DepEd Southern Leyte launches partnership project

MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 24 (PNA) – The Department of Education has launched a banner project in Southern Leyte to enhance partnership with different stakeholders in carrying out education program.

DepEd Eastern Visayas Regional Director Ramir Uytico acknowledged the full support given by both education and government officials along with other stakeholders in the implementation of Project Ugmad, the local term for cultivate.

The department’s Southern Leyte division launched the banner project on Thursday night.

"If there is collaboration and shared decision-making among educational stakeholders, our problems would no longer be about those children from those schools. It would now become our problems, our schools, and our learners,” Uytico said in his speech at the Southern Leyte Coliseum in Maasin City.

“The presence of your local chief executives…is very empowering. I am very happy to know that we share the same vision and dedication to put the needs of every child at the center of everything that we do," he added.

Project Ugmad is just one of 13 division banner projects under Project LEAD (Lead, Empower, Achieve, through Data-driven Decisions) in the region under the new leadership of the regional office.

Lyna Gayas, senior education program specialist and division information officer-designate in Southern Leyte division, said 25 banner projects from 25 banner schools are also launched under Project Ugmad.

As cited in its project proposal, Project UGMAD Southern Leyte “aims at achieving high quality learning outcomes in Southern Leyte through empowering and supporting the schools and the learning centers in introducing and implementing instructional innovations where the learners and other school stakeholders are actively engaged.”

It added that each of the 297 elementary schools, 41 secondary schools, and 182 learning centers “shall implement a banner project wherein their learners and other stakeholders will actively and meaningfully engage themselves in the implementation of the K to 12 Curriculum.”

The project focuses on innovation in the contextualization of the lesson, its implementation, and assessment, along with classroom structures and management of learning resources. (PNA)
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