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More Than Just a Teacher Number: Reclaiming Our Dignity
More Than Just a Teacher Number: Reclaiming Our Dignity We have Employee Numbers. We have Item Numbers. We have GSIS BP Numbers. But sometimes, in the...
Level Up Your Visual Aids: Using "Nano Banana" AI in the Classroom
Level Up Your Visual Aids: Using "Nano Banana" AI in the Classroom Teachers, are you tired of using the same pixelated clip-art from 2005 for your Pow...
LET 2025 Schedule: The Road to "LPT" Starts Here
LET 2025 Schedule: The Road to "LPT" Starts Here To our future colleagues, the "Future LPTs"—this is your year! The Professional Regulation Commission...
CSE-PPT 2025 Schedule: Your Gateway to a Permanent Item
CSE-PPT 2025 Schedule: Your Gateway to a Permanent Item Before you can become a permanent teacher (if you aren't an LPT yet) or land that Administrati...
Breaking the "Teacher I" Curse: A Guide to Reclassification (EO 174)
Breaking the "Teacher I" Curse: A Guide to Reclassification in 2025 There is a running joke that some of us retire as "Teacher 1, Step 8." It’s painfu...
GSIS MPL Flex: Savior or Trap? An Honest Review for Teachers
GSIS MPL Flex: Savior or Trap? An Honest Review "Loan" is practically a vocabulary word in the DepEd dictionary. Whether it's for house repairs, tuiti...
COT Pressure: When Observation Becomes a Health Hazard
COT Pressure: When Observation Becomes a Health Hazard We need to talk about what happened in Muntinlupa. The passing of Teacher Agnes Buenaflor durin...
MATATAG Curriculum Phase 2: What Grade 2 and Grade 5 Teachers Need to Prepare
MATATAG Curriculum Phase 2: What Grade 2 and Grade 5 Teachers Need to Prepare The pilot year is over, and the rollout continues! For School Year 2025-...
The Eternal Waiting Game: Where in the World is Our PBB 2023?
The Eternal Waiting Game: Where in the World is Our PBB 2023? Okay, let’s be honest. If "patience" is a virtue, Filipino teachers are practically sain...
Teacher Salary Update: Are We Ready for the 3rd Tranche of SSL VI in 2026?
Hello, fellow kaguros! If you’re like me, the first thing you check when the news comes on is updates about our salary. We’ve all felt the pinch of in...
"Expanded Career Progression" Means for You
For decades, the story was the same for public school teachers in the Philippines: You enter as a Teacher I, and often, you retire as a Teacher I or II...