The Why and How of School and Community Partnership

May Villyn Gutierrez

Jasmin Rose Gregorio
Charbel Jimenez
Russell Hernandez

School and Community Partnership

- Partnership implies two parties helping each other.
- Both parties benefit.

What can the Community do for Schools?

• Brigada Eskwela (DepEd Order No. 100 S 2009)
This program engages all education stakeholders to contribute their time, effort and resources in
ensuring that public school facilities are set in time for the forthcoming school opening.

Curriculum Development
- The use of community resources for learning

Work Experience Program

- Business establishments and offices in the community can serve as training grounds for
learners.

Remediation and Enrichment Classes

- Parents and retired teachers can be involved in the School Reading program and
learning enrichment program

Youth Development Programs

- The young may involve themselves in youth development program and community
services.

What can the school do to the community?

The classroom used by the community organization meetings
Venue for medical missions
Used as evacuation center
School resources can be used for skills-training for parents and out-of-school youths

Sociological Basis
“IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO EDUCATE A CHILD”
Functionalist Theory
Legal Bases
I. RA 9155, Governance of Basic Education Act, Section E (10)
- Governance of Basic Education Act of 2001.”
…Establishing school and community networks and encouraging the active participation of
teachers organizations, non-academic personnel of public schools, and parents-teachers-
community associations
II. RA 9155, Governance of Basic Education Act, Section 3
- Purposes and Objectives. – The purposes and objectives of this Act are:

(a) To provide the framework for the governance of basic education which shall set the general
directions for educational policies and standards and establish authority, accountability and
responsibility for achieving higher learning outcomes;
(b) To define the roles and responsibilities of, and provide resources to, the field offices which
shall implement educational programs, projects and services in communities they serve;
(c) To make schools and learning centers the most important vehicle for the teaching and
learning of national values and for developing in the Filipino learners love of country and pride in
its rich heritage;
(d) To ensure that schools and learning centers receive the kind of focused attention they
deserve and that educational programs, projects and services take into account the interests of
all members of the community;
(e) To enable the schools and learning centers to reflect the values of the community by
allowing teachers/learning facilitators and other staff to have the flexibility to serve the needs of
all learners;
(f) To encourage local initiatives for the improvement of schools and learning centers and to
provide the means by which these improvements may be achieved and sustained; and
(g) To establish schools and learning centers as facilities where schoolchildren are able to learn
a range of core competencies prescribed for elementary and high school education programs or
where the out-of-school youth and adult learners are provided alternative learning programs and
receive accreditation for at least the equivalent of a high school education.
III. Batas Pambansa Blg. 232/ Education Act of 1982
- An act providing for the establishment and maintenance of an integrated system of
education.
IV. RA 8525, Adopt-a-school program act
- AN ACT ESTABLISHING AN "ADOPT-A-SCHOOL PROGRAM," PROVIDING
INCENTIVES THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
V. Philippine Education for all (EFA) 2015 Plan
- A vision and a holistic program of reforms of the country to achieve an improved quality
of basic education for every Filipino by 2015. The central goal of the Philippine EFA 2015 Plan
is basic competencies for all that will bring about functional literacy for all.