ATLU-BOLA HS EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP IN THE PANDEMIC TIME

Noel Nathaniel C. Soriano

Partnership has always been effective in the realization of an endeavour especially in uncertain times when fundamental requirements to accomplish such a task are likely posing possibility of failure. In the case of Atlu-Bola HS of the Division of Mabalacat City, the learning community is tied up with various options all for the continuity of the teaching and learning processes.

Primarily, the school is constantly linked for support to SDO-Mabalacat for DepEd updates and issuances relative to the teaching and learning programs which are embodied in the school’s Learning Continuity Plan. However, for other human and logistical supports there are options laid in the dispensation of the school by which these options include partnership with Baranagy Atlu-Bola for mobilization of the learning packages and resource generation.

Considering the IATF guidelines on safety and health protocols where the significant considerations is the protection of the learning community from breach of infection, the school entered into a MOU for the distribution and retrieval of the selflearning kits or modules with the barangay committee on education all for the purpose of minimizing physical exposure and contact. The school, on the other hand, established its platform using both the social media and the usual school community bulletin for the dissemination of the schedule of the distribution and retrieval of the said modules.

Other than this significant partnership and as stipulated in the MOU, when in the case that the school monthly MOOE cash advance cannot likely accommodate additional needs for health related supplies, the school can request for the periodic maintenance for disinfecting the school facilities and for the generation of essential health related resources such in the forms of alcohol, sanitizers, face masks and shields, hand soaps and the like.

Furthermore, in consideration to the advocacy of keeping the health of the learning community in tough shape, the partnership extends its support in the construction and repair of school hand wash facilities and toilets. While other stakeholders of the school belonging to the well-to-do families in the Northville 16 specifically those with business enterprises in the area normally support the school with donations varying from financial to material resources.

This partnership has rendered upon the school a well-defined teaching and learning support system that highlighted the cultural core values being emphasized by the Department of Education over the times. The idea of sharing initiatives and innovations as well as resources can eventually provide the optimum action for a partner school to relatively rise up to sustainable developments.

DEPED clearly advocates the inclusion of the local government units in the planning and development of the learning community considering their indispensable roles as partakers of initiatives and innovations for the sustainability of the teaching and learning processes especially in the uncertain and trying times when the school may be needing most of the help it can get.

ABHS-Barangay Atlu-Bola Partnership has proven the popular saying. “It takes a whole village to educate a child.”

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The author is School Head at Atlu Bola High School