Reflection #12: School-based management (SBM)

Student: STEVEN MELVIN II V. DELANTE

Ph.D. Educational Management

Subject: DEM 321

AY: 2022-2023

School-based management (SBM) is a strategy and a way to improve the quality

education by transferring significant decision-making authority from state and district offices

to individual schools. SBM provides principals, teachers, students, parents, and other

members of the institution greater control over the education process by giving them

responsibility for decisions about the budget, personnel, and curriculum. Through the

involvement of teachers, parents, and community members in these important decisions,

SBM can create more effective learning environments for children.

I learned that School-based Management (SBM) is the decentralization of the school-

making authority from central, regional and division levels to the individual schools, with the

intention of bringing together the school heads, teachers, students as well as parents, the

local government units, and the community at large about improved learning outcomes

through effective schools. The underlying principle of SBM is that the stakeholders of an

educational institution must enable and empowered to attain the desired educational
outcomes. The reason behind this is that people directly involved in the school operations

are the ones who know directly the problems of the school because they are much

immersed in the school, thus they are also the best persons to promulgate possible and

practical solutions. Two of the legal bases of SBM are: RA 7160 (The local Government

Code of the Philippines) which established the Local School Board (LSB) in every Province,

City or Municipality and RA 9155 (Governance of Basic Education Act of 2001) which

mandates the promotion of the principle of shared governance. ACCESs (A child and

community-centered Education system) stated the clarification of the guiding principles of

SBM processes. This has four principles: Collective Leadership and Governance,

Community-Based Learning, Accountability for Performance and Results and Convergence

to Harness Resources for Education learned that the vision of SBM is to make the

community and its members responsible for the education of their children and make the

children responsible for building the community.