School Autonomy

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School Autonomy

• State of Israel Ministry of Education
• Central Region
• DAFNA LEV
• DIRECTOR

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School Autonomy

• School and its community empowerment
• In order that school will function in a way that
  suites its culture, its student and community
  needs in the most thorough and efficient way will
  be required to restore the school autonomy.

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The Approach

• The pluralistic approach
• The fundament of this approach states that the
  education system must develop various tools and
  working procedures in order to suit the needs of
  the students. Variety in Education system is
  considered an efficient way to increase learning
  motivation and to restore the school identity
  back to educational establishments.

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Aims

• Increasing Parents involvement
• Increasing social integration in the school
• Equality of opportunities and gaps reduction
• School effectiveness increase
• Raising educators moral

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Strategies

• Mapping the needs and resources of the school,
  community, students and teachers.
• Development of the educational vision
• Development and setting a school working plan
  consisting of such elements as aims, outcomes,
  action plans, monitoring, self evaluation and
  accountability
• Student Achievement Tests (National Standards)

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Strategies

• Defining school unique specialization
• Teacher professional development
• Networks of Learning communities
• Joint activities between school, parents and
  community

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Outcomes

• Student achievement improvement
• Reduction in student abstinence rate
• Increasing students, parents and teachers
  satisfaction
• Increasing parents involvement (including those
  who are defined in lower social economic level)

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School leadership

• Collaboration Development of
• collaborative models in coordination with
• local authorities, ministry of education
• and the school.