Guidelines on the Streamlining of School Forms and Reports Accomplished by Teachers

1. The Department of Education (DepEd) has been steadfast in undertaking reforms that aim to cultivate a work environment that supports quality education while taking care of its people.

2. With the issuance of DepEd Order (DO) Nos. 002, s. 2024 titled Immediate Removal of Administrative Tasks of Public-School Teachers and DO 005, s. 2024 titled Rationalization of Teachers' Workload in Public Schools and Payment of Teaching Overload, the Department has rationalized the workload of teachers by streamlining their day-to-day tasks, setting their official working hours, and providing guidelines for additional compensation for work excess of their prescribed workload. The issuance of these policies promotes teacher quality while upholding teacher welfare. However, in our efforts to continuously build a work environment supportive of these goals, the Department acknowledges that there is a need to rationalize the processes at the school level, particularly the school forms and reports mandated to our schools and teachers.

3. In support of this endeavor, the Department issued DepEd Memorandum No. 037,

s. 2024 titled Creation of Task Force Results-Based Performance Management System and Teachers' Workload, creating a task force dedicated to reviewing and assessing teachers' workload with a focus on reportorial requirements. The task force has conducted a series of consultations with teachers, school heads, and nonteaching personnel to identify key issues surrounding school forms and reports and formulate concrete solutions to address these problems.

4. In consonance with the rationalized workload of teachers, the school forms and reports to be accomplished by teachers shall be limited to those required for their teacher ancillary tasks and teaching-related assignments as provided in Enclosure Nos. 1 to 3.

5. In cases where teachers are members of groups, teams, or councils organized for stakeholder engagement, such as the School Planning Team (SJYI'), School Governance Council (SGC), and/or Parent-Teacher Association (JYI'A), among others, they may be required to accomplish forms and reports related to their duties as members of these groups. However, as may be practicable, other members aside from teachers shall assume primary responsibility for these forms and reports. Furthermore, the school heads must ensure that under no circumstances shall teachers' workload be adversely affected in the performance of duties in these groups.

6. The Human Resource and Organizational Development (HROD) Strand shall review and assess new school forms and reports and their implications for teacher workload. The Curriculum and Teaching and Operations Strands shall continuously review and assess existing school forms and reports from their respective strands to ensure alignment with teacher workload, ancillary tasks, and teaching-related assignments.

7. The regional offices (ROs) and schools division offices (SDOs) shall constitute an implementation team responsible for overseeing and monitoring the implementation of the policy. At the minimum, the implementation team shall be composed of the following:

Regional Offices

Chairperson Assistant Regional Director

Members Field Technical Assistance Division, Chief

Schools Division Offices

Chairperson Assistant Schools Division Superintendent

Members Curriculum Implementation Division, Chief School Governance Operations

Division, Chief

8. The Strategic Management Strand shall be responsible for the overall review, assessment, and streamlining of school forms and reports outside the workload of teachers, in coordination with all other concerned offices at the Central Office, ROs, and SDOs. Compliance with Republic Act No. 10173, otherwise known as the Data Privacy Act of 2012 and other relevant laws and issuances shall be strictly observed in the following undertakings, among others:

a. Establish a Data Management Framework in DepEd to guide the operationalization of information systems within the Department, including processes for data collection, reporting, and analysis;

b. Convene all concerned offices to discuss and evaluate both immediate and long-term interventions to ensure that school forms and reports outside the workload of teachers are not burdensome to school personnel due to complexity, redundancy, or volume; and

c. Develop information systems that shall streamline data collection and reporting processes across all governance levels.

9. All DOs and other related issuances, rules, regulations, and provisions that are inconsistent with these guidelines are repealed, rescinded, or modified accordingly.

10. This DO shall take effect immediately upon its approval, issuance, and publication on the DepEd website. This shall be registered with the Office of the National Administrative Register (ONAR) at the University of the Philippines Law Center (UP LC), UP Diliman, Quezon City.

11. For more information, all concerned may contact the Bureau of Human Resource and Organizational Development-School Effectiveness Division, 4th Floor, Mabini Building, Department of Education Central Office, DepEd Complex, Meralco Avenue, Pasig City through email at bhrod.sed@deped.gov.ph.

12. Immediate dissemination of and strict compliance with this Order is directed.

SONNY ANGARA

Secretary

March 20, 2025 DO 006, s. 2025 – Guidelines on the Streamlining of School Forms and Reports Accomplished by Teachers: DOWNLOAD HERE