Collaboration and Partnership among Stakeholders towards Management of Public Elementary Schools

Abstract

Stakeholder collaboration plays a crucial role in driving school improvement efforts. By bringing together diverse perspectives, expertise, and resources, collaboration can lead to innovative solutions, enhanced decision-making, and improved outcomes for students. Collaboration with stakeholders allows you to identify potential hazards in building good connection and manage relationships that can jeopardize your organization's relationship with the community. This study aimed to know the level of Collaboration and Partnership of Stakeholders Toward Management of Public Elementary School. this seeks to answer what is the perception of the respondents to the stakeholders’ collaboration in terms of Collegial Collaboration, Community Collaboration; and Digital Collaboration and to what extent of observation is the stakeholders’ partnership be described when it comes to Connective Partnership, Generative Partnership and Transformative Partnership. It also aimed to determine how is the school management with the presence of stakeholders be described when it comes to School Leadership, School Improvement Process, School-Based Resource and School Performance Accountability. Furthermore, it aimed to determine the significant relationship between the level of stakeholders' collaboration and partnership, as perceived by schools, and the effectiveness of school management practices and the significant relationship between the stakeholder’s partnership and the school management. As a result, there is high level of perception of stakeholders’ collaboration in terms of collegial collaboration with overall mean of (4.49), community collaboration having overall mean of (4.40) and digital collaboration with (4.32) in Tayabas East District. The respondents greatly observed the existing stakeholders’ partnership in terms of connective partnership having overall mean of (4.38), generative partnership with the mean of (4.21), and transformative partnership with (4.30). In the respondents’ perception to school management observed that it is manageable having overall mean of (4.42) in school leadership, (4.36) in school improvement process, school-based resources gained (4.37), and school performance accountability with (4.35)   The hypothesis being posited is not supported, therefore, there is a significant relationship between the perception of stakeholders’ collaboration and school management. The hypothesis being posited is not supported, therefore, there is a significant relationship between the perception of stakeholders’ partnership and school management. It shows that the more the stakeholders collaborate and participate in the school activities, the more the school management be successful and learners gained positively from it.