This book offers guidelines for involving staff, parents, and students in school development, with a CD-ROM of reproducibles to customize the program to your own school culture.
Chapter 12: Assessment of Benefits – Staff Inset Session
Assessment of Benefits – Staff Inset Session
Projects such as this are largely concerned with change. Even if we were to achieve all the agreed actions, within the planned time and without exceeding the budget, we would not have really succeeded unless the desired change happens. Perhaps even more importantly this change must then lead to positive benefits for the school. It is therefore vitally important to try and quantify the changes that result from your new vision to see if the benefits have indeed been realised.
This is easier said than done however as change might have happened naturally anyway. Also, it is very tempting to see a positive change and put it down to something you have done ...