| "SITE-BASED DECISION-MAKING" | WRITER: James A. Zura |
| CLIENT: Texas Education Agency Training Video for Teachers |
This material is copyrighted by the Texas Education Agency, with All Rights Reserved, and presented herein by James A. Zura solely as an example of his work. |
| VISUALS | SOUNDS |
| A-1 OPENING GRAPHIC: "Site-Based Decision Making...The Future of Texas Schools" |
[Opening Music] |
| A-2 BRICK BACKGROUND: Montage of Classroom Shots overlayed | NARRATOR: "All students... can learn! What they learn, and how they learn it depends on a lot of different circumstances |
| A-3 GRAPHIC: Texas Regions; add C.G.'s per Narrative | Here in Texas, those circumstances span some 270,000 square miles, twenty regions, more than a thousand districts, six thousand schools, and over 200,000 teachers dealing with approximately three million students. |
| A-4a LOSE GRAPHIC EXTERIOR: Ron Stone walks in front of brick wall A-4b Ron Stone enters School; Camera tilt up to windows |
And as society, the workplace, teaching methods, and technology continue to evolve, it becomes ineffective to maintain some of the systems of the past... and even more complex to try and cast any iron-clad rules for the future. If we're going to do the best we can to improve student achievement, a climate of 'flexible change' must prevail." |
| B-1 TEACHER # 1 | Teacher #1: "Our educational system needs the liberty to adapt... to breathe... to grow in these changing circumstances." |
| B-2 TEACHER # 2 | Teacher #2: "We need to do a better job of creating a learning atmosphere... one that's responsive to localized, specific situations." |
| B-3 TEACHER # 3 | Teacher #3: "As an educator, I feel that we'd all be more successful at improving student performance... if decisions could be made closer to the environment that they affect." |
| B-4 TEACHER # 4: | Teacher #4: "After all, we're the ones in the trenches...We know what's going on with our students... and we can more accurately predict how decisions are going to affect our students." |
| B-5 TEACHER # 5 | Teacher #5: "Having input... and goal-setting... that is really important to me. And if I know that this kind of pro-active attitude is to be encouraged... yeah, then I think I can be a team player." |
| B-6 TEACHER # 6 | Teacher #6: "You can't do today what you did yesterday. Because the kids are different, and times are different. And when you finally give teachers a voice... I mean, we are with those children every single day. We're responsible for them! And when you finally give us a part in the decision-making, then you give us worth! You give us self-esteem!" |
| C-1 CLASSROOM: Ron. walks to Podium, picks up document | NARRATOR: "Understanding the need for change, and responding to the input from educators, has resulted in the passage of House Bill 2885 in May of 1991 by the Texas State Legislature. Now, the core of this law is to de-centralize decision-making... to clear the path for campus-based initiatives aimed at improving outcomes for all students. |
| C-2 CLASSROOM: Ron. at Overhead (Effect Transparency) | Now, if you haven't already, you certainly will be hearing a lot more about this Site-Based Decision Making. It means just what it says: the ability to make decisions based on the conditions that are prevalent at the site." |
(End of this Sample) |
(Total Program: 15 minutes) |