All DepEd employees are encouraged to join the 2019 Brigada Eskwela activities by volunteering their skills, sharing their time or providing in-kind support to public schools near their residence. Interested employees are given two days to do volunteer work on official time, provided that such work is approved by their heads of offices.
Further, non-teaching personnel shall earn a Compensatory Time Off (CTO) for the complete eight hours participation in the maintenance efforts on the last day of Brigada Eskwela week, which is a Saturday.
Teaching personnel are entitled to earn vacation service credits arising from their active involvement in the 2019 Brigada Eskwela activity. A complete six-day participation in the maintenance effort shall give teachers a three-day service credit entitlement.
26 March 2019
DepEd Memorandum No. 36, s. 2019
No. 036, s. 2019
TO:
Undersecretaries
Assistant Secretaries
Bureau and Service Drectors
Regionall Directors
Schools Division Superintendents
Public and Private Ekementary School Heads
All Others Concerned
2019 Brigada Eskwela Implementing Guidelines
- The Department of Education (DepEd) will conduct the 2019 Brigada Eskwela from May 20 to 25, 2019 with the theme “Matatag na Bayan para sa Maunlad na Paaralan.”
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- The Brigada Eskwela is the National Schools Maintenance Week, that aims to brings together all education stakeholders to participate and contribute their time, effort, and resources to prepare public school facilities for the opening of the school year in June.
- The host region will hold the national kick-off program on May 16, 2019 in a public school to be announced later.
- Likewise, regional offices (ROs) and schools division offices (SDOs) will hold their kick-off ceremonies to launch the Brigada Eskwela in their respective areas on May 20, 2019.
- All regional directors (RDs) and schools division superintendents (SDSs) shall mobilize their partnerships with school-based focal persons to ensure the effective implementation of Brigada Eskwela in all public elementary and secondary schools, and the involvement of their communities.
- School heads (SHs) shall take the lead role in planning the activities geared on making schools ecologically conscious, resilient, clean, and conducive to learning. Important reminders to SHs in the conduct of this activity are indicated in Enclosure No. 1.
- Individuals or groups from the national government agencies (NGAs), local government units (LGUs), private sector, international organizations and other parties, who or which are interested to help the schools may coordinate with any of the following:
- External Partnerships Service (EPS) of the DepEd Central Office,
- Education Support Services Division in the ROs,
- Social Mobilization and Networking Section under the Schools Governance and Operations Division in the SDOs and/or
- SHs of the beneficiary school, for guidance.
The schedule of activities for the 2019 Brigada Eskwela implementation is as follows:
Activity | Schedule |
Pre-implementation Stage of Brigada Eskwela (Assessment of Physical Facilities and Maintenance Needs of the Schools, Resource Mobilization, Organization of Brigada Eskwela Committees and their Orientation on Specific Roles and Tasks, among other activities) | Jan 3-May 17, 2019 |
Brigada Eskwela National Kick-off Program and Caravan | May 16, 2019 |
Brigada Eskwela Regional and Schools Division Kick-off Program and Caravan | On or before May 20, 2019 |
Brigada Eskwela Implementation and Monitoring of Schools | May 20-25, 2019 |
Submission of Consolidated Brigada Eskwela Accomplishment Reports by the Division Coordinators to the Regions | June 28, 2019 |
Submission of Consolidated Brigada Eskwela Accomplishment Reports by the Regional Coordinators to the External Partnerships Service | July 31, 2019 |
Submission of Division Entries for the Brigada Eskwela Awards to the Regions | July 31, 2019 |
Regional Selection and Deliberation of Brigada Eskwela Awards Candidates | Aug 1-Sep 27, 2019 |
Submission of Final List of School Candidates as Brigada Eskwela National Awardees to External Partnerships Service, including the submission of rating sheets reflecting the ranks and scores of the awardee -candidates | On or before Oct 18, 2019 |
Conduct of Brigada Eskwela Regional Awarding Ceremony | Within Oct-Nov 2019 |
Conduct of Brigada Eskwela National Awarding Ceremony | Nov 28, 2019 |
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