DepEd Region 8 pioneers Barangay Education Strategic Team project
Director Matugas said that the basic principle of BEST is to achieve the Millennium Development Goals for education by 2015 in line with the Education for All, by involving the local government units in terms of increasing the active participation of parents and the academic communities at large; building local level capacity and improving the quality of and access to basic education.
The objective of the BEST is improve access to primary school for all school age children; to ensure quality teaching, learning and training in both the elementary and secondary levels; and to mobilize all education stakeholders and beneficiaries from private and public sectors, Director Matugas added.
The guiding principle of the Best project is anchored on five guiding principles. The first principle is to utilize proper existing structure of the barangay communities such as the social capital and networks in the construction, management and supervision of schools.
The second principle is to foster high standard of responsibility, accountability, morality and integrity in responding to the needs of the schools, teachers, learners and other education stakeholders.
The third principle is the use of “systematic” view and perspective in dealing with schools, while the fourth, is the use of school-based working contracts to ensure commitment to, sustainability of and sense of ownership of the Project.
The fifth principle is the holistic approach to problem-solving and management based on experiential mode of learning.
Assisting DepEd 8 Director Sol Matugas and DILG Region 8 Director William Paler in the unfolding of the BEST tarp were Secretary Lapus, Leyte Governor Carlos Jericho L. Petilla, Calbayog City Mayor and RDC Chairman Mel Senen Sarmiento.
In attendance were mayors from Leyte headed by LMP Leyte President Mayor Roque Tiu of Tanauan; mayors from Southern Leyte led by Mayor Pete Fustanes of Southern Leyte; Samar mayors led by its President, Calbiga Mayor Melchor Nacario; and mayors from Northern Samar led by Lao-ang Mayor Madeleine Ong; DepEd family in the different schools divisions in Region 8, barangay chairmen, Director Karina Rosa Tiopes of DOT8 and Director Olive Tiu of PIA 8.
The project launching which was held at the DepEd 8 Gym started with a press conference with Secretary Jesli Lapus, SEAMEO-Innotech chairperson and former DepEd Secretary Erlinda Pefianco, and Director Sol Matugas as resource persons and PIA 8 Director Olive P. Tiu as moderator.
The ribbon cutting and unveiling of the STRIVE T&D and LRMD Center Markers followed by the opening of the gallery of Best Practices, were done by the honored guests.
This was followed by the launching and signing of the Book “At Our Best” which Director Matugas said is a compilation of the Best Practices of the Education sector in Region 8. (PIA 
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