STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT SKILLS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL HEADS, COMPETENCE AMONG PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS, AND SCHOOL ACADEMIC READINESS IN CLUSTER 4 DIVISION OF CALAMBA CITY

The primary goal of this study was to determine the correlation between the strategic managerial skills of school heads, teacher competence, and the academic readiness of public schools. It was conducted in the Cluster 4 District of the Division of Calamba City. The study employed a quantitative research design that utilized the descriptive correlational approach. Stratified random sampling was implemented. The study adopted a questionnaire from Melo's (2021) research to evaluate the strategic management skills of the school heads. Moreover, the study utilized a standardized monitoring/assessment tool from the DepEd to assess the level of competence of public school teachers and the level of academic readiness of schools. Furthermore, the data collected were handed accordingly and subjected to different statistical treatments using frequency count, simple mean, percentage, T-Test, and Pearson Product Moment-Correlation Coefficient (Pearson’s r). The results revealed that: School heads of Cluster 4 highly manifested their strategic management skills while the level of teaching competence of the public school teachers in Cluster 4 District was highly observable in terms of the given domains of the PPST 2023. Moreover, the level of academic readiness of the public schools were highly observed. Furthermore, based on the result there were significant correlations between the strategical management skills and the teaching competence in the given significant indicators. And lastly, there were significant correlations between strategic management skills of school heads towards academic readiness of public schools. In line with the findings, recommendations were given for school heads, teachers and schools for better improvement.