2008-2009
THE FOUNDATION’S 2009 STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
2009 promises to be an exciting and challenging year for One Small Step Forward Foundation! Among its priorities:
1. The promised roll-out of the iSipnayan Math Program at a large (3,000 – 5,000) public elementary school. Recruit full-time administrative and project staff.
2. Major maintenance efforts on previous projects, specifically,the Bagumbayan Multimedia Learning Center for Excellence and the U.P. Industrial Engineering Ergonomics & Human Factors Laboratory.
3. A second major infrastructure donation to the Philippine Science High School main campus in Diliman, either in 2009 or 2010. The target will be either assisting in the fit-out of the second floor of the main building that was destroyed by fire two months ago, or, to assist in the complete refurbishing of the 3rd floor auditorium.
4. Assistance to Libis Elementary School in the conduct of a school-wide computer literacy program for the remainder of the 2008-09 school year.
5. Development work on the next big Foundation “thing” – the English literacy and fluency after-school program.
6. Purchase and donation of storybooks and reference books to an even larger number of public elementary schools.
7. Donation of equipment like PCs, photocopiers, school theater systems, sound systems, and LCD projectors.
8. In the longer-term, beginning 2011, building of additional libraries for other schools. By 2012, adoption of a few needy public high schools. Read the Foundation President’s message in full.
iSipnayan Pilot Finishes First Year at BES
The iSipnayan pilot has just completed a full year (12 months) in pilot at Bagumbayan Elementary School, currently with a control group of 25 students from grades 3, 4 and 5. Since February 2008, Katherine “Ella” Cruz has been in charge of day-to-day operations of the iSipnayan room, which is open Tuesdays and Fridays from 1:00 to 4:30 pm. Teacher Ella is assisted every afternoon (to man the center and interact with the students on Tuesdays and Fridays and to assist with content development and improvement on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays) by Ms. Ann Guarin.
Also assisting with worksheet corrections on irregular basis is a Bagumbayan Elementary School teacher, Maam Eva.
Ella Cruz graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University with a BS Biology degree, and even taught Biology at the Ateneo high school for three years. Read in full.
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