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USAID-DepED partnership for education (Louie Rodaje, EQuALLS) USAID-Petron school in Maguindanao (Angel Saceda, EQuALLS) BBF president reads donated books to Mindanao school children (Angel Saceda, EQuALLS) Training of teachers in basic computer literacy in partnership with Microsoft USAID - National Book Store tie-up (Angel Saceda, EQuALLS) US Ambassador Kenney in Maguindanao school (EQuALLS)
US Ambassador Kenney at the EQuALLS youth peace camp (EQuALLS) USAID in Brigada Eskwela (Louie Rodaje, EQuALLS) Student in new classroom (EQuALLS) EQuALLS book shopping center in Cotabato (Louie Rodaje, EQuALLS) Free books for Zamboanga teachers (Angel Saceda, EQuALLS) Book shopping by Mindanao teachers (Louie Rodaje, EQuALLS)
DepED ARMM Library Hub launch (Louie Rodaje, EQuALLS) Zamboanga students with new books (EQuALLS) Mindanao grade 1 students reading (EQuALLS) Mindanao students reading (EQuALLS) US Peace Corps English Language Camp (Angel Saceda, EQuALLS) Training of science teachers (Louie Rodaje, EQuALLS)
Training of math teachers (EQuALLS) Training of instructional managers (EQuALLS) Mindanao teachers try out new computer skills (EQuALLS) North Cotabato teacher mentors in information and communications technology skills (EQuALLS) PTCA planning education projects (EQuALLS) Youth plan education projects (EQuALLS)
Out-of-school youth learner (EQuALLS) Out-of-school youth learners (EQuALLS) OSYs in Community Learning Center (EQuALLS) OSY with carpentry certificate (EQuALLS) OSY carpentry training graduates (EQuALLS) OSYs pickling seaweed (EQuALLS)
OSY masonry trainees (EQuALLS) OSY in electronics repair shop (EQuALLS) OSY in own electronics repair shop (EQuALLS) OSYs now sorting sardines (EQuALLS) EQuALLS Photo EQuALLS Photo
A madrasah administrator from Mindanao makes plans for her school at USAIDs Madrasah Improvement Planning Workshop on December 4, 2009 in Davao City. (EQuALLS2) USAID Education Chief Tom Crehan initiates Lanao del Norte out-of-school youth into an advanced skills training scholarship program on December 7, 2009. (EQuALLS2) USAID and Microsoft trained 200 teacher-mentors from Zamboanga del Sur on basic computer use for better teaching on December 7, 2009 in Ozamiz City. (EQuALLS2) Officers of one of six Parent-Teacher Associations from Zamboanga City received a grant from USAID for their education project on December 18, 2009. (EQuALLS2) 928 out-of-school children and youth from Mindanao graduated from USAID’s alternative basic education programs on December 14, 2009 in Koronadal City. (EQuALLS2)
LGU officials, community leaders, and Parents-Teachers Association members of Lutayan, Sultan Kudarat identify indicators of the progress of their achievement of their community education goals during their orientation and training on the Community Education Report Card System under EQuALLS2 on January 25-26, 2010 in Koronadal City. (EQuALLS2) USAID Office of Education Chief Tom Crehan (center, half-kneeling) poses with (to his left and right) Philippine Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Region XII Director Edwin Gatinao and Munai Mayor Muammar Maquiling, and the youth Plumbing and Masonry skills training graduates of EQuALLS2 project of USAID from Munai, Lanao del Norte, on January 25, 2010 in Iligan City. (EQuALLS2) Elementary teachers from 10 municipalities in the ARMM and Regions IX and XII who were trained on basic computer use under EQuALLS2 project of USAID met in Davao City on January 21, 2010 to plan their next moves, which include scaled-up mentoring of other teachers. With them (third from left) is Mir Tillah of the Office of Education of USAID. (EQuALLS2) USAID Office of Education Chief Tom Crehan introduced the EQuALLS2 project to new Philippine Department of Education Region XII Director Isabelita Borres on January 12, 2010 in Koronadal City. (EQuALLS2) Former US Amb. Kristie Kenney talks to out-of-school youth arc welding trainees of EQuALLS2 project of USAID in Zamboanga City in her last trip to Mindanao on January 8, 2010. She is well remembered for her eagerness to reach out to all, especially to the youth. (EQuALLS2) 350 Out-of-school youth from Upi, Maguindanao graduated from EQuALLS2 basic literacy program of USAID on January 16, 2010. (EQuALLS2)
