School Improvement Plan
Philosophy / Aims
& Role
Simon Sinek’s Start With Why.
visionary companies focus on their “why.” According to
Sinek, great organizations begin with their “why,”
then align their “how” and “what” to the efforts and
initiatives necessary to align with the identified “why.”
schools gain the systematic support for their “why”
through building their “how” and “what.”
Why? The Reason
In a school setting,it
exhibits in the form of a
why an organization exists
vision or purpose
is a purpose or belief that
statement, or some sort of
drives its internal
symbol that represents the
motivation.
ideological objectives of the
organization.
Philosophy of SIP
A clear, unique, well-aligned, active and living statement of philosophy, vision, mission,
goal and objectives
2. A philosophy that expresses the school community’s shared values and beliefs about
education and student learning
3. School goals and objectives that are supportive of the educational system process and
are consistent with national and global development goals
A system process involving the participation of various stakeholders for reviewing and
revising when appropriate the philosophy, vision, mission, goals and objectives
Why SIP?
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A system for horizontal a point where we feel like we are It is natural to ask what schools or
alignment between standards, spinning our wheels, constantly organizations can specifically do to
competencies, assessment, trying to adapt to new changes or avoid or counteract these tendencies,
finding our community beginning to which can lead to a failure to obtain
instruction and resources in all question the needs and effectiveness goals, evolve, or promote the school
learning units of existing initiatives and changes. It purpose. We know that, as leaders, it
is inevitable that strong but elastic is critical to create environments
organizations will succeed at meeting where deliberate planning meets
the needs of stakeholders, while visionary progress. However, where
others will either fail to ever do we even begin in this process?
actualize their efforts or never reach Isn’t this the purpose of the school
a level of internal sustainability to improvement Plan?
avoid becoming stagnant.
How?
Organizations accomplish Some create social contracts, the agreed-upon acts or actions “how” is incorporated with four
their “how” in many ways. while others create elaborate each individual within the guiding principles
trainings and professional organization engages in
developments. regularly
What ?
Be Decisive and Take Risks—Make
Empower and Excite—Sustainable decisions based on facts, listen to all
Develop Communication and
Be Accountable to Each organizations build culture and stakeholders, and take action based
Trust—Build strong teams and
Other—Cultivate and maintain community. This means a culture upon what is best for students.
accountability through clear and
leadership with colleagues, where everyone acts confidently, Decisiveness and risk-taking are
consistent communication to all
students, and the school community. demonstrates adaptability, and paramount to the success of an
stakeholders of school community.
promotes leadership. organization and failure is a process
for learning.
Four Models of SIP
A grassroots movement is one that uses the
people in a given district, region or community
THE GRASSROOTS SITE-BASED as the basis for a political or economic
REFORM MODEL movement. Grassroots movements and
organizations use collective action from the
local level to implement change at the local,
regional, national, or international levels.
Grass Root Model was proposed by Hilda Taba
in her book Curriculum Development ; Theory
and Practice in 1962. The main feature of her
model is to include the needs of students at the
grassroots level in the curriculum and bring it
to the core.
