SCHOOL HEAD IN SCHOOL-BASED MANAGEMENT (SBM)

A school head is a person who is in charge of a school. School head is the one who is
responsible in motivating and ensuring other subordinates execute well their roles especially
provision of quality education. In our current situation where pandemic remains as a big struggle in
promoting quality education a lot of problems arises in the part of students, parents, teachers,
curriculum implementation and a lot of more. As a role of School head, it is his/her responsibility to
address and formulate solutions for the arising problem in school. Furthermore it is not only the
school head who are engage to it, we cannot formulate solutions if we do not know the cause of
each problems that is why it is important that the teachers, parents , students and also the
community leaders to take part on it. School-based management is a strategy to improve education
by transferring significant decision-making authority from state and district offices to individual
schools. In addition, school-based management provides principals, teachers, students and parents
control over the education process by giving them the responsibility for decision about programs or
projects.

Characters:

 Angelica Villanueva as School head (Principal)

 Marvin Laping & Roselyn Belleza as Student council representative
 Pia Catanauan & Nel Esquirdo as Community leaders (Chairman and Secretary)
 Adrian Joe Dating & John Gabriel Esguerra as Teachers
 Joseph Ramos & Joshua Mackay as Parents

SCRIPT
*Meeting via Google meet

Principal: A pleasant afternoon to everyone! Before anything else let me introduce myself first, So I
am Dr. Angelica Villanueva, the principal of this school. Before we start, May I ask if we
are now complete?

Teacher1: Yes Ma’am, I already check our attendance.

Principal: Okay thank you! If then let us start this meeting with a prayer. Mr. Dating can you please
lead the prayer

Teacher2: Yes Ma’am, so everyone let us all vow our head and feel the presence of the Lord.

*PRAYER*
Principal: Thank you Mr. Dating for the prayer.

To formally start this meeting, let me introduce to you that are present here. So we have
our teachers, Mr. Dating and Mr Esguerra, we have also the PTA officers Mr. Ramos and
Mr. Mackay, next to it is our student council officers Mr. Laping and Ms. Belleza and our
especial guess Brgy. Captain Mr. Esquirdo together with his secretary Ms. Pia Catanauan.

So everyone welcome to our school and this meeting!

In this meeting I encouraging everyone to speak up and raise their concerns.

So what’s our meeting all about? What are our agenda for today’s meeting?

We are all aware that we are now in the new normal probably due to the pandemic.
Everything almost changed. Our mode of schooling shifts from the traditional or face to
face to online learning. Due to this, everyone are needs to adapt, and are face to a lot of
challenges and difficulties. Despite of that, I know everyone still wants to achieve a
quality and inclusive education for their children, students and for yourselves.

Therefore, the purpose of this meeting is to identify and discuss the problems that are
encountered by students, parents, teachers and the whole school community and to give
or formulate solutions to it.

I know that we are all struggling, that is why I am encouraging everyone to speak up, we
are all gathered here to discuss it and try to provide solutions for your problems so that
don’t hesitate to say what do you want to say.

So okay without farther ado, let us discuss it now!

Let starts to our parents! By the way I already told the advisers to conduct a PTA meeting
last Monday Am I Right?

Teacher1: Yes ma’am

Principal: So with that I want to ask parents how’s the meeting then? You can open now your mic.

PTA1: Good afternoon ma’am and to everyone. Based on our discussion in our meeting with my co-
parents, there are a lot of students who do not have gadgets that they can use for their online
class.

PTA2: Also, ma’am, some of them have no wifi or internet connection on their homes. Many are
using mobile data that are quite expensive because that are apps that our used are can
consume lot of data.

PTA1: Also, some parents have work so there’s no one left for their child that can help them to
answer their modules and explain some of the lessons especially on asynchronous classes.
PTA2: Another thing is that both parents and their child are not familiar with the apps used for
online classes, they are having a hard time operating it.

Principal: Is anything to be added?

PTA1: None ma’am that’s all

Principal: Okay! Thank you parents, it really alarming to heard. I already take a note for it.

