Empowering School

And community collaboration

-2020-2021

A Handbook
for Parents, Teachers, and Stakeholders

A Handbook for Parents, Teachers, and Stakeholders

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THE VISION
 We dream of Filipinos
who passionately love their country
and whose values and competencies
enable them to realize their full potential
and contribute meaningfully to building the nation.

As a learner-centered public institution,

the Department of Education
continuously improves itself
to better serve its stakeholders

THE MISSION

To protect and promote the right of every Filipino to quality, equitable, culture-based, and
complete basic education where:

Students learn in a child-friendly, gender-sensitive, safe, and motivating environment.

Teachers facilitate learning and constantly nurture every learner.
Administrators and staff, as stewards of the institution, ensure an enabling and supportive
environment for effective learning to happen.
Family, community, and other stakeholders are actively engaged and share responsibility for
developing life-long learners.

CORE VALUES

Maka-Diyos
Maka-tao
Makakalikasan
Makabansa

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PURPOSE
 Purpose School Community Collaboration will help to strengthen the capacity of schools to
improve children’s learning. By helping families to support their children’s learning and by
gathering the resources of the community to ensure student well-being , will make a valued
contribution to the learning success of students, School and Community replace all other
entities as defined in legislation.

School Community collaboration is established within the authority of Boards of Education to

ensure alignment of accountability, authority and responsibility among the schools of the
Division.

The purpose of the School Community Collaboration is to:

• develop shared responsibility for the learning success and well-being of all children and
youth; and,

• encourage and facilitate parent and community engagement in school planning and
improvement processes.

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DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS

DUTIES AND RESPOSIBILITIES OF THE PRINCIPAL
1. Perform his duties to school of discharging his responsibilities in accordance with the
philosophy, goals and objectives of the school.
2. Be accountable for the efficient and effective administration and management of the school.
3. Develop and maintain a healthy school atmosphere conducive to the promotions and
reservation of academic freedom.
4. Assure and maintain professional behavior in his work and dealing with students, teachers,
academic non-teaching personnel, administrative staff, and parents.
5. Render adequate reports to teachers, academic non teaching personnel and non academic
staff on their actual performance and counsel them on ways of improving the same.
6. Observe due process, fairness, promptness, privacy, constructiveness and consistency in
disciplining his teachers and other personnel.
7. Maintain adequate records and submit required reports to the Department.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF TEACHERS

1. Meet and instruct assigned classes in the locations and at the times designated.
2. Develop and maintain a classroom environment conducive to effective learning within the
limits of the resources provided by the division, with responsibility for the order and progress of
his/her classes.
3. Prepare for classes assigned, and show written evidence of preparation upon request of the
immediate supervisor.
4. Assist students in setting and maintaining standards of classroom behavior.
5. Take all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials, and
facilities with responsibility for the neatness of his/her room and the surroundings.
6. Evaluate student progress on a regular basis.
7. Employ a variety of instructional techniques and instructional media, consistent with the
physical limitations of the location provided and the needs and capabilities of the individuals or
student groups involved.
8. Maintain accurate, complete, and correct records as required by law.
9. be available to students and parents for education-related purposes outside the instructional
day when required or requested to do so under the reasonable term.
10. Comply with and enforce school rules, administrative regulations, and School Board
policies.
11. Attend and participate in faculty meetings as well as other professional meetings called by
the administrative staff.

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12. Cooperate with other members of staff in planning instructional goals, objectives, and
methods.
13. Assist in selecting books, equipment, and other instructional materials.
14. Establish and maintain cooperative relations with others.
15. Accomplish reasonable special assignments as assigned by the principal.
16. Provide for his/her own professional growth through an On going program of study,
including workshops, seminars, conferences, and/or advanced course work at institutions of
higher learning.
17. Perform other school duties as assigned.

DUTIES AND OBLIGATIONS OF PARENTS

1. Shall help carry out the Educational objectives in accordance with national goals.
2. Obliged to enable their children to obtain elementary education and shall be enable them to
obtain secondary and higher education in pursuance of the right formation of the youth.
3. Shall cooperate with the school program-curricular and co- curricular.

DUTIES AND OBLIGATIONS OF STUDENTS

1. Exert his utmost to develop his potentialities for service, particularly by under going an
education suited to his abilities, in order that he may become an asset to his family and society.
2. Uphold the academic integrity of the school, endeavor to achieve academic excellence and
abide by the rules and regulations governing his academic responsibilities and moral integrity.
3. Promote and maintain peace and tranquility of the school by observing the rules of discipline.
4. Exerting efforts to attain harmonious relationships with fellow students , the teaching and
academic staff and other school personnel.
5. Participate Actively in civic affairs and promotion of general welfare, particularly in the
social, economic and cultural development of his community and in attainment of a just,
compassionate and orderly society.
6. Exercise his rights responsibility in the knowledge that he is answerable for any violation or
the public welfare.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF NON-TEACHING PERSONNEL

1. Improve him professionally by keeping abreast of the latest trends and techniques in his
profession.
2. Assume, promote and maintain professional attitude towards his work, students, teachers,
administrators and administrative staff and relate with them in supportive and cordial manner.
3. Promote and maintain an atmosphere conducive to service learning.

