The superintendent and central office staff will need to alter their traditional role as districts move from centralized to decentralized management. They must switch from a decision-making role to a facilitating role, as more and more key decisions are made at the school level. Following the high-involvement model, central office staff and superintendents need to develop procedures to devolve budget and personnel decisions to the school site; ensure that schools invest in ongoing professional development and training for faculty and staff, perhaps through a formal budget set-aside (2 to 4 percent of a site's budget); create a fiscal accounting process that makes revenue and expenditure information available to sites through an interactive computer system; provide data on student demographics and achievement; and develop an awards and compensation structure that rewards teachers individually for expanding their professional expertise and collectively for producing significant improvements in student performance - particularly achievement.
See also
"Decentralize
four key resources: power, knowledge and skills, information, and
rewards," from the Critical Issue on site-based management.