School-Based Management (SBM) is a strategy to improve education by transferring significant decision-making authority from the Central Office to individual schools. SBM provides principals, teachers, students, and parents greater control over the education process by giving them responsibility for decisions about the budget, personnel, and the curriculum. Through the involvement of teachers, parents, and other community stakeholders in these key decisions, SBM can create more effective learning environments for children. (https://www2.ed.gov/pubs/OR/ConsumerGuides/baseman.html)

The School-Based Management Portal has four different components:

A. Leadership and Governance

A network of leadership that provides the vision and direction to the education system, making it relevant and responsive to the contexts of diverse communities.

B. Curriculum and Instruction

The learning system collaboratively developed and continuously improved, anchored on the community and learner’s contexts and aspirations.

C. Accountability and Continuous Improvement

A clear, transparent, inclusive and responsive accountability system is in place, collaboratively developed by community stakeholders, which monitors expected and actual performance, continually addresses the gaps, and ensures a venue for feedback and redress.

D. Management of Resources

Resources are collectively and judiciously mobilized and managed with transparency, effectiveness and efficiency.

Source: https://sites.google.com/deped.gov.ph/pes/sbm

The National Greening Program (NGP) was launched last February 01, 2011 by virtue of Executive Order No. 26. NGP aims to plant 1.5 Billion trees in 1.5 Million hectares of public land in the country in six years, starting from 2011 to 2016. It promotes reforestation, reduces poverty, promotes food security, creates alternative livelihoods, and enhances climate change mitigation and adaptation. In April 2020, under the Duterte administration, the Department of Agriculture (DA) implemented the nationwide “Plant, Plant, Plant Program” or “Ahon Lahat, Pagkaing Sapat (ALPAS) Laban sa Covid-19” program to benefit farmers, fishers, and consumers by providing them quality seeds, fertilizers, and appropriate technical assistance.

Concepts and ideas about agriculture were taught in elementary schools, and have been part of DepEd’s curriculum for many years now. However, students, especially those who come from highly urbanized areas, have some form of difficulty in identifying and appreciating different vegetables, fruits, and other plants. The “Gulayan sa Paaralan” program aims to solve this problem by having them more engaged in these kinds of activities.

This year, Don Alejandro Roces Sr. Science Technology High School, with the initiative of the new principal, Dr. Quirino P. Sapon Jr, and with the assistance of the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) and Dr. Roger Tamondong, Education Program Specialist (EPP and TLE) from the Schools Division of Quezon City, participated in the Gulayan sa Paaralan program, collectively known as “Roces Farmville”. --- Gulayan documentation Committee (Mrs. Desiree T. Castillo, Mr. Dennis Alfred Pascual, Ms. Melody Zafe, Mr. Alfred Macahusay, Mrs. Marinel Peralta & Mrs. Jacaqueline B. Decena)

he Procesong damayan brings coordination between the educators, partners and stakeholders to focus their point and challenge redound for the benefit of our school, learners, and the Community. - Dr. John M. Rosas