DepEd Memorandum 042, s. 2025
2025 Brigada Eskwela Implementing Guidelines
MAY 09 2025
DepEd MEMORANDUM
No. 042, s. 2025
2025 BRIGADA ESKWELA IMPLEMENTING GUIDELINES
To: Undersecretaries
Assistant Secretaries
Minister, Basic, Higher, and Technical Education, BARMM
Bureau and Service Directors
Regional Directors
Schools Division Superintendents
Public Elementary and Secondary School Heads
All Others Concerned
1. Consistent with DepEd Order No. 012, s. 2025 (Multi-Year Implementing Guidelines on the School Calendar and Activities), the Department of Education (DepEd) will conduct the 2025 Brigada Eskwela Program from June 9 to 13, 2025, as part of its annual initiative to ensure schools are safe, resilient, and well-equipped for the opening of classes on June 16, 2025.
2. Brigada Eskwela is a five-day activity that upholds the spirit of bayanihan, encouraging community collaboration to prepare schools for the upcoming school year. With literacy as a key priority of the Department, this year's theme, Brigada Eskwela: Sama-sama Para sa Bayang Bumabasa, highlights a nationwide effort and volunteerism on literacy development. The program also serves various purposes like the usual preparing and improving the school facilities and environment, supporting the physical and mental well-being of learners, addressing the needs of engaging parents and stakeholders, and ensuring the accuracy of educational data through a nationwide inventory validation.
3. This year's Brigada Eskwela shall focus on the following:
a. Ensuring that all schools are well-prepared for the new school year by providing a clean, safe, and conducive learning environment for both learners and teachers;
b. Encouraging active participation of stakeholders in supporting learners' reading skills development and ensuring that reading resources are available at the schools.
c. Organizing clean-up activities and performing minor to medium repairs and maintenance work in classrooms and school grounds;
d. Promoting volunteerism and community involvement in enhancing school facilities and resources;
e. Creating a master list of learners along with a schedule for health assessments (e.g., nutritional assessment and vision and hearing screening) and assisting the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation in the enrollment of learners to the National Health Insurance Program;
f. Engaging stakeholders in mobilizing data-driven partnerships with the community to help address the needs of schools; and
g. Validating essential resource data against existing records of DepEd and engaging the community in establishing inventory data.
4. To officially commence the Brigada Eskwela period, a Nationwide Brigada Eskwela Kick Off will take place on Monday, June 9, 2025. DepEd Central Office will jointly hold its Kick Off Program with Region V, while other regions shall organize their respective kick off activities. The event will be streamed live on the official DepEd Philippines Facebook page to simultaneously launch and promote Brigada Eskwela.
5. The Guidelines on the Implementation of Brigada Eskwela and National Inventory Day (NID) for School Year 2025-2026 are provided as Enclosures No. 1 and 2, respectively. DepEd Policy and Planning Service under the Strategic Management Strand shall take the lead in the execution of the NID. The guidelines for the Learners' Health Assessment, to be undertaken by the School Health Division under the Operations Strand, shall be issued through a separate policy. The schedule of activities for the 2025 Brigada Eskwela program shall be as follows:
Activity | Schedule |
Nationwide Brigada Eskwela Kick Off | June 9, 2025 |
Brigada Eskwela Implementation, Monitoring of Schools, and Inventory Validation and Official Reporting of selected education data | June 9-13, 2025 |
Deadline for the submission of Brigada Eskwela resources generated in the DepEd Partnerships Database System | Schools: July 6, 2025 (to be verified and validated by SDOs/ROs) |
Submission of Brigada Eskwela Transmittal or Accomplishment Report | By SDOs to ROs: July 15, 2025 |
Regional Office (RO) and Schools Division Office (SDO) Brigada Eskwela Appreciation and Recognition Ceremony | To be determined by respective Ros and SDOs |
6. All regions and schools divisions are directed to provide intensive and extensive support to school heads during the Brigada Eskwela period.
7. For information and clarification, please contact the following:
Brigada Eskwela: External Partnerships Service
external.partnerships@deped.gov.ph
externalpartnerships@deped.gov.ph
(02) 8638-8637 and 8638-8639
National Inventory Day: Policy and Planning Service
(02) 8638-2251, 8637-6204, and 8635-3958
Learners' Health Assessment: School Health Division
(02) 8632-9935
8. Immediate dissemination of this Memorandum is desired.
(SGD) SONNY ANGARA
Secretary
Encls.:
As stated
References:
DepEd Order (No. 012, s. 2025)
DepEd Memorandum No. 033, s. 2024
To be indicated in the Perpetual Index
under the following subjects:
BUREAUS AND OFFICES
CAMPAIGN
COMMITTEES
LEARNERS
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
OFFICIALS
PARTNERSHIPS
PROGRAMS
SCHOOLS
TEACHERS
A full copy of DepEd Memorandum No. 042, s. 2025 below:
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