The campus‐level team shall be known as the Jess Harben Site‐Based Decision-Making Team.
The purpose of the Jess Harben Site‐Based Decision‐Making Team is to improve the level of student achievement for all students at Jess Harben Elementary School.
The Jess Harben SBDM team must have a core group of 15 members.
The CORE group of fifteen members shall be established annually, no later than Labor Day of each school year, and will consist of:
The Principal shall furnish an up‐to‐date list of names and addresses of all members on the Site‐Based Decision-Making Team to the Superintendent or designee no later than 15 working days after Labor Day.
When team members are added or replaced during the school year, the Principal is responsible within 15 working days for sending to the Superintendent or designee an updated list with the names and addresses of new members.
The predominant parent group supervises the election of parent representatives.
Parents are self nominated and then voted upon
The election of teacher representatives of the campus‐based professional staff member and the district‐level professional staff member is supervised by the Principal and members of the Site‐Based Decision-Making Team. Teachers vote for teachers, campus-based professional staff members vote for the campus‐based professional staff representative and all professional staff vote for the district‐level professional staff member. The Site‐Based Decision-Making Team shall elect the Site‐Based Decision-Making Team representative among the Site‐Based Decision-Making Team faculty member representatives.
Teaching staff self nominates and the staff votes on
In order to provide consistency, the terms are 2 years for parents and staff. For community members, the term is 3 years.
Members must attend two meetings per year.
A vacancy in an elected position must be filled by-election. A vacancy in a selected position is filled by selecting the remaining members of the team
Standing committees, subcommittees, special committees, or task forces may be established or abolished as necessary to examine issues in-depth and develop recommendations to bring to the Site‐Based Decision-Making Team. The Principal shall co-chair all committees and subcommittees.
At least four meetings per year outside of the school day are required by policy. The regular meetings of the team shall be held via Zoom on a day selected by the Chair.
Special meetings may be called with 5 days’ notice.
The meeting agenda is created by the chair and emailed to the members 5 days prior to the meeting. If members have items of concern they communicate with the principal prior to the meeting to be added to the agenda.
Through our weekly newsletters the outcomes of meetings will be described
A public meeting will be held once a year, after receiving the annual campus rating from the Texas Education Agency, to discuss the performance of the campus and the campus performance objectives. The Site‐Based Decision-Making committee is the representative body through which the faculty may bring forth questions, concerns, and recommendations for the Site‐Based Decision-Making Team to consider for the benefit of the school.
The Principal is to consult regularly and receive input from the team in planning, budgeting, curriculum, school organization, staffing patterns, and staff development. The Site‐Based Decision-Making Team must approve the staff development portions of the Campus Improvement Plan (CIP).
The Principal is responsible and accountable for all decisions made at the campus level. The Principal’s responsibility is to ensure that all decisions comply with local and state policy. The Site‐Based Decision-Making Team’s role is advisory, and its input into decision-making is intended to improve the quality of decisions made by the Principal.
In order to determine approval for agenda items the SBDM will reach a consensus.
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