NGO Spotlight on Excel PH

Excel Center for Educational Leadership (Excel) is the NGO that I started two years ago to address a gap in the public education sector.

When you think of NGOs addressing education, you think of poor but deserving students. Scholarships. Books. School supplies. Support for underachieving students. These are the usual forms of support that NGOs provide to public schools and their students. All well and good, those students deserve to go to school and receive quality education as much as anybody else.

The school head influences the kind of environment our students learn in.

Which is why Excel focuses on training public school principals on leadership. The principal is the head of the school; his or her decisions and actions impact not only the school but also the community. Under poor leadership by a principal, no matter how much scholarship money the students receive, quality education is just beyond their grasp. We need both student support and teacher support in order for our public education system to improve.

Excel trains new principals and head teachers in the area of personal leadership and community engagement. We aim to complement the Department of Education's own principal training program, through the National Educators Academy of the Philippines (NEAP), which provides the more technical aspects of leadership and management within the structure of the DepEd. Our goal at Excel is that our principals develop their own personal strengths as leaders in order to fully engage their community and think more innovatively.

Excel's second batch of Fellows from Pampanga are ready to hone their leadership skills.

We are inviting you (yes, you, dear reader) to be our partner in strengthening our principals' leadership skills. You can actually "Adopt a Fellow" by donating just P200 to Excel. That P200 will shoulder the food and materials of one of our Fellows for one seminar. Our Leadership Development Program is composed of four modules or four seminars. If you want to adopt one Fellow for the whole duration of the LDP, you can donate P800. If you're feeling particularly generous, you can also sponsor our entire batch of Pampanga Fellows for one seminar--25 Fellows for P4500 for their food and materials. If you're really looking to unload a couple hundred thousand pesos, you can also fund the costs of training a whole batch for the entire LDP, including speakers, transportation,  and accommodation via our corporate sponsorship packages. Our Pampanga batch is now halfway done, but you can opt to sponsor the remaining two seminars OR sponsor our next one.

Several ways to support our principals!

To know more about us or how you can help, you can visit www.excelph.org or shoot us an email at marketing@excelph.org.