Learning Outcomes:

Lesson 6: At the end of this Chapter, you should be able to:

THE WHY AND HOW ● Explain what school and community partnership

OF SCHOOL AND
means;
● Explain the legal and sociological bases of school

COMMUNITY and; community partnership; and

PARTNERSHIP ● Cite examples of school-community

partnerships.

1. Brigada Eskwela
Partnership What can the community do for school? ● This program engages all education stakeholders to
contribute their time, effort and resources in ensuring that
Partnership implies two parties helping
public school facilities are set in time for the forthcoming
each other. Both parties benefit. This means that school opening.
if a school-community partnership exists, both
parties benefit from the relationship. Thus in the
following paragraphs, we shall present what
communities can do for schools and what
schools can do for communities.

2. Curriculum Development 3. Work Experience Programs 4. Remediation and enrichment classes

● This can mean use of community ● Business establishments and offices in the community can ● Parents and retired teachers may be involved
serve as training ground for learners. in the School Reading remediation and
resources for learning.
Learning Enrichment Programs.
 5. Youth Development Programs
The young may involve themselves in youth
6. Community service What can schools do for communities in
● ● Are students participating in tutorial programs,
development programs and develop their skills and community reforestation programs clean up drive for a return?
talents, learn how to deal positively with peers and adults river, assisting in medical mission.
and serve a resources in their communities.

● Classroom used by community

organizations for meetings. ● School facilities used for community
● School used as a polling place and assemblies ● What can we learn
venue for medical mission which it ● Schools basketball court used for from the experiences
may co-sponsor with the Rural local celebrations and barangay of school and
Health Unit sports league
community partners?
● School used as an evacuation
center

Strong school community partnership

Learning from the Experiences of ● Feeding program
Schools and Community Partners
1. Dumingaga Central
School, Dumingaga,
Zamboanga del Sur
 “Kiddie Cop” classes
● Cops lectures
● Pembo Angels Magic Spot (PAMS)
● Project Revitalized Enthusiasm for
Assistance to Children of Humanity
(REACH)
● BOWLS Brain Operates Well on
Loaded Stomach
● Pera sa panapon
Section 1: Short Title:
● This act shall be known as the
"Governance of Basic Education
Act of 2001"
Municipal Welfare and Development Office
2. Angels Magic Spot and Project
REACH, etc.- Pembo Elementary
School, Makati
R.A 9155
● AN ACT INSTITUTING A FRAMEWORK OF
Legal Bases for Parents and GOVERNANCE FOR BASIC EDUCATION,
ESTABLISHING AUTHORITY AND
Community Involvement ACCOUNTABILITY, RENAMING THE
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, CULTURE
AND SPORTS AS THE DEPARTMENT OF
EDUCATION, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
to make such education
Section 2: Declaration of Policy
●
accessible to all by providing to all
● to protect and promote the right of
every Filipino children a free and
all citizens to quality basic
compulsory education in the
education.
elementary level and free
education in the high school level.
 Section 3
alternative learning systems for-out (f) of the same Act encourages
Batas Pambansa Blg. 232,
● ●

of school youth and adult learners. "local initiatives for the ●

● the goal of basic education. improvement of schools and otherwise known as the
learning centers and to provide the
Education Act of 1982,
means by which...improvement
may be achieved and sustained." section 7.

● "Every educational institution shall provide RA 8525, Adopt A-School

for the establishment of appropriate
bodies through which the members of the
educational community may discuss
relevant issues, and communicate
information and suggestions for
assistance and support of the school and
for the promotion of their common
interest.
● Representatives from each
subgroup of the educational
community shall sit and participate
in these bodies, the rules and the
procedures of which must be
approve by them and duly
published.
Program Act
● "private entities to assist a public school, whether
elementary, secondary, or tertiary in, but not
limited to the following areas: staff and faculty
development for training and further education;
construction of facilities, provision of books,
publication and other instructional materials; and
modernization of instructional technologies"

EFA 2015 Plan was extended in Functionalist theory

Education for all Beyond 2015-Agenda Sociological Basis of One of the major theoretical
2030. perspectives in sociology. – states that
● Agenda 2030 has 7 new educational targets from 2015 to 2030 School- Community institutions must perform their
that must involve education stakeholders which in essence is
school- community partnership. UNESCO Assistant Director
General for Education, Dr, Qian Tang, himself admits that
Partnership respective functions for the stability of
Agenda 2030 cannot be realized without schools partnering with society.
community. He said " Our vision must be more aggressive, more
committed not just involving goverment, non-goverment ● The school cannot do it all.
agencies but all stakeholders.
 “It takes a village to educate a
●
child”
- Key to the concept of total
education involves neighbors,
teachers, coaches, and church
leaders will affect who the child will
be in the future.
● This is not to mention the negative effect
of uncontrolled and unregulated use
technology on the young. While the
technology has brought a lot of
convenience of its uncontrolled
unregulated use by the tech- savvy kids
expose these kids to all sorts of
information not necessarily favorable for
their development.
● Added to these is the increasing
The rearing and education of the
number of families composed of
●
child is the primary obligation of
single mothers struggling to raise a
parents. The school, the Church
family. With the burden of earning
and other social institutions come in
lodged solely on the shoulders of
to assist parents and families to fulfil
one parent, single parents struggle
their irreplaceable obligation.
to earn enough to provide for their
families.
● Being involved in the child’s
education not only at home, but
also at school can make a huge
difference.
● Families, schools and other social
institutions need to work together to
save the youth.