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School business management case studies

The school business manager has a vital role to play in the development of schools in the 21st century and the impact that their role has on a school is significant.

This series of videos explores the role of the school business manager and includes school business managers and their headteachers from a range of school contexts discussing the difference the role is making to schools.

• Role of the school business manager
• Promoting the role of the school business manager
• Impact of the school business manager:
  • Focusing on objectives for children first and then finding ways to fund them
  • School business manager managing the provision of extended school services
  • School business director operating in a hard federation
  • School business director operating in a special school
  • Demonstration project perspective - chairing an SBM forum to develop SBM services across a group of schools
• Impact of the ADSBM programme:
  • School business director project managing a new school build (Building Schools for the Future)
  • Demonstration project perspective: headteacher succession planning
  • Personal development from administrator to advanced school business manager

Career journeys

• Read about the career journey of Morag Somerville, a school business manager from Sheffield
• Moira Boyle and Rahat Aboobaker talk about working over a cluster of schools
• Find out how and why Karen Williams decided to apply for a school business management role

International perspectives

This video from our annual conference on 12-13 July 2010 offers an insight into the role of the SBM internationally.

• Merle Stober, school business administrator from South Africa