Connecting to School Stakeholders Group for Community Engagement and Collaborative Planning

Ruth C. Pablo

Stakeholder engagement involves engaging with individuals, leveraging tools where they are, encouraging them to work together to accomplish agreed priorities and targets. A professional manager is searching at ways in which the desires and talents of each person will contribute to the benefit of the whole. The school principal is attempting to create an atmosphere in which this will happen in the classroom. As the government is offering compulsory education to all school-aged learners, the school administration must include all stakeholders in the decisionmaking process.

Implementation of stakeholder participation in school management activities and enhancement in results in schools is expected among school heads.

Community stakeholders are in the best position to create goals and to establish options that best address their particular needs. When done properly, stakeholder participation yields clear advantages, including (a) greater insight into the viewpoints and opinions of stakeholders; (b) more rapid and cost-effective decisionmaking; (c) improved stakeholder buy-in, which has played a stronger role all through the decision-making process; (d) Better probability of a positive result by access to more ideas and a greater understanding of the decisions taken; (e) Better trust among stakeholders in education leaders.

Most schools throughout the Philippines understand profoundly the importance and influence of stakeholder participation. Not only does it give way to significant ideas and choices, but it can also lead to better buy-in and deeper trust between partners and stakeholders. The end result is an ore method that is reliable, successful, and harmonious in defining and solving key issues. Armed with a strong understanding of what a good communication environment looks like, more schools can find the potential for immediate change in their accountability activities.

Fortunately, advancements in technology and internet connectivity have resulted in new, more reliable, and more efficient ways to communicate with customers – processes that optimize the gains of interaction on all sides of the equation.

For the school head, decide what is most relevant for you and your partners, and then examine the many choices at your disposal. The chance to update your game has never been as available as it is today.

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The author is Teacher III at Sapang Maragul Integrated School, Tarlac City