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influence DepED to embrace governance reforms in transparency and<br />

accountability, planning and budgeting, and teacher recruitment.<br />

Strategy 3: Participation. The underlying principle is greater<br />

stakeholdership in all key aspects of project management, from situation<br />

analysis (SA), to project implementation (PI), to monitoring and evaluation<br />

(ME). The expected outcomes are: (a) more reliable data being regularly<br />

updated; (b) more accurate assessment of needs; (c) more responsive<br />

budget, programs, projects and activities; and (d) multi-level, multistakeholder<br />

performance review by school (at city level) and by sector<br />

(teacher, principal, parents).<br />

Proactive and Progressive<br />

The school board has definitely become proactive and progressive. To<br />

encourage more participation, the school board launched “Surog-Adal”<br />

which localizes DepEd’s “Brigada Eskwela” and “Adopt-a-School”<br />

programs.<br />

One clear indicator of the board’s new directions is its overwhelming<br />

preference for “soft” infra—textbooks and other instructional materials<br />

—over desks and school buildings. Another indicator is the investment<br />

in teacher training, performance-based incentives and intervention to<br />

unburden teachers of having to do lesson plans daily.<br />

The board supported the preparation and production of ready-made<br />

lesson plans and workbooks. This was done by teachers and supervisory<br />

staff of the Division of City Schools in the summer of 2003. The “proudly<br />

Naga-made” lesson plans <strong>cover</strong> all learning areas in the New Basic<br />

Curriculum from Grades I to VI, while the workbooks focus on the tool<br />

subjects of English, Science and Mathematics. These printed lesson<br />

plans unburdened the teachers from having to write daily lessons,<br />

enabling them to focus on how to teach more effectively in the classroom.<br />

The workbooks provide parents with a tool to bond with their children<br />

and participate more actively in the learning process of their children.<br />

The combined impact of teacher training and ready-made lesson<br />

plans are validated by the results of the initial localized post-test.The<br />

scores show the Naga Division registered an increase of 16 percentage<br />

points, from an average of 35% in July 2002 to 51% in March 2003.<br />

The push for educational reform was anchored on wide<br />

stakeholdership and greater community participation. And this was<br />

carried to the grassroots by the partners under the leadership of a<br />

Reinventing Public Education 125

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