THE WHY AND HOW OF

SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY

PARTNERSHIP
Opportunities for School-Community
Partnership

Partnership implies two parties helping

each other. Both parties benefit. This means
that if a school-community partnership exist
both parties benefit from the relationship.
 WHAT CAN THE
COMMUNITY DO FOR
SCHOOLS?
1. Brigada Eskwela
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. It
takes place more or less two weeks before classes begin in June.
This is a school maintenance program that has been
institutionalized since 2009 when DepED issued DepEd Order
#100.
2. Curriculum development

This can mean use of community resources for learning

e.g. museum, elders of the community as key
informants in research or resource persons in the study
of local history.
3. Work experience program

Business establishments and offices in the community can

serve as training ground for learners. A concrete example is
the Work Immersion required of Senior High School students.
Some schools call this service learning since it actively
involves students in a wide range of experience which
benefits students and the community at the same time
fulfilling the requirement of a curriculum.
5. Youth Development Programs
The young may involve themselves in
youth development programs and develop
their skills and talents, learn how to deal
positively with peers and adults and serve as
resources in their communities.
6. Community Service

Examples of community service are

students participating in tutorial programs,
community reforestation programs, clean up
drive for a river, assisting in medical mission.
WHAT CAN SCHOOLS DO
FOR COMMUNITIES IN
RETURN?
Some may allow the community to use school resource. Here
are the concrete examples enumerated by the DepED Printer
on school Community Partnership:
• Classroom used by community organizations for meetings

• School used as a polling place and venue for medical mission which
it may co-sponsor with the Rural Health Unit
• School used by the Rural Health Unit for mothers class on child care
• School used as an evacuation center
• School facilities used for community assemblies
• School basketball court used for local celebrations and
barangay sports league
• Schools conduct livelihood skills-training programs for parents
and out-of-school youths by using school resources
• Livelihood skills-training for parents and out-of-school youths
by teachers themselves
 LEARNING FROM THE
EXPERIENCES OF SCHOOLS
AND COMMUNITY
PARTNERS
Here are concrete examples:
1.Dumingaga Central School, Dumingag, Zamboanga
del Sur
Strong school community partnership – Feeding
program was maintained by community donors- Mother
Butler Mission Guild, barangay councils, office of the
Mayor, parents who budgeted, cooked, purchased.
2. Angels Magic Spot and Project REACH, etc.-Pembo Elementary
School, Makati

Pembo Angels Magic Spot (PAMS) were the volunteer environmental

steward –students of Pembo Elementary School while magic spots
were the small dumpsites or empty lots in barangay which were
converted by the students into vegetable gardens from which
members of the barangay could harvest for home supply, the school
for their feeding program or sold them for cash for the purchase of
seedlings and planting of more vegetables.
Another effective practice was Project Revitalize Enthusiasm for
Assistance to Children of Humanity (REACH) where each teacher
adopted one student and acted as hi her mentor for the entire school
year.

Urbanized Kids were ideal students who acted were ideal students
who acted as role models for the students and the PEMBO community.
They cleanest, most well-mannered and most diligent in class.
BOWLS means Brain Operates Well on Loaded Operates Well on
Loaded Stomach. Every recess, children who were selected by
the school as BOWLS beneficiaries due to malnutrition were
provided and bowl of lugaw.

Pera sa Panapon was a weekly trash market where students,

their parents and other members of the community were
invited to bring their recyclable garbage.
SOCIOLOGICAL BASIS IF
SCHOOL-COMMUNITY
PARTNERSHIP
• The functionalist theory states that institutions must
perform their respective functions for the stability of society.
Other institutions must come in if one institution fails to do
its part for the sake of society.
• “it takes a village to educate a child”
• The rearing and education of the child is the primary
obligation of parents. The school, the Church, and other
social institutions come in to assist parents and families to
fulfill their irreplaceable obligation.
• The breakdown of marriages, the demand for both
mother and father to work to meet the demands of a
rising cost of living resulting to less of practically no
more time for parents to spend time with their children.
• Added to these is the increasing number of families
composed of single mothers struggling to raise a family.
With the burden of earning lodged solely on the
shoulders of one parent, single parents struggle to earn
enough to provide for their families.
• This is not to mention the negative effect of
uncontrolled and unregulated use of technology
on the young. While the use of technology has
brought a lot of convenience its uncontrolled and
unregulated use by the tech-savvy kids expose this
kids to all sorts of information not necessarily
favorable for their development.
LEGAL BASES FOR PARENTS
AND COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
• RA 9155, Governance of Basic Education Act, Section E (10)
explicitly states that one of the responsibilities of school heads
is “establishing school and community networks and
encouraging the active participation of teachers organizations,
nonacademic personnel of public schools, and parents-
teachers-community associations.”
• Section 3 (f) of the same Act encourages “local initiatives for
the improvement of schools and learning centers and to
provide the means by which improvements maybe achieved
and sustained.”
• Batas Pambansa Blg. 232, otherwise known as the Education Act of 1982,
Section 7 states that:

Every educational institution shall provide 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 subaroup of the
educational community shall sit and participate in these bodies, the rules
and procedures of which must be approved by them and duly published.
• Another law , RA. 8525, Adopt A School Program Act
provides for school-community partnership. It allows
private entities to assist a public school, whether
elementary, secondary, or tertiary,.. In, but not limited
to, the following faculty development for training and
further educ of facilities; upgrading of existing facilities,
publications and other instructional materials; and
instructional technologies.”
• Even the Philippine Education for All (EFA) 2015 Plan, then a
vision and a holistic program of reforms that aimed to
improve the quality of basic education for every Filipino by
end 2015 likewise states: “Schools shall continue to harness
local resources and facilitate involvement of every sector of
the community in the school improvement process.”
• “Our vision must be more aggressive more committed not
just involving government, non-government agencies but all
stakeholders.”
• R

• A 9155, states that the partnership between school and community also ensures.. That :

1. Educational programs, projects and service take into account the interests of all

members of the community (sec 3, d);

2. The schools and learning centers 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 (sec 3, e); and

3. Local initiatives for the improvement of schools and learning centers are encouraged

and the means by which these improvements may be achieved and sustained are

provided (sec 3, f). So schools and communities function better when they work as a

team.
THANK YOU
&
KEEP SAFE