It is hard to believe that the BEAM project is coming to an end, and that this will be the 22nd and last BEAM newsletter. It has been a long journey since the first BEAM newsletter came out in April 2002, but nevertheless a journey that has been most productive and satisfying.
It has been a [...]
Usually, when things are user-friendly, people get an impression of its usefulness or appeal without thinking about the effort that goes into its preparation. The BEAM Learning Guides (LeGS) are no exception.
The School Governing Council (SGC) is a system which operates under the principle that education is a shared responsibility. DepEd believes that through the SGC, members of the community, local officials, parents and teachers will all take active roles in the school and thereby share the accountability for the work and actions done.
“2008 has been a fruitful year for the BEAM Project because of your hard work and our stakeholders’ involvement in all the activities we conducted. It is fitting to celebrate the year with the men and women behind the success of BEAM.”
“Now, we can say that out-of-school youth are no longer disadvantaged, because they continue to have access to education through this eSkwela and ICT facility that the formal schools are having.” This was the gist of the closing statement of DepEd XI Regional Director and Philippine Project Manager Susana Teresa B. Estigoy.
One of the highlights during BEAM’s year-end program last December 11-12, 2008 was the announcement of the winner for the much-coveted Employee of the Year Award. Outstanding BEAM staff were nominated and a panel of judges reviewed the performance of the nominees for the past 12 months and its impact on the success of the [...]
As an action for the Basic Education Sector Reform Agenda’s (BESRA) Key Reform Thrust (KRT) 1, BEAM’s School-based Management (SBM) team initiated the development of the School Heads Induction Program (SHIP). The program aims to provide learning resources for school heads on instructional leadership, school management and other relevant topics related to the role and [...]
The Department of Education (DepEd) is implementing the Schools’ First Initiative (SFI), an effort to improve
basic education outcomes through a broadly participated, popular movement featuring a wide variety of initiatives undertaken by individual schools and communities.
Eleven (11) regional supervisors, 27 division supervisors and seven division training coordinators across the ten divisions of DepEd Region XI, attended a two-day Orientation Workshop on School Based Management. The workshop was conducted by BEAM’s Region XI School-Based Management last May 22-23, 2008 at the Regency Inn, Davao City as a result of a series [...]
Budget preparation at division and region levels normally takes five or more days every year; a long and painstaking process. However, with the support of the newly established Human Resource Information System (HRIS) in DepEd Region XI, it was completed in only two days in May this year.
