Level of Implementation of School to School Partnership Program of the Department of Education in the Division of Quezon: Basis for a Proposed Program Enhancement

Abstract

The study assesses the level of implementation of school to school partnership program of the Department of Education Division of Quezon in Build, Sustain, and Conclude Stages. This also includes the challenges encountered by leader and partner school during the implementation, and the intervention measures used to address these challenges. The descriptive-survey method was employed while questionnaire was used as main data gathering tool. The study reveals that majority of the respondents were SSP coordinators, female, with the age of 36-40, with Master’s Units, and have one year of service as SSP Coordinators in their school. The respondents are in barrio school, under medium category, monograde, and located on far flung areas. In addition, the school-to-school partnership program was partially implemented and now in Sustain stage. This was evident on the indicators such as select a partner school, communicate with partner school and initiate partnership and make a formal agreement with the partner school. Moreover, the challenges are rarely encountered in Program Implementation. Common challenges were the school location, time frame, budget or funding and monitoring and evaluation. However, intervention measures like conduct activities with accurate time on task, making equal distribution of undertakings like planning, problem solving and action research and proper documentation were fairly often employed to address the challenges.