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SCHOOL RULES AND REGULATIONS

 I. RULES ON PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND GROOMING

1. Cleanliness and neatness should be properly observed in wearing school uniform.

2. Students must wear minimum jewelry. Fancy accessories are not allowed. Wearing of
earrings is strictly prohibited among male students.
3. Make up and nail polish are prohibited. Fingernails should be cut short.
4. Male students should have their prescribed haircut every first Monday of the month. Bangs
should not reach the eyebrows. Standing pun hairstyle, coloring or dyeing, use of spray net and
gel are not allowed. Male teachers have the authority to cut the hair of the students who violate
this regulation.
5. wearing of caps or hats is likewise prohibited.

II. DRESS CODE

1. Male students must wear white polo, black pants and black leather shoes with white or black
socks.
2. Maong denims and corduroy pants are not allowed. Pants must follow a straight cut not
flaring.
3. Boys must wear pure white sando or undershirt. Printed and colored shirt are not allowed.
4. Girls are required to wear white collared blouse with blue, maroon and white tie and blue,
maroon and white skirt with pleats.
5. School uniform must be properly and cleanly worn.
6. Wearing identification card is also a part of the dress code. Lost ID’s must be immediately
reported to the adviser or the Guidance Coordinator for the issuance of certificate of lost ID.
7. Unbuttoning of polo shirt or undressing of polo shirt or uniform after class is not allowed.
8. Failure to wear the prescribed uniform means an excuse letter signed by the parents and
noted by the adviser and principal.

III. ON ATTENDANCE AND PUNCTUALITY

1. All students are required to attend classes regularly and punctually.

2. To avoid tardiness, students must be on their respective lines five minutes before the
scheduled time of morning preliminaries.
3. Three times of tardiness is equivalent to one absence.
4. A student who has absent or who cut classes must present an excuse letter signed by his/her
parents, and must secure a letter from the adviser noted by the Guidance Coordinator.
5. Consideration will be given to students who committed first offense of tardiness.

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IV. ON POSSESSION OF PROHIBITED ARTICLES

(The school authorities have the right to confiscate the following articles.)
1. Firearms and deadly weapons
2. Drugs and related paraphernalia
3. Pornographic materials
4. Cigarettes
5. Hard liquor
6. Cellular phones, other electronic gadgets
7. Sexually related materials
8. Spiders

V. ON CLEANLINESS AND ORDERLINESS

1. Students must maintain cleanliness and orderliness in and out of the classroom.
2. Students should dispose their garbage properly.
3. Chairs and tables should be arranged properly before and after class.
4. Staying outside the classroom before, during and after each class session is not permitted.
5. Silence should always be observed in and out of the classroom.

VI. ON CARE OF SCHOOL PROPERTY

1. Writing on desk, tables, doors, walls is strictly prohibited. Vandalism is not allowed inside
and outside the school premises.
2. Books, newspapers and magazines in the library should be properly used under the
supervision of the librarian or the person-in-charge.
3. Improper handling, damage and loss of any school property will subject the individual to
repair or pay the said property.
4. Students are not allowed to use, to get or to touch the personal belongings of their adviser
unless given permission.

VI. ON CARE OF SCHOOL PROPERTY

1. Writing on desk, tables, doors, walls is strictly prohibited. Vandalism is not allowed inside
and outside the school premises.
2. Books, newspapers and magazines in the library should be properly used under the
supervision of the librarian or the person-in-charge.
3. Improper handling, damage and loss of any school property will subject the individual to
repair or pay the said property.

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4. Students are not allowed to use, to get or to touch the personal belongings of their adviser
unless given permission.

VII. ON OFFENSE AND PENALTIES

Minor Offenses
1. Non-observance and compliance of the rules on personal appearance and grooming.
2. Non-observance and compliance of the dress code.
3. Non-observance and compliance of the rules on cleanliness and orderliness.
4. Tardiness
5. Chewing gums and eating in class.
6. Leaving the classroom without the teacher’s permission.
7. Leaving the campus without the adviser and principal’s permission.
8. Improper decorum during mass, assembly or related activity.
9. Non-attendance or participation to school assembly or activity without justifiable reason.
10. Distracting classroom setting (e.g. loud rings of mobile phones, using toys and gadgets may
become center of attention.)

DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS:

1st Offense- Verbal Warning

2nd Offense- Written warning and notification of parents
3rd Offense- Suspension from 2-3 days.

Major Offenses

1. Possession and use of prohibited drugs

2. Possession of deadly weapons
3. Possession of pornographic materials, videos and the like
4. Fighting or inflicting injury
5. Vandalism and damage of school property
6. Membership in organizations (fraternities/sororities) unauthorized by the school
7. Habitual tardiness
8. Habitual and unreasonable absences
9. Cheating and other related forms of dishonesty such as stealing, duplicating someone else’s
project or paper, forging parent’s signature and teacher’s signature, falsification of school
documents, conducting relevant/irrelevant activities in and out of the campus without the
teacher’s permission/ supervision
10. Smoking in and out of the campus
11. Drinking alcoholic beverages in and out of the campus
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12. Serious negligence of duties and disobedience to school authorities

13. Public display of affection

PENALTY may range from SUSPENSION to EXPULSION