From DepED
"DepEd believes that high-performing schools can be instruments for reform. Through school-to-school partnerships, high-performing schools can share their best practices and help other schools improve their school performance"
Know what school-to-school partnerships is, the benefits of engaging in one, and who are the Leader and Partner Schools.
Further details of the school-to-school partnerships can found on DO 44, s. 2016."
Table of Contents
- Why encourage school-to-school partnerships?
- What are the school-to-school partnership guilines for FY 2016
- Who are the Leader Schools and Partner Schools?
- What are the expected benefits for Partner Schools?
- What are the incentives for Leader Schools?
- How will a Leader School select a Partner School?
- What are eligible partnership activities?
- What are non-eligible expense items?
Why encourage school-to-school partnership?
Through school-to-school partnerships, high-performing schools can share their best practices and help other schools improve their school performance using Learning Action Cells (LAC), the Continuous Improvement (CI) Program, and School-Based Management (SBM). This requires that high-performing schools become Leader Schools with active leadership roles, initiating partnerships with other schools and taking on broader responsibilities, which includes initiating partnerships with other schools
What are the school-to-school partnership guidelines for FY 2016?
The guidelines detail how Leader Schools can create and cultivate partnerships with nearby schools. Leader Schools are provided with a P140,000 school-to-school partnership fund to be used for sharing best practices and for engaging in partnership activities with Partnes Schools, This fund is valid until the end of 2016
Who are the Leader Schools and Partner Schools?
Partner Schools are schools that will be assisted by Leader Schools in reacing their potential in school performance. In the partnership guilines for FY 2016, these are the schools categorized as Level 1,2,3, or 4 in the 2014 Perforamance-Based Bonus (PBB) performance categories.
* [Level 1-4] One Partner School will be selected by each Leader School.
* [Level 5-8] Leader Schools in the partnership guidelines for FY 2016 are those high-performing schools categorized as Level 5,6,7,or 8 in the 2014 PBB performance categories.
What are the expected benefits for Partner Schools?
- Engage in collaborative professional development activities such as CI, LAC and action research
- Had jointly undertaken planning, problem-solving, and resource mobilization activities to address community-wide educational issues
- Improve social trust, awareness and understanding with other schools
What are the incentives for Leader Schools?
- A rating of 2 for all indicators under the Leadership and Governance Dimension of the SBM Framework if school-to-school partnerships are successfully implemented
- Inclusion of the partnership activities in the IPCRF and OPCRF for teaching and non-teaching personel
- Service credits for teachers subject to existing rules and regulations
How will a Leader School select a Partner School?
A Leader School must select one nearby Partner School from a list which can be accessed using this link: bit.ly/school_partner. The suggested procedures on eatblishing school-to-school partnerships can be seen in Annex 2. No school shall be selected as a Partner School more than once.
What are eligible partnership activities?
The partnership activities and projects must be aligned to the spirit and intention of this poloicy which is to build genuine partnerships between and among schools.
NOTE: These eligible activities are just examples and are in no way complete and exhaustive. Therefore, these activities should not be taken as the only means of achieving authentic partnerships. Based on tis needs, the Leader and Partner Schools should prioritize which activities to implement
Best Practices on Curriculum, Instruction and Assesment
| KEY STAGE | SPECIFIC ELIGIBLE PARTNERSHIP ACTIVITIES | GENERAL ELIGIBLE PERTNERSHIP ACTIVITIES |
| Kinder to Grade 3 | Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education |
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| Grades 4 to 6 | Activities on Technology and Livelihood Education (TLE) | |
| Grades 7 to 10 | Activities on TLE or TechnicalVocationalLivelihood (TVL), Senior High School (SHS) and Career Guidance Advocacy | |
| Grades 11 to 12 (For integrated SHS) | Activities on TVL, SHS and Career Guidance Advocacy, and industry partnership engagement |
Best Practices on Leadership and Governance
- School improvement planning and SBM assessment;
- CI Methodology, LAC, and Action Research;
- Transparency and accountability (e.g. School Report Card (SRC) and Transparency and Accountability Board);
- Water, sanitation and hygiene;
- Solid waste management;
- Advocacy and education campaigns for internal and external stakeholders;
- Enrolment management;
- Child-mapping or tracking of learners, especially boys, who are at risk of dropping out; and
- Information, Communication and Technology.
Best Practices on Disaster Risk Reduction
- Resource-sharing and rapid response;
- Education continuity strategies;
- School-community emergency preparedness drills;
- Temporary Learning Spaces following national or local designs;
- Joint clean up after disasters;
- Psychosocial support for students and teachers after disasters;
- Collaborative hazard-mapping; and
- Helping nearby schools become more resilient to disasters.
What are non-eligible expense items?
- Hiring and payment of salaries of additional staff;
- Payment of professional fees/honoraria;
- Payment of utilities;
- Purchase and reproduction of National Achievement Test reviewers;
- Purchase of commercially available instructional materials;
- Field trips and other educational trips;
- Purchase of equipment;
- Activities funded by other special or national programs or subsidies; and
- Gifts or tokens for DepEd monitoring and field Technical Assistance teams.
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