On June 15, 2019, ABS-CBN’s Saturday prime time show Maalaala Mo Kaya featured Ryan Habitan Homan, a school principal from San Jose Elementary School in Donsol, Sorsogon for his award-winning reading crusade program called ‘Balsa-Basa’. Homan’s initiative rooted from his…
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) urges teachers to refrain from giving social media-based school projects. These type of school projects uses the number of likes received on social media channels like Facebook as a way to grade…
Wearing a polo, slacks, and a pair of black shoes, it is easy for 75-year-old Benjamin Naoe to be mistaken for a teacher or even the school’s principal as he walks the halls of the University of Pangasinan. But he…
Some years ago, several countries tried to implement the bike sharing concept. It’s similar to a ride-sharing system where you get to hail a ride using an app, yet this one lets you find an open bike to use. Photo…
In the Philippines, it is a sad reality that many schools are not equipped to provide the best education for all the students, mostly because the teachers are overworked and the classrooms are overcrowded with too many children. Coupled with…
A former houseboy who also experienced being a factory worker, security guard, and janitor, recently went viral for graduating Summa Cum Laude, the highest honor any graduate could ever receive! Many were impressed that even though Abzonie Reño spent many…
Public school teachers know how difficult it can be for them to get any funding, with the government imposing a ‘No Collection’ policy and the fact that the budget for most schools is not enough to cover all expenses; thus,…
While there are many public schools across the Philippines that are having trouble with their classrooms or even faculty rooms such as the recent viral story about the teachers using the CRs as faculty rooms, there is this public school…
It is said that education is the key to success – and that has been proven time and again by many graduates who were able to excel in life and had a successful career in their chosen fields. Yet not…
As another school year starts, public school teachers are renewing calls for the government to increase their salaries amid the low pay and poor work conditions that many of them are experiencing across the country. Under the Tranche 4 of…