Improving Public Schools in the Philippines by Engaging the School Leader and the Community

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Improving Public Schools in the Philippines by
Engaging the School Leader and the Community

• Mrs. Carmela C. Oracion
• University-Community Engagement for
  Sustainability

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congested classes with 70-100 students per class
in urban areas
poor facilities like libraries, laboratories,
toilets
The problems confronting public basic education
in the Philippines today are many and complex
lack of school supplies
lack of textbooks or workbooks
children have poor health conditions
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Ateneo de Manila University

• seeks to form people to develop their talents to
  the utmost and challenge them to the highest
  levels of service

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Ateneo Center for Educational Development

• ACED began working with four very large and very
  poor schools in the Payatas area, the citys
  dumpsite

Bagong Silangan Elementary School
Lupang Pangako Elementary School
Payatas B Annex Elementary School
Payatas C Elementary School
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Ateneo Center for Educational Development

• Guided by a study conducted by the Ateneo de
  Manila for the Department of Education (1995)
• The study reveals two factors that distinguish
  between performing and non-performing schools
• Leadership of the principal
• Involvement of the community

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Overall Strategy of ACED

• School profiling
• Strategic planning
• Targeted interventions

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Profiling

• Generation of baseline data about a school where
  a picture of the actual situation (versus
  perceived situation) is obtained

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Strategic Planning

• Allows the school community (principal,
  teachers, parents, students, barangay) to come
  together and own the goal of improving the school
  as well as to identify key doable goals

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Targeted Interventions

• Leadership development programs
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• Teacher training programs
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• Instructional materials
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• Health programs

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Ateneo Center for Educational Development
4 schools
400 schools
16 schools
8 schools