Unit 3: Strategic Planning & the Budget Please review the videos on APA and avoiding plagiarism before attempting to complete this assignment. Submitting plagiarized work (whether intentional or unintentional) is a serious academic infraction that can lead to serious consequences. Thus, learn everything you can about APA and avoiding plagiarism before proceeding. For this assignment, you will be required to use your textbook and at least two other external resources. Be sure to follow the assignment criteria (below) correctly before submitting this assignment. Assignment Directions: Write a 3-page APA paper on the three select topics/questions below. For the three topics below, write a one-page response. Use external sources to avoid simply repeating what you book has outlined. It is important to research topics as a graduate student in order to grow your knowledge based and better explore the topics presented. Topics 1 and 2 are derived from your Unit 3 reading assignments (stemming from Chapter 11); the third topic is dependent on an external link. Topics are below. Topic/Question #1 (1 page in length): Define budget and outline and discuss the four elements of the planning process for schools and what steps school leaders need to take to adhere to this process. Be sure to highlight what stakeholders school leaders need to draw in and what data ought to be sought and analyzed as part of the strategic planning budgeting process. Topic/Question #2 (1 page in length): Discuss the various methods districts formally adopt as their budgeting process to include Percentage Add-on Budgeting; Zero Base Budgeting; Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Evaluating System; Site Based Budgeting and Performance Based Budgeting. Be sure the discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each. Topic/Question #3 (2 pages in length): Right now, you have a cursory understanding of the strategic budgeting process. This topic is designed to expand your current knowledge of this topic and extend that knowledge. For this topic, you are being asked to explore a budgeting process website. This website takes the same topic (you have been reading about in your text) but details out the process, even better. Review the required viewing links below (and explore the full website at your leisure), then write a 2-page summary discussing the principles of budgeting (below) and the 12 elements of budgeting. Feel free to include anything else you learned from viewing this very detailed and helpful website. It truly is an excellent source for all students enrolled in this course. Resource #1 (4 Principles of the Budget Process): Resource #2 (12 Elements of the Budgeting Process): Resource #2 (Budgeting Chart): Formatting Criteria: Papers SUBMITTED that are not formatted in APA will NOT be GRADED!!! It is the obligation of the graduate student to study and learn APA and how to properly cite sources. APA Style 12 pt. font only 1″ margins (top and bottom, left and right) Font Type: Times Roman Numeral Page Layout Page 1–APA title page (formatted correctly) Page 2–Response to Topic/Question #1 (should be 1 full page typed) Page 3–Response to Topic Question #2 (should be 1 full page typed) Pages 4-5 Response to Topic Question #3 (should be 2 full pages typed) Page 6–APA Reference PageShow more
