Why and what policies matter in school autonomy and accountability
Session Summary
School Autonomy and Accountability
Learning objectives
By the end of the session, participants will be able to understand what policies matter in school autonomy and accountability to achieve better education outcomes in a variety of contextual situations. Participants will also understand why these policies matter.
Presenter
Harry Patrinos , Practice Manager, Education
Outline
The speaker will provide an overview of evidence that explains what policies matter in school autonomy and accountability and why these policies are important for achieving better education outcomes.
Indonesia: School-based management in action
Session Summary
SCHOOL BASED MANAGEMENT (SBM) : INDONESIA EXPERIENCES
Learning objectives
By the end of the session, participants will be able to understand the successes and challenges of implementing school autonomy and accountability policies and practices, especially how country context influences what interventions and adjustments are necessary over time.
Presenter
Dr. Fasli Jalal , Former Vice Minister of Education and Culture, Republic of Indonesia and current Chairman of National Population and Family Planning Board (BKKBN)
Outline
This session will provide a real life example of the enabling policy environment for school-based management and accountability through the evolution of Indonesia’s School-based Management programs. It will touch on the following:
- How Indonesia has been developing its school-based management policies over the years in an incremental manner.
- How Indonesia tried to align policies and balance autonomy and accountability to achieve the expected outcomes.
- Timing of policies and how they were put in place based on the country context.
- Working with education and community stakeholders to build ownership and capacity.
- Achievements and challenges that Indonesia can share with other countries.
School Autonomy and Accountability. Persuasion Activity
Session Summary
SCHOOL AUTONOMY AND ACCOUNTABILITY – PERSUASION ACTIVITY
Learning objectives
This session will give participants a chance to use SAA concepts they have just gained from the first two presentations and construct their own argument for considering SAA policies in a fictional country.
Presenter
Angela Demas , Senior Education Specialist and Clark Matthews, Consultant
Outline
This session will be a quick activity that allows participants to test their skill in advocating for policies supportive of SAA.
- Participants will work in small groups. Some will play the role of representatives from a subnational Ministry of Education office and the remaining participants will play the role of Minister and Vice-Minister of Education.
- The group from the subnational Ministry of Education office will try to clearly articulate the benefits of their proposed SAA pilot intervention and explain why the Ministry of Education should accept their proposal. The Minister and Vice-Minister, whom are responsible for the entire education system, will provide feedback to the proposal.
- At the end, select groups will have the opportunity to share insights and experiences from their discussion.
How to build good systems
Session Summary
Assessing School Autonomy and Accountability (SAA) Policies
What Matters Most for School Autonomy and Accountability: A Framework Paper
Learning objectives
By the end of the session, participants will have a better understanding of the diagnostic tool that has been developed under SABER-School Autonomy and Accountability (SAA) and how its application can assist in obtaining a comprehensive view of a country’s depth and scope of their programs and policies for school-based management.
Presenter
Angela Demas , Senior Education Specialist
Outline
Participants will learn about the SABER-SAA Diagnostic Tool as well as the key policy goals and policy levers/actions that inform policy dialogue and guide SAA development. The session will review the SABER-SAA Tools that were created to assess a country’s school autonomy and accountability policies.
A case study will be used as a practical example of how to identify misalignment of the 3As (autonomy-assessment-accountability); and how to meaningfully develop recommendations for next steps using the results of the benchmarking database.
SABER-SAA Policy Goals
SABER-SAA Tools (rubric and Data Collection Instrument)
How SABER-SAA can support Country teams
Materials
Using SABER-SAA in policy dialogue and Bank operations
Session Summary
USING SABER IN POLICY DIALOGUE AND WORLD BANK OPERATIONS
Learning objectives
By the end of the session, participants will be able to understand how SABER-SAA assessment results can be used for policy dialogue.
Presenter
Angela Demas , Senior Education Specialist
Outline
This session will be centered around an activity that involves role play using analysis provided in a SABER country report.
- Participants will work in small groups. Some will play the role of a Bank team and others the counterpart team.
- Each group is expected to use the policy benchmarks to stimulate dialogue and develop policy recommendations using the country reports. The Bank and country clients will decide on the next steps needed in terms of policy reform in an area of SAA.
- Participants will compare their recommendations with real ones in a country report and reflect on them through discussions.
From Policy to Implementation
Session Summary
The Gap Between Policy Intent & Implementation, School Autonomy and Accountability in Thailand
Learning objectives
Participants will learn from the case of Thailand how analysis of SAA policy intent and implementation has exposed possible gaps in what is being implemented at the subnational and school levels. The presenter will discuss how effective policy implementation can be put in place for better education outcomes and consider how operations can support such policy implementation.
Presenter
Harry Patrinos , Practice Manager, Education
Outline
The presenter will discuss sub-national and school level findings on SAA policies and their implementation. The case will feature Thailand.
After the presentation, participants will break into two groups to have a facilitated discussion on the case.
- Facilitated discussion will focus on specific SBM topics such as inspector’s involvement in SBM, use of data for school-level planning and monitoring, role of school councils, etc.
Key Determinants for Successful Policy Implementation
Session Summary
Key determinants for successful policy implementation
Learning objectives
By the end of the session, participants will be able to understand key determinants for successful policy implementation through a group exercise of developing a school improvement plan (SIP).
Presenter
Angela Demas , Senior Education Specialist
Clark Matthews , Consultant
Outline
This session features a small group exercise where participants will take on the roles of various local school stakeholders who will be developing a school improvement plan (SIP) using information provided. This would be a chance for participants to demonstrate what they learned (how to link autonomy-assessment-accountability) and to consider what kinds of support is needed at the sub-national and school level to carry out these activities.
The small groups will report back to the forum about the SIP that they have designed, what goals they were trying to achieve, what information they needed, and how they considered the balancing of policy goals in creating their SIPs.
