When the pandemic is over, the children of Barangay Small Margus in Glan, Sarangani Province will have an exciting school campus to go back to. The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the once colorful grounds of Nicomedes Tolentino Elementary School in Barangay Small Margus, municipality of Glan, Sarangani Province, into a bleak and grim sight after it was utilized as an isolation facility. The school campus became inaccessible to learners and teachers, leaving their classrooms, gardens, and parks unattended. Temporarily, the Barangay Council provided a small building for the school to use as an office and as a place to conduct their alternative learning delivery modalities. Instead of being discouraged by the absence of a school campus, the school principal, Corinna Falgui, saw an opportunity to document the school's existing practices, display the outputs in a make-shift showroom, and invite validators to assess their school-based management (SBM) level of practice. On February 19, 202

The Alternative Learning System Senior High School (ALS-SHS) was launched virtually yesterday via DepEd Tayo Facebook pages. Asst. Regional Director Atty. Fiel Y. Almendra hands the Certificate of Appreciation to Melinda A. Rivera in behalf of Asst. Sec. G.H. Ambat. ALS-SHS is being piloted in SOCCSKSARGEN involving several schools in four school divisions in the region, namely Cotabato Province, General Santos City, Sultan Kudarat, and Sarangani. In Sarangani, James L. Chiongbian National Trade School, Glan School of Arts and Trades, and Malandag National High School were among the few schools which offered ALS to Senior High School learners for the first time. Assitant Secretary in ALS G.H. Ambat congratulated SOCCSKSARGEN for the successful pilot implementation and said that DepED is hopeful to scale it up to national level so that ALS Senior High School may also be offered in all regions of the country. To highlight how the ALS program helps many of our young people who cannot

DepEd Sarangani continues to recognize the outstanding implementation of the kindergarten program in all schools in the Division as it announces the winners of the Model Kindergarten Program Implementation Malungon Central Elementary School SPED Center receives a smart TV set courtesy of the Provincial Governor's Office. Photo from the Facebook Profile of   Des LourkcaDe Malungon Central Elementary School SPED Center bagged this year's top prize among Central schools, while Rudes Elementary School in Maitum took the first spot among non-Central schools. In order to be considered a model implementer, the school has to showcase excellence in the following areas: curriculum, learning resources and instructional materials, learning space and environment, and assessment result recording.  The complete list of Model Kindergarten Program Implementation are as follows: Central Schools Malungon Central Elementary School SPED Center Glan Padidu Central Elementary School Pangyan Central E