Synergeia is a coalition of individuals, institutions, and organizations working to improve the quality of basic education.
Synergeia: (see-ner-hee-yuh) Greek, n. a union of forces whose sum is greater than the parts of its whole.
We implement programs to improve basic education for nearly 1.5 million schoolchildren in 250 municipalities in the Philippines. We engage local governments, socio-civic groups, schools, teachers, parents, and students to work together in upgrading basic education.
Save a Filipino child from a lifetime of ignorance!
Every peso counts. No contribution is too small, whether skills or monetary.
Mr. Washington SyCip, Synergeia Trustee, philanthropist and a widely respected business leader announced the opening of a Kazarian-SyCip Fund. The fund is a financing facility open to Local School Boards that will implement programs to reduce dropouts and improve learning performance of students in elementary education.
The Navotas City’s Project Management Team set out its priorities for its education program in a workshop held last December 1, 2011. The PMT, led by Mayor John Reynald Tiangco, has put top priority on activities that support parents’ engagement, enhancing teacher skills and values, and principal empowerment. These priorities were set in response to the challenge of improving performance of schoolchildren in Navotas. A look at its National Achievement Test results in SY 2009-2010 showed that the average Grade Six pupil had a Mean Percentage Score of 62%.
As proof of their commitment to provide children with quality education, Mayors from Maguindanao will converge in a strategic planning on January 19, 2012 in Cotobato. They will share their best experiences in working with children, teachers and schools and analyse the factors which made these programs successful. The next in their agenda is to map out programs that they will undertake this year in their municipalities and collectively as a region.
A two-day orientation-planning workshop will be held for Synergeia’s lean and mean staff to discuss its program of action in 2012 for its programs nationwide. With its expansion in more municipalities, Synergeia staff will discuss program management strategies to achieve its goals for the year. Individual work programs will be tackled and consolidated. Teambuilding activities will also be conducted.
The staff workshop is set on January 31-February 1 at the Ateneo Professional Schools.
Twelve (12) Synergeia partner-schools made it to the list of finalists of Procter & Gamble (P&G) Philippines’ e.Studyante Program. Under the program, P&G will grant technology and connectivity to three (3) winning schools, one each from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
More...Synergeia is welcoming the New Year by renewing and strengthening its partnerships in Maguindanao. A workshop and a fellowship among mayors of at least 12 municipalities of the province will be held on Thursday, January 19, 2012 at St. Joseph’s Retreat House in Cotabato City. More...
A Christmas Message from a SynergetteBy: John Silva Christmas 2010 Seeing new Synergettes at last night’s Christmas party and being described as the “seniors” in the group, which suggests that we’re about to be put to pasture, let me tell you a story why I have loved and am devoted to Synergeia. First, it gave me bragging rights to tell my city friends that I have [...] |
