The HEAD Foundation, in partnership with University of Bristol (UoB), Ateneo de Manila University’s Ateneo Centre for Educational Development (ACED) and Security Bank Foundation (SBFI) SBFI continued their second year of collaboration to deliver the fifth run of Certificate in Education Studies in Leadership (CESL) programme in the Philippines. Held from July to October 2024, this year’s run was hosted at Sacred Heart School – Ateneo de Cebu.
24 school leaders from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao in the Philippines, joined the programmme. Participants discussed leadership models, specifically on transformational leadership and change. CESL alumni joined in as critical friends, facilitated group conversations and shared their experience.
In Cebu, participants visited Visayan Electric Company Inc and Bai Hotel Cebu to learn about innovative practices using technology, training and customer-oriented practices.
Participants presented their Transformational Action Plans (TAP), which showed how they incorporated technology in schools, engaged and enhanced community support, and deployed differentiated teaching and learning methods to deal with pressing issues in their schools, such as low functional literacy and numeracy and poor student performance.
The value of participants’ TAP to address the pressing issues faced by school leaders was highlighted by Dr Jennifer Lopez, Director of the Department of Education National Educators’ Academy of the Philippines and Mr Reynaldo Anto, Education Program Supervisor Human Resources Department from DepEd Region VII, during a roundtable conducted towards the end of the programme. During this closing event, critical friends and representatives from the four organisers shared key takeaways, learning points and critical success factors to achieve sustainable, scalable and replicable transformative leadership and impactful TAPs.
Click here to watch the roundtable.
Click here to watch scenes from the programme.