USAID’s EQuALLS2 project and its partner, Petron Foundation turned over a new two-classroom building to Saliao Elementary School in Esperanza, South Cotabato on February 9, 2010. (EQuALLS2) (Left) U.S. Commissioner on International Religious Freedom Imam Talal Eid interacted with 20 in- and out-of-school Mindanao youth leaders of different faiths on February 13, 2010 in Cotabato City. (EQuALLS2) Newly-appointed Secretary of the Department of Education in ARMM Dr. Hamid A. Barra (left) was briefed on USAID’s EQuALLS2 project on February 24, 2010 in Davao City by USAID/Philippines Office of Education chief Tom Crehan (center). Looking on is Marcial Salvatierra from USAID’s EQuALLS2 project. (EQuALLS2) Sixty Region XII school officials discussed peace concepts in a forum that USAID’s EQuALLS2 project held on February 10, 2010 in Koronadal City to support the Department of Education’s thrust to integrate peace education in the basic education curriculum. (EQuALLS2) School children and teachers of Tuyan Elementary School in Malapatan, Sarangani Province in front of their new USAID-Petron School inaugurated by U.S. Charge d’Affaires Leslie Bassett with Petron Foundation Executive Director Marilou Erni last March 5, 2010. (EQuALLS2) A graduate of USAID’s Building Wiring Installation Training receives a tool set from USAID/Philippines Education Officer Shannon Stone and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority Region XII Director Edwin Gatinao (right) during graduation rites last March 3, 2010 in Iligan City. (EQuALLS2)
(Front, L-R) Department of Education Region XII Director Isabelita Borres, U.S. Charge d’Affaires Leslie Bassett, Sarangani Province Governor Miguel Dominguez, Petron Foundation Executive Director Marilou Erni, and USAID/Philippines Mission Director Elzadia Washington formally open the new USAID-Petron two-classroom building in Tuyan Elementary School in Malapatan, Sarangani on March 5, 2010. (EQuALLS2) An out-of-school youth educator from Sulu shares what she learned after being trained to administer a survey for tracking non-formal education outcomes on March 10-11, 2010 in Zamboanga City under USAID’s EQuALLS2 project. (EQuALLS2) USAID/Philippines Office of Education Project Management Specialist Aivan Amit at a seminar on March 18, 2010 in Manila that shared the impact of alternative learning programs for out-of-school youth under USAID’s EQuALLS2 project on peace building in Mindanao. (EQuALLS2)
With support from USAID’s EQuALLS project, Mindanao communities learn how to track their education improvements in their localities with their Barangay (Village) Education Report Cards. (EQuALLS2) U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Leslie Bassett and U.S. Peace Corps Director Sonia Derenoncourt award certificates of completion to participants of Tudlo Mindanao’s 2010 English Language Camp in Tagaytay City. Madrasah (Arabic school) administrators and parent-teacher associations from Mindanao learned from USAID’s EQuALLS2 project how to prepare education project proposals and manage resources held on April 21-25, 2010. Philippine Department of Education Region IX officials worked with USAID’s EQuALLS2 project on a guide to teacher mentoring, which some Mindanao schools cited as having contributed to their students’ higher National Achievement Test scores, on April 15-16, 2010 in Zamboanga City. Teachers from Midsayap, North Cotabato whom USAID’s EQuALLS2 project earlier trained in basic computer use shared their skills with other teachers in several “echo” trainings that they themselves organized at their USAID-equipped Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) Hubs from April 19 to 30, 2010.
