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Participants
of the three-month SBM training during the closing
of the 5-day intensive training workshop at the Richmonde
Hotel. Representing the league was Angelica Sanchez,
program officer of the national secretariat (2nd from
left, standing). |
The
League of Provinces has taken the lead among the LGU leagues
in championing school-based management along with the Department
of Education.
The LPP, through the ULAP, has been invited to participate
in the project to build the leadership and management capability
of the Department of Education to support school-based management
(SBM) in the country under its Basic Education Sector Reform
Agenda.
SBM in its general sense is engaging the school, community
and all stakeholders to participate in the management of
the local schools. It involves not only principal empowerment
and them being agents of change, but also getting the schools
to be the center of education, managed and owned by the
community.
Aside from the key officials of the DepEd, the various associations
under the Education Network, the NGO and LGU sectors were
invited to participate in the program which consisted of
three components.
The first component of the program held last 21-25 August,
all 20 participants underwent intensive residential trainings
and workshops on building education leadership and management
capacity to support SBM.
Topics such as the BESRA, SBM, stakeholder and community
engagement, risk management and action research –
the second component of the program, were discussed.
It
was also during the course of the training when the participants
planned for their respective group work-based action research
projects to be implemented in the next three weeks.
On 14 – 21 October, the team flew to Brisbane, Australia
for the international benchmarking.
Together with the training team, Dr. Tricia Fox –
QUT course coordinator, and Menchie Auste – process
consultant and Philippine counterpart, the trainees had
the opportunity to visit two state schools applying the
principles of SBM. They likewise had the opportunity to
interact with educational leaders at the Queensland University
of Technology on current initiatives in school leadership
and management undertaken by the Ministry of Education of
Queensland.
The participants were likewise able to interact with the
head of training services of the Local Government Association
of Queensland, Kathy Kelly, on Key Performance Indicators
and the Local Government Training Package for staff development.
Mr. Peter Rosenfelt of the QUT likewise discussed on the
issues relative to community and stakeholder strategies
for teachers and principals utilized in Queensland schools
and which can be used here.
The next three weeks gave the participants the opportunity
to finalize and fine-tune their respective work-based initiatives
before they shared their insights, lessons learned and realizations
on the entire program, as well as the results of their work-based
activities last 17 November.
As one of the next steps for the program, the league has
committed itself to advocate for the active engagement of
the LGUs in the implementation of the SBM at the local level.
The DepEd program was implemented under the Public Sector
Linkages Program of the Australian Agency for International
Development and organized by the Queensland University of
Technology and DevConsult. (angelica j. sanchez)
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