What is your school’s vision of excellence?

What is the goal that this partnership will help to

achieve?

My school’s vision for excellence is to produce students who are emotionally strong from
academic works. They need to become strong and resilient in the fast evolving education milieu.
I have encountered two students in other sections, who really need psychologist/guidance
counselor, and psychiatrist because of two students, Student A has emotional problem while
Student B has mental problem. This is my focus of making solutions to this. Student A, a grade
8 student, suffers emotional problem because she has been reprimanded by parents always; as a
result, she started to cut her skin using blade and a lot of wounds and bruises. I have found out
that she did it in their home and even inside the school premises. She shouted and punch her
classmates because of her uncontrolled emotions and become the cause of classroom and school
problems. Another situation, Student B, a grade 8 student who has mental problem as diagnosed
by psychiatrist, where she holds private parts of her classmates regardless of gender. Sometime
she asked her male or female classmates to massage her and later on would put it slowly in her
breast. Sometime she pinched, laugh and hated her classmate for no reason. This is a serious
issue because many students are complaining and we really did recommend her parent to have
follow check up but the parent is still in denial of the situation.

This partnership will ask the Local Government Unit to provide one psychologist in the town to
have duty at least once a week or two weeks in school. This will achieve both success of schools
and community as it will attend to emotional and mental problems of the people. The
community could have an assurance that they can be diagnosed and treated properly through
designated exact people. I knew they will support this request but funding would be difficult.
The school really needs a guidance counselor whose profession is psychologist. Actually, it is
difficult for us teachers to conduct counseling because there should be right profession to handle
that serious problem. I could only give advices but to solve that problem properly is not my forte
anymore. Our school have a teacher-counselor but sometime subjectivity in dealing the issue by
using personal opinions, personal readings could be cause of much worsen and threatening
problem.

What are some best practices for family engagement that you use in your programs/school? Can
you provide examples of those best practices in action?

Mainly, I help this program headed by our principal and initiated by teaching staff of our school,
Project Bueoligan. It becomes a voluntary action for us since this program is to extend help to
marginalized group of our community. It aims to help less fortunate students and families in our
school since many have financial problems which in turn could improve our students’
performance because the community where he/she is in supports him/her. We, teachers
contributed fifty pesos per month which we use and give to our poor students as recipient of
grocery or 500 pesos. We have two recipients per month coming from different grade levels.
They will receive it together with their family promising also to attend their class regularly.
Since most of them are working at a young age, this could reduce their absenteeism because the
said amount given to them could help to survive for a week. The duration runs for two years
already as it started last year up to now. Our school excels in inviting church group where they
teach bible studies and give packages to our poor students for a year. One box is received per
student during opening, Christmas season, and closing of class. This helps their family to reduce
their expenses in their school supplies which they are already struggling to provide of. All we
need to do is identify students who are qualified to be the recipient to assure that they will fully
utilize the help given to them.

As a teacher, how will you involve community partners to identify barriers and assess the needs
of the community?

The best example is the Brigada Eskwela, I invited the Aklan Police Mobile Force (APMF) to be
our community partner in the opening of class school year 2022-2023, I invited parents of my
former students through text message asking help to clean the school surroundings. I even asked
my family to shoulder food for our community partners who are willing to help for the safe
opening of school. They are really there to address the needs because teachers could not do it
alone. I tried to reach out and ask help to APMF through letter of invitation to their Chief.
Although I am residing far away from my station I still invited community partners in my town
and bring them in my working station. Although it is difficult to gather and seek for help but
since I am thinking of our students’ welfare, I must say no. Luckily, they expressed support for
the cleanliness of our school since it was almost two years that it has not be fully maintained.
They have been suggesting plans and ways to make their community extension meaningful as
they divide their group in different areas of the school. Actually, there is no budget allotted for
school rehabilitation during pandemic for the production of modules so academics have been
given so much priority. They have help us to address the need of our school such as painting the
classroom, segregating thrash, arranging the chairs, cutting the branches of trees since it is
growing bigger that covers up the hallway. etc. It was a big help because the needs of our
community has been addressed in many help hands. They have been our strong community
partner always and I would always be thanking them for their untiring support. We can augment
the pressing problem if we always link the school to community because it could not stand alone.