Without farther ado, let us now proceed to our students or our student council
representatives. Btw, If I’m not mistaken I ask your adviser to come up with a survey,
right?

Teacher1: Yes ma’am, I told them to conduct a survey in all year level of our school.

Principal: Okay, Thank you! May I know now the results SSC?

SSC Pres and Secretary: *Presenting the findings of the survey*- The presentation of the
survey includes the name of the difficulties encountered by the
student and the percentage of it.

Principal: Okay! Thank you Student council for that informative results, keep up the good work. As
to the survey it has similarity to the aforementioned by our parents.

Okay then! Let us now proceed to our teachers. I already told you to monitor your
student progress as well as the difficulties that thay are encounter in online class. Can
you tell me what are those?

Teacher1: As for the opening the firstday of class until now, I noticed that of the students cannot
attend to online class due to lack or gadgets and problems with their internet connection.
As what have mentioned by the SC president, they cannot afford to buy one that is why
they chose modular over online class. And aside from that upon checking those who
taking modular class students they are having a hard time to understand the lesson
proper because they don’t have any person who can help them because even their
parents cannot support them. In addition those who are taking online class also having
difficulty in manipulating the apps that we using, because they are not familiar to it.

Teacher2: I would like to add to what sir dating said, some of my students are not able to class but
they try to contact via messenger through the use of free data.

Principal: Okay anything to be added? teachers regarding to their difficulties?

Teacher2: None ma’am

Principal: Okay! Thank you for that, now we are done listening to the problems faced by the parents
and students. I think its time to know also the problems or diffulties of our teacher. I
know we are all affected by all the happening and in the new normal and new delivery
mode of learning. So let me hear yopu teachers.

Teacher1: As you can see we are now in the new mode of learning and this scenario takes through
online. There are several cases wherein a class teachers also face difficulties in finding
stable connection making students unable to learn in that session enforcing the last to
move and do a synchronous classes when it is expected to have synchronous classes
during that day.

Teacher2: Also the teachers are having a hard time contacting their students due to the problem
mention above and go to the students are unable to learn some topics and most of the
time teachers are blame for that reason. Teachers are being criticized and embarrass
online when the students our parents notice something wrong with their modules.

Principal: Ok! Thank you everyone for your responses. Now we have heard all your concerns, from
students, parents and even from the teachers. Please see how this pandemic effects as all.

We can conclude from your responses that your problems, or let us say our problems
with online class is the lack of resources which is necessary for online schooling.

That is why some of our community leaders are present in this meeting, mainly to hear
on your problems and try to help us keep solutions to it. Now, on our Barangay captain
Mr. Esquirdo together with his secretary Ms. Catanauan to tell us what they can do to
resolve the problems we are all have.

BC Mr. Esquirdo: As part of the barangay. I could offer our hall as the venue of distribution of
modules, which will be claimed by the parents of the students. Are we barangay
officials and other barangay stops can help to distribute the modules house-to-
house.

Aside from that, we will also offer scholarship program for those students who are
really in need. We will be giving free tablets to all those students who don’t have
their own gadgets in can’t afford to have one, and also giving a month of support
data for those who have difficulties in sustaining their mobile loads.

Secretary: In the SK chairman also consulted as that they will be giving appliances necessary for
online class.
Principal: That’s great thank you for that offer and help chairman we really appreciate of your
endless kindness not only to our youth but also to our community as a whole

Now we can create projects in partnership with community leaders to address all the
problems raised in this meeting. Our school will have you distributing the gadgets and
other school supplies that you will be given to the students. We will also give you the list
of to students who win who are qualified for the scholarship.

Thank you for helping us to address the problems encountered by the parents teachers
and of course students. To your help we can now ensure that the students. Get a quality
education that they do serve despite all odds.

And thank you everyone parents teachers and students for letting us know the problem
you encountered. It is true that together with the help of everyone even the hardest
battle or challenges can be resolved.

I think we can formally end this meeting by the closing prayer.

Let us vow our head and feel the presence of God

*PRAYER*

-END OF THE MEETING-