend the meeting to
be made. This can only be done throughread.A more straightforward, second method of
communication.Site-based management teamcommunication is posting minutes and reports. These
members need to understand their role. Teampostings can be displayed on bulletin boards in various
members are representatives for their particular group.areas around the school. The documents keep others
As a representative, team members must keep theirinformed and at the same time validate the work being
constituents (stakeholders) informed throughout thedone.A third method of communicating takes time to
meeting process. Communication is an essentialimplement, however it can give the committee
ingredient to success. There are five popular methodsadditional information. At the end of each site based
of communicating that can be used in site-basedmanagement meeting, several minutes are given to
management team meetings. These methods will bereview what was accomplished. Members hold a short
discussed further.The first method is sendingdiscussion and select topics that they want to present
newsletters to teachers and parents informing themback to their representative groups. At the same time,
about the site-based management activities. Thoseteam members share feedback given by constituents
stakeholders, outside the site-based managementfrom the previous meeting.
committee, need to know what is taking place during