Administrators Out of Classrooms. Besides not being equipped by current training or experience for curricula leadership, neither do they have time. School administration is a fulltime job and curriculum virtuosity is neither a prerequisite nor helpful. Indeed, curricula duties are diversions. The administrator as curriculum leader is an anachronism, a relic of times when administrators were presumed to have superior knowledge or access to information.
Teachers now have equal or superior access, training and expertise.
That they should be encumbered in their professional activities by less qualified administrative superiors is akin to trying to speed forward by pressing the brake instead of the accelerator. Where SBM empowers administrators, teacher sovereignty empowers teachers. This redefinition of roles resolves the inherent conflict between responsibility for administration and responsibility for curriculum. If there are any consequences at all for poor productivity, teachers are the ones who suffer them. Teacher sovereignty solves that problem.