M E S S A G E
It has been a pleasant feeling working with DepEd Bataan people. Their competence and emotional fortitude has driven the Division of Bataan to accomplish the best for CY 2012. Despite the difficult tasks and demanding decisions that the Office has come across with, teamwork and quality performances of everyone have prevailed. The slogan of the regional office, “Collaborating with Leaders; caring for our learners�, has worked well for this province. Bataan has negative problems with regards to school buildings, classroom furniture, blackboards and other school needs. Staff development has been an added feature of the provincial government in its advocacy for quality education. Every teacher, every school head who is in need of upgrading his/ her craft in teaching/management is granted scholarship through the Gurong Iskolar Program of the Provincial School Board Fund. The good Governor of Bataan has a firm conviction that if the mentor or leader excels, the mentees would be greatly influenced and be harnessed to the maximum. Response to the Gurong Iskolar Program has been overwhelming that a good number of school heads and teachers are now enjoying their graduate and post graduate studies for free. Indeed, linkages with the different stakeholders catapulted this small division to a huge place in the heart of Philippine education. Culture of excellence shall continue to manifest in the Division of Bataan in touching and shaping young lives. We are committed to facilitate the achievement of the content and performance standards set by DepEd or even go beyond them, to transform the mediocre to excellent lifelong learning. Our endeavor in this Division is compared with a simple pulley with a load on the other end of the rope. If we make an input of a good quality of force on one end, the opposite end with a load will rise. But if we pull the rope with little or poor level of force, the load will not be lifted a bit. In much the same way, the Division of Bataan will continue to exert the best teamwork, the best quality assurance, and the best management ever to keep Bataan shining in the field of education.