School leadership
How a school head leads and manages a public school under current DepEd policy: school-based management, school planning, lesson planning and assessment, learning action cells, finance, people and change.
Series on this topic: Teacher workload (10); Career progression (12); Supreme Court cases (12); Administrative cases and grievances (11).
How School Heads Plan Teaching Loads Under DO 5
DepEd's Toolkit in three steps: who teaches what, 360 minutes a day at most, advisers first, designations last, senior high loads and the eSF7 for SY 2026-2027.
DepEd 2026 Teacher Workload Survey: What Teachers Said
DepEd's May 2026 survey: 60.95% of respondents attended an orientation, 62.65% said they could focus adequately on teaching, and many mixed up task types.
Admin Tasks Off Teachers: DO 2 and School Support Staff
DO 2, s. 2024 gives admin work to school heads and non-teaching staff. The six task areas, AO II and PDO I duties, and FY 2026 COS staff at ₱20,000 a month.
Vacation Service Credits and Overtime Pay for Teachers
DO 013, s. 2024 gives 1.25 or 1.5 hours of VSC per hour, up to 30 days a year. DO 026, s. 2025 pays overtime at 125% or 150% for TRA work in school.
Teaching-Related Assignments: The 11 Roles DepEd Allows
DepEd allows teachers only 11 teaching-related assignments under DO 005, s. 2024. The roles, how to designate them, overtime pay, forms and weekly hours.
Why So Few Teachers Get Paid for Teaching Overload
DepEd disbursed ₱27.4 million of ₱482.8 million allotted for overload pay in FY 2025. The claim papers, deadlines, FY 2026 funds and what school heads can do.
DepEd Teaching Overload Pay: Who Qualifies, How Much
DepEd overload pay is overload hours × PHTR (annual salary ÷ 1,600 × 1.25), up to 2 hours a day. Who qualifies, worked examples, FY 2026 rate, cap and tax.
Can Teachers Leave School After Six Hours of Teaching?
Yes, if the DTR shows six hours of teaching: DO 5 and DM 53, s. 2024 let teachers do the two ancillary hours outside school with a locator slip or certificate.
How Many Hours Must DepEd Teachers Teach a Day?
Six hours of classroom teaching in an eight-hour day, the most that may be required (RA 4670; DO 5, s. 2024): what counts, loads by position, and below six.
RA 11650 and Learners With Disabilities: EDCOM II Findings
EDCOM II: 391,098 of an estimated 5 million children with disabilities are in public school (7.8%). What RA 11650 and DepEd require, and what school heads do.
Local Education Models in EDCOM II: What the Evidence Shows
EDCOM II's local education models, from Project BRIGHT to Iloilo's school boards: what each did, who paid, and how strong its evidence is.
Local School Boards and the Special Education Fund
How the 1% Special Education Fund is raised, how Local School Boards spend it, what the 2025 joint circular allows and what EDCOM II found.
RA 12080, Bullying and School Mental Health: EDCOM II
RA 12080 requires a Care Center in every public school, yet 79% of DepEd guidance counselor posts are vacant. EDCOM II's findings and what school heads must do.
Teacher Workload and Accountability: EDCOM II Findings
EDCOM II on teacher workload: 52-hour weeks, forms cut from 174 to 75, AO II gaps, RA 12288, and what DO 002 and DO 005, s. 2024 ask of school heads.
Mass Promotion and Lost Instructional Time: EDCOM II
What EDCOM II found on mass promotion and lost class days, what it recommends, what DO 015 and DO 009, s. 2026 now require, and what school heads should do.
SIP Communication Plan: Structure, Style and a Sample
How to write a communication plan for the School Improvement Plan: its parts, plain writing style, DepEd's media and privacy rules, and a full sample plan.
Stakeholder Analysis for DepEd School Heads: A Guide
How DepEd school heads do a stakeholder analysis: who the school's stakeholders are, how to map power and interest, DO 40, s. 2015 tools, and engagement.
Child-Friendly School Survey and the CFSS in DepEd
What the Child-Friendly School System means in DepEd, how to answer and score the Child-Friendly School Survey in DO 44, s. 2015, and how to act on it.
Leadership Styles of School Heads: What the Evidence Says
Leadership styles of school heads compared: instructional, transformational, distributed, servant, spiritual and situational, with the evidence for each.
Instructional Leadership for DepEd School Heads
What instructional leadership means for DepEd school heads: PPSSH Domain 3, DO 016, s. 2026, the research evidence, and an instructional leader's week.
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