Schools as Communities

Cely Rose P. Vasquez

Community Schools Partnerships offer communities the opportunity to support the needs of children and families with an intentional, enhanced and supported academic, social and emotional health experience in the school setting as well as at other local agency and community-based sites.

Managing a school is a hard to accomplish task. It has its share of problems that must be solved. To address this problem, our school is bridging the gap between the academic and practical world. With the proper coordination, everyone is given this responsibility.

We are developing leaders that will be effective for the school and in the community. This is transformational leadership.

This is what our principal does. She focuses on staff empowerment rather than directly controlling all aspects of school functioning, she fosters greater professional growth with our faculty.

On a typical school day, situations of varying degrees of importance happen. Some situations might call for involvement from a senior school administrator or other member s of the faculty.

Our school continues to grow with the help of our general parents -teachers officers and members, barangay officials, policemen and supreme student government officers and members. As it is, several people are acting and helping on the schools behalf. With consistent meetings that are held, each makes their contribution on judgements about what school policy should be.

This is school based management. There is active control of all aspects of the school, including school activities, analysis of curriculum and others. The school is a community not defined by evaluation and instructional leadership, but by the principles, beliefs and values that bind it together.

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The author is Teacher II at San Antonio Elementary School, Guagua West

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