Out-of-school youth educators from Mindanao create a model of a circulatory system out of plastic water bottles during an EQuALLS2 training to enhance their content knowledge and teaching skills on April 30 to May 5, 2010 in Zamboanga del Sur. (EQuALLS2) The Bilal Bin Rabah Islamic Center madrassah in Sarangani was one of almost 800 schools in Mindanao that USAID assisted to help prepare for the coming schoolyear during DepED’s Brigada Eskwela (National Schools Maintenance Week) on May 24-28, 2010. (EQuALLS2) USAID, under its EQuALLS2 Project, continue to fine-tune its teacher mentoring program with the Department of Education in May 2010, with the help of public elementary school teachers from Region IX to improve basic education in conflict areas in Mindanao. (EQuALLS2) A hundred teachers from 20 public elementary schools in Malapatan, Sarangani choose from 10,000 books for supplementary reading materials they need to help improve teaching and student learning in USAID’s EQuALLS2 Mobile Book Fair on May 20, 2010. (EQuALLS2) Out-of-school youth help prepare USAID-assisted schools in Mindanao conflict areas for school opening during Department of Education’s Brigada Eskwela (National Schools Maintenance Week) on May 24-28, 2010. (EQuALLS2) USAID’s EQuALLS2 and SHIELD projects launched their partnership to provide schoolchildren and parents basic health information and services at the Bilaan Elementary School in Talipao, Sulu during Brigada Eskwela on May 24-28, 2010. (EQuALLS2)
On June 15, 2010 in Zamboanga City, USAID’s EQuALLS2 Project oriented 18 out-of-school youth from the ARMM and Zamboanga Peninsula on USAID’s new scholarship program for higher-level skills training and one-year college education for 750 youth, for which they qualified. Madrasah (Arabic school) teachers in the ARMM play a game of passing on the message in a USAID-EQuALLS2 Project training on English proficiency on June 1-6, 2010 in Davao City. USAID Philippines Education Officer Shannon Stone helped repaint the Zamboanga City madrasah (Arabic school) Islamic Institute of the Philippines for its June 15, 2010 opening after USAID turned over to the school $1,000 worth of construction materials for classroom repair and equipment on June 11, 2010. USAID Bureau for East Asian Affairs Director Frederic Scott turned over $1,000 worth of audio-visual teaching equipment and 265 reference books to the madrasah (Arabic school) Hadji Mahmud Isa Jammang Philippine Islamic College Foundation in Zamboanga City during his visit to Mindanao on June 11, 2010. Teachers from the ARMM read fresh copies of USAID’s EQuALLS2 Project newsletter on Mindanao basic education developments at the ARMM Education Congress on June 4-5, 2010 in Cagayan de Oro City.
USAID trains 50 community members in Lutayan, Sultan Kudarat to track education improvement in their villages using Barangay Education Report Cards. USAID supports the Department of Education’s National Drug Education Program by reproducing the DepED-developed teacher training modules on drug abuse prevention education and helps fund the trainings such as the one that took place on July 15, 2010. USAID works with the Department of Education to hone the math teaching skills of 61 madrasah (Arabic school) teachers from Mindanao conflict areas to improve their students’ competitiveness. 50 Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) elementary science teachers create and assemble low-cost science equipment using local materials for use in classroom experiments in a USAID supported training to increase access to quality basic education in Mindanao conflict areas. USAID Philippines Education Chief Tom Crehan met the 42 out-of-school youth from Mindanao conflict areas who will receive USAID scholarships for higher-level livelihood skills training college tuition under USAID’s Education Quality and Access for Learning and Livelihood Skills (EQuALLS2) Project.
USAIDs EQuALLS2 Project awarded laptop computers on September 17, 2010 to Mindanao schools with excellent ICT teacher-trainers to enable them to train more teachers. USAIDs EQuALLS2 Project turned over on September 25, 2010 more than 40,000 copies of teaching modules on drug abuse prevention to the national government, for use by the 542 elementary school teachers, administrators, and counseling and health personnel whom the project trained to instruct 100,000 students in Mindanao. A hundred elementary school teachers from Basilan and Tawi-Tawi provinces in Mindanao shopped for the books they need for improved teaching at USAID’s EQuALLS2 Project book center in Zamboanga City on September 23-24, 2010. USAIDs EQuALLS2 Project taught villagers from Basilan province on September 15, 2010 how to track their education progress using the Village Education Report Card. U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission Leslie Bassett (left, in blue) inaugurated on September 8, 2010 a two-classroom school building in Marawi, Mindanao funded by USAID and local petroleum giant Petron Corporation, under the EQuALLS2 Project. USAID and Mindanao local government heads strengthened their partnership to improve basic education in the archipelago, at a Mayors Forum organized by USAID’s EQuALLS2 Project on September 18, 2010 in Davao City.
USAID oriented 82 ARMM villagers on the Barangay Education Report Card system for tracking community education progress on November 4-6, 2010 in Koronadal City. USAID turned over 16 computer sets to three school districts in Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat on November 6, 2010. 39 ARMM education stakeholders analyzed USAID-assisted out-of-school youth progress data and planned next steps on November 11, 2010 in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi. 389 Out-of-school youth graduated from alternative basic education and livelihood skills training programs on November 4 and 15, 2010 in Koronadal City. (At right in photo is USAID Philippines Acting Education Chief Shannon Stone awarding completion certificates to the graduates.) Turnover of two USAID-assisted madaris in Malapatan, Sarangani on November 17, 2010. USAID Philippines Acting Education Chief Shannon Stone helped some of 90 teachers from 51 schools in ARMM shop for 40,000 books from USAID and Brother’s Brother Foundation on November 18-19, 2010 in Cotabato City.
