My Personal  Reflection on Part 2 of your assignment (EDLD 5342 SU3003 Cohort 5 WG5) 4-19-12

My personal top five were as follows: 1.November - Create Budget Development Plan, 2. Between February14-25 - Distribute budget preparation documents to campuses and central offices and conduct budget workshops for both campus administrators and central office administrators, 3. May 12 - Board of Trustees Business Briefing Preliminary Budget Review and Revenue Projections, 4. June 23- Board of Trustees Meeting Tax Rate Public Hearing and Adopt New Budget, 5. August 25 - Board of Trustees Meeting Adopt Tax Rate. (Retrieved from the internet April 19 http://learn-n-lead.wikispaces.com.) These five for me are where the rubber hits the road. You have to create a plan, allow input by all stakeholders, review the plan and make projections, have a public hearing and adopt a new budget and then the tax rate determines actual local funds available. As we all know all of the budget development calendar items are very important to the whole goal-driven budget process. I have enjoyed the wiki group collaboration and learning from other cohort members. Our group’s consensus of our top five list of events and dates will be posted before Sunday night April 22 by our fearless leader, Lorissa on the wiki discussion board. 

Defining and Describing a Goal Driven Budget

EDLD 5342 Week Two Assignment, Part 1 – Defining and Describing a Goal Driven Budget

A goal driven budget is making the connection between policies, major decisions, instructional programs and services, and the allocation of funds to support them. It is the establishment of goals followed by allocating the resources to implement the goals. Goals that are based on the vision and mission of the school should drive the development of the school budget.

As Dr. Nicks stated in the lecture this week, “the purpose of a goal driven budget is to assist in the attainment of a shared vision for the district and each campus”. He also stated that we should “think about the budgeting process as part of the total planning process of the school district” (EDLD 5342 Week Two lecture template p 1).

A goal driven budget process should exist in every district in the state. A large portion of each district’s budget is fixed costs (i.e. salaries, fuel, electricity, maintenance, transportation). With this in mind it makes it more difficult to proportion a large amount of funding to meet the goals of the district. A goal driven budget is simply having a budget that reflects and funds the vision and goals of the school district. In my district the district improvement plan does not have the funds listed on it, but when you look at the budget sheets and the plan side by side you can see the direct correlation of the planning process. When budgets are not just balance sheets but are utilized as a spending plan and district improvement plans are not just written paper only but used to implement the vision and mission to improve teaching and learning credibility is established and realized for all learners. 

EDLD 5342 SU 3003 Cohort 5 Wiki 5

As of 4-16-12 our EDLD 5342 SU3003 Cohort 5 Wiki Group 5 consist of the following:


Lorissa Bailey  lbailey@lamar.edu  http://lorissabailey.blogspot.com/ http://learn-n-lead.wikispaces.com/


Marie Adams madams5@lamar.edu http://mariedadams.blogspot.com/ http://marieadams.wikispaces.com/


Jody Kotys jkotys@lamar.edu http://jody-kotys.blogspot.com/ http://jody-kotys.wikispaces.com/


Brenda Avance bhavance@lamar.edu http://bhavance.blogspot.com/2012/04/edld-5342-school-finance.html http://brendaavance.wikispaces.com/ 214-402-1583 cell (text or call)


As a group, the Wiki Group 5 will continue to use Lorissa's Wiki http://learn-n-lead.wikispaces.com/home as our collaboration point in the assignment pages she created for our group use. Feel free to check it out and comment on any of our blogs and wikis above. Happy collaborating for learning school finance!!!!

EDLD 5342 School Finance

The Lamar University EDLD 5342 School Finance Cohort 5 course began April 9 and we are off and running. This will be jam packed full of new information for me and I am excited about the learning process it will involve. Right in time for this course the GISD Board Meeting Work Session was held April 10 with an update on the 2012-2013 Budget, review of the January and February 2012 Financial statements and Tax Reports. This was a great board meeting to attend to geared up for this course.

 http://www.texasisd.com/. This is a great website for Cohort 5 LU Superintendent Certification Program for information regarding superintendent information that was given to us in the resources of the EDLD 5396 syllabus.  The letter titled Duty of Superintendents and Directors to Report Educator Misconduct Purpose talks about the superintendent's responsibility to report misconduct  which was a question on our midterm. Check it out! 

I am about to start my last week of my second class in my superintendent certification program. The time is flying by. I have a great group of peers in the Cohort 5 class that I have learned from their postings on our discussion board. My internship is going well thanks to the Garland ISD leadership and all their cooperation and help. Happy schooling!!

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