Learning as a Way of Life (Day 9)
by Rey Laguda(This is the DepEd USec Rey Laguda's Day 7 of 50-day journey being serialized here with his permission, culled from his Facebook account. - Blogger/owner)
Over the past six years, we have been unceasing in improving management and governance processes that will allow us to better deliver quality education. It is imperative that the organization, at all levels, becomes a learning institution to sustain relevance and effectiveness.
Given our size as a bureaucracy, solutions need to come from many pockets of the organization. In many cases, solutions come at the point of interaction with our learners - the school. Thus, it is important to empower school personnel - teachers empowered to manage their class and facilitate learning, school heads empowered to manage their faculty and school. It is equally important that divisions and regions are empowered to manage the network of schools and the education system within a geographic area. The Department of Education embarked on a program to promote Continuous Improvement (CI) in offices and schools and promote the principles of shared leadership and governance —reminding the schools, divisions, and regions that DepEd is not only the central management in Pasig City.