USAID trained fifty Basilan villagers to support education using the Barangay (Village) Education Report Card on December 6-7, 2010 in Zamboanga City. More than 100 teachers from 32 schools in Central Mindanao shopped for over 128,000 books that they can use for improved teaching at a USAID organized Book Fair on December 6, 2010 in Koronadal City. More than 300 out-of-school children and youth in Central Mindanao graduated from  a USAID supported alternative learning and livelihood skills training programs on December 7, 2010 in North Cotabato. 75 Out-of-school youth from Maguindanao and Central Mindanao were awarded certificates of completion of short-term livelhood skills training courses under USAID’s Scholarship Program in ceremonies held on December 9, 2010 in Central Mindanao. 62 Education stakeholders from Basilan province were trained in the Education in Emergencies program with DepED-ARMM, USAID, and UNICEF on December 10-12, 2010 in Zamboanga City. Over 240 public elementary school and madrasah teachers from Mindanao were trained on vocabulary development, fluency, and reading comprehension in USAID’s EQuALLS2 Project’s Reading to Learn Training on December 18-21, 2010 in Zamboanga City.
73 Out-of-school youth educators shopped for 40,000 reference books from USAID partner Brother’s Brother Foundation at the USAID book center in Cotabato City on January 18, 2011. USAID Acting Education Chief Shannon Stone demonstrated effective teacher feedback to 93 Sulu school administrators who learned enhanced instructional practices for better teacher support on January 22-23, 2011 in Zamboanga City. USAID Education representative Aivan Amit facilitates a discussion among 33 out-of-school youth, parents, employers, and local government officials on the key elements of successful workforce development programs for better out-of-school youth support on January 25, 2011 in Zamboanga City. 571 of the 747 villagers from the impoverished farming village of Bungcog in Upi, Maguindanao province took time out from their work to bond and discuss the key education indicators that they will track during their Village Education Assembly on January 25, 2011. USAID Acting Education Chief Shannon Stone helped 140 out-of-school youth educators from ARMM shop for 22,405 reference books from USAID partner Brother’s Brother Foundation at the USAID book center in Zamboanga City on January 27, 2011. USAID Acting Education Chief Shannon Stone reads to Grades 1-4 students from the HMIJ madrasah in Zamboanga City. Brother’s Brother Foundation donated 100 books and Newell Rubbermaid donated 100 pencils which USAID turned over to the school together with English educational CDs on January 27, 2011.
USAID Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) for Education Specialist Tony Bloome visited EQuALLS2 ICT-trained schools and partners on February 3-4, 2011. USAID Philippines Mission Director Gloria Steele visited 150 USAID-supported teacher-trainers in Zamboanga City on February 11, 2011 USAID updated DepED-ARMM on EQuALLS2 Project achievements on February 14, 2011 in Davao City, and DepED Region XII on February 15, 2011 in Koronadal City. USAID’s EQuALLS2 Project trained Sarangani government officials on February 17, 2011 to use the Education Report Card system to track out-of-school youth development. USAID’s EQuALLS2 Project cited out-of-school youth educators with the best session guides at the February 22-23, 2011 Instructional Managers’ Summit in Davao City. USAID’s EQuALLS2 Project trained madrasah administrators on organizational development on February 23-25, 2011 to provide better education opportunities for Muslim youth.
Local government partners and the development, academic, and research communities discussed on April 6, 2011 in Makati City the findings from the study by USAID’s EQuALLS2 Project on what makes out-of-school youth workforce development programs. Twenty-seven out-of-school youth from Central Mindanao graduated from a USAID skills training and one-year college scholarship on April 11, 2011 in Koronadal City. On April 13-16, 2011, EQuALLS2 trained 80 educators and Local Government Units (LGUs) and Parents-Teachers Association (PTA) officials from Lutayan, Midsayap, and Datu Saudi Ampatuan to use the Barangay Education Report Card to track education improvement. Seventy teachers, school heads, and Department of Education (DepEd) supervisors from conflict-affected Basilan and Sulu provinces and from Zamboanga City, completed the Whole School Reading Program of USAID’s EQuALLS2 Project on April 16-19, 2011 in Zamboanga City. USAID’s EQuALLS2 Project upgraded the Information and Communications and Technology (ICT) skills of its 48 top ICT teacher-trainers from Isabela City and Olutanga, Zamboanga Sibugay on April 25-29 in Zamboanga City. Eighty out-of-school children and youth from Mindanao demonstrated the knowledge and skills they gained from USAID’s alternative basic education and livelihood skills training programs in a friendly competition on April 26, 2011 in General Santos City. Photo shows Roldan Castanares, 21, from Malapatan, Sarangani Province in the arc welding competition.
