Aklan is a province located in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. It has 17 municipalities and 327 barangays, with the town of Kalibo serving as the capital. Aklan traces its history back to the 13th century with the arrival of ten Bornean datus. It is known for hosting the Ati-atihan Festival in Kalibo, as well as producing piña cloth. The province aims to strengthen programs related to governance and management of schools through its Division Education Development Plan from 2022-2028, in order to improve student and teacher outcomes despite challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aklan is a province located in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. It has 17 municipalities and 327 barangays, with the town of Kalibo serving as the capital. Aklan traces its history back to the 13th century with the arrival of ten Bornean datus. It is known for hosting the Ati-atihan Festival in Kalibo, as well as producing piña cloth. The province aims to strengthen programs related to governance and management of schools through its Division Education Development Plan from 2022-2028, in order to improve student and teacher outcomes despite challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aklan is a province located in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. It has 17 municipalities and 327 barangays, with the town of Kalibo serving as the capital. Aklan traces its history back to the 13th century with the arrival of ten Bornean datus. It is known for hosting the Ati-atihan Festival in Kalibo, as well as producing piña cloth. The province aims to strengthen programs related to governance and management of schools through its Division Education Development Plan from 2022-2028, in order to improve student and teacher outcomes despite challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aklan is a province located in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. It has 17 municipalities and 327 barangays, with the town of Kalibo serving as the capital. Aklan traces its history back to the 13th century with the arrival of ten Bornean datus. It is known for hosting the Ati-atihan Festival in Kalibo, as well as producing piña cloth. The province aims to strengthen programs related to governance and management of schools through its Division Education Development Plan from 2022-2028, in order to improve student and teacher outcomes despite challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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(about the province of aklan)
Feel Aklan, Feel Alive
Aklan is situated in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. It has 17
Municipalities comprising 327 Barangays and the town Kalibo is the capital of the province.
Regarded as the country’s oldest province, the written history of Aklan takes us back to the middle of the 13th century when ten Bornean datus, together with their families, fled the oppressive rule of the Bornean king Sultan Makatunaw. The account paved the way for Aklan’s religiosity to the Kalibo Sto. Niño Ati-atihan Festival, declared as “The Mother of all Philippine Festivals.”
Its significant heritage, albeit century-old past, the birth of the province of Aklan, April 25, 1956, thru Republic Act 1414, separating Aklan from the province Capiz, authored by Congressman Godofredo P. Ramos.
Proud of famous Boracay Island as recognized globally being one of the best beaches for its sugary-fine-white sand, sapphire waters, amazing coral reefs, and exceptional sea shells.
Aklan has become the prime producer of piña cloth in the country and used by international designers for their collections as well. This unique textile deemed as “The Queen of Philippine Fabrics.”
A mountainous province with over one-third of its land area sloping at 30
percent on the average. It is one of the few provinces in the country to maintain a total of 709 hectares of virgin forest. And has a total land area of 1,817 sq. kms.
Based from 2020 Census of Population and Housing by the Philippine
Statistics Authority, as of May 1, 2020, Aklan has 615,475 population.
Aklan’s population accounted for about 8 percent in Western Visayas, which
is 7,954,723. The province’s population increased by 40,652 from 574,823 in 2015, which translates to an annual population growth rate (PGR) of 1.45 percent, up from 1.35 percent PGR during the period 2010 to 2015.
The Aklan Provincial Government boasts that beyond sand, sound and fiber, the province has an active economy, finding its richness of agriculture and marine resources as income-generating means. Aklan is packed with entrepreneurial residents who served as channels from which have various industries have spawned. This has in turn given the government inspiration to be in quest of innovative and ground-breaking avenues for its progress thriving towards sustainable development.
Source: https://aklan.gov.ph/about-aklan/ (narrative of key point Agenda on Enabling mechanism)
Enabling Mechanism – Governance and Management
The Schools Division of Aklan explores appropriate strategic directions in
Enabling Mechanism – Governance and Management embedded in the Division Education Development Plan (DEDP) for 2022-2028.
It recognizes significant deal of work to guide the following: 1) improved SBM
level of practice; 2) very satisfactory or higher rating in the Office Performance Commitment and Review Form (OPCRF); 3) an ideal ratio in classroom, teachers, textbooks, seat, Science and Math equipment, and ICT package/e-classroom; 4) ideal proportion in functional library, connection to electricity, and connection to internet functional library; 5) ideal interquartile ratio (IQR) on teacher deployment; 6) very satisfactory rating in the Client Satisfaction Survey from the respective stakeholders (internal & external) across governance; 7) financial contribution from local and international partners; and 8) functional School Government Council (SGC).
Though the post COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a number of
challenges, the threat can be taken as an opportunity to strengthen programs and projects such as PAGKILAEA, MoRe (Mobile Resources), ONLI – ONe Library, CATCHED (Capacitating Teacher’s Challenges and Educational Development), CARE (Collaborative Action in Remediation and Evaluation), and BINHI: Gulayan sa Tahanan Challenges.
This strategic development plan is a strong proponent of ensuring equitable
access to learning opportunities for all children. We will continue to strive for the best educational and life course outcomes in the SDO Aklan.