On May 9-12, 2011 in General Santos City, USAID trained 105 municipal and village officials, Department of Education officers, Parent-Teacher Association leaders, school heads, and teachers from Upi, Maguindanao on the use of Village Education Report Cards to track local education progress. 124 teachers from 47 USAID-supported public elementary schools in Central Mindanao shopped from among 73,000 books on May 10-12, 2011 to improve student reading and learning. Petron Foundation engaged the USAID-trained out-of-school youth Carpentry Guild in Midsayap, North Cotabato to manufacture, at a contract cost of $28,000, student chairs for classrooms that USAID and Petron are jointly constructing in Mindanao. Leroy Marshall (right) and other USAID mission staff helped prepare madaris (Muslim schools) alongside with community members in Mindanao on May 24-25, 2011 for their school opening in June. Trainors from Ateneo de Zamboanga University and Western Mindanao State University spearheaded a reading and writing skills training for 50 teachers from conflict-affected Maguindanao province in Mindanao on May 28-31, 2011 in Pagadian City to further improve student reading skills in the region, after the percentage of non-readers in 12 USAID-assisted local schools dropped from up to 63% of the school’s students to only 1-7%, and slow readers, from up to 73% to only 25-39%.
Parents from EQuALLS2-supported Parent-Teacher Associations in the ARMM and Regions IX and XII learned best practices in education improvement from USAID’s EQuALLS2 Project on October 18-19, 2011 in Davao City. The Sahaya Integrated Islamic Learning Center in Patikul, Sulu, represented by its school administrator Joel Alamia (right), was awarded a Permit to Operate by Department of Education ARMM’s Bureau of Madrasah Education, represented by Usec. Abdulbashir Abdulatif, at EQuALLS2’s culminating event for its madrasah assistance program on October 8, 2011 in Davao City. 206 out-of-school youth graduated from EQuALLS2 Workforce Development trainings on Rubber Technology, Plant/Vegetative Propagation and Techniques, and Fish Processing, Preservation, and Marketing on October 11, 2011 in Koronadal City, South Cotabato. USAID/Philippines Office of Education Program Management Specialist Aivan Amit turned over a two-classroom school building funded by USAID and Petron Foundation on October 12, 2011 in Tantangan, South Cotabato. Parents from EQuALLS2-supported Parent-Teacher Associations in the ARMM and Regions IX and XII learned best practices in education improvement from USAID’s EQuALLS2 Project on October 18-19, 2011 in Davao City. Department of Education Region XII Director Isabelita Borres shared how she institutionalized the EQuALLS2-supported teacher professional development program in her region among other best practices at an EQuALLS2 forum on October 26, 2011 in Makati City.
Department of Education Secretary Bro. Armin Luistro (extreme left), US Ambassador Harry Thomas (center), and USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia Gregory Beck (extreme right) viewed the winning entries from the  painting competition participated by EQuALLS2-supported schools in Mindanao during USAID’s 50th anniversary celebration at the Mall of Asia on November 4, 2011. 184 EQuALLS2-supported out-of-school children and youth from Mindanao conflict-affected areas took Department of Education’s Accreditation and Equivalency test on November 6, 2011 to earn certificates equivalent to grade school or high school diplomas that would enable them to go back to school or pursue better jobs. At a forum on USAID’s EQuALLS2 program in Quezon City on November 15, 2011, Department of Education Undersecretary for Programs and Projects Yolanda Quijano said the agency will sustain the best practices and lessons learned from the EQuALLS2 programs as they work towards improving education in Mindanao. USAID and Petron Foundation completed this December the construction of five two-classroom school buildings in conflict hotspots Sulu and Basilan provinces.  Shown in the photo is one of the school buildings at Port Holland Central Elementary School in Maluso, Basilan that was constructed with the assistance of the Joint Special Operations Task Force – Philippines and the Philippine Navy.

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