SLEP Colchagua schools formally join Chile's only educational network with a focus on early education

07-12-2021

In October this year, 17 educational establishments belonging to the communes of San Fernando and Chimbarongo joined the Improvement Network Un Buen Comienzo, a space for exchange and collaboration between educators and nursery school technicians, management teams and school principals, with the aim of enhancing the learning of girls and boys. On 9 December they will meet to share the lessons learned from their work. 

"We want to meet again, celebrate our achievements, share our experiences and begin to raise our first challenges for next year". With this phrase Perla Chávez, director of implementation of the Un Buen Comienzo (UBC) programme of Fundación Educacional Oportunidad explains the objectives of the learning session that will bring together, on 9 December, the 160 schools and kindergartens that make up the UBC Improvement Network and belong to the O'Higgins and Metropolitan regions. 

This network is a space for exchange and collaboration between kindergarten educators and technicians, management teams and sponsors, with the aim of enhancing the learning of children in early education. 

One of the most important news of the year for the Network was the incorporation of 17 educational establishments from the communes of San Fernando and Chimbarongo belonging to the Local Public Education Service (SLEP) Colchagua.  

The president of Fundación Educacional Oportunidad, Claudia Peirano, said that "we are grateful for the trust placed in us by the Colchagua Local Service team to join this pioneering work network with educators and technicians that allows us to promote educational projects relevant to the reality of each school and kindergarten. We hope to continue contributing to ensuring that kindergarten education in the territory meets the purpose and objectives of quality and participation that the SLEP has presented in its Local Strategic Plan". 

A very relevant aspect that will be experienced in this learning session is that it will begin to outline the objectives of the work to be carried out next year. Perla Chávez added that "the work with the SLEP of Colchagua will be a great learning experience for the UBC Improvement Network, considering that it is the first local service in the region".  

He added that "the knowledge and experience of working with the SLEP of Colchagua will generate a more amicable transition, maintaining what has been achieved so far with the different municipalities. It is very important that civil society can create synergies with the new state institutions, all in order to strengthen resources for quality education in the territory. 

The Executive Director of SLEP Colchagua, Leonardo Fuentes Román, highlighted the importance of the work carried out in recent months with the foundation. "Our mission is to deliver quality public education, an aspect that goes hand in hand with the incorporation of 17 educational establishments of SLEP Colchagua to the UBC Improvement Network. We will continue to strengthen the pedagogical skills of early education, through this programme that has been a great support for management teams and kindergarten educators in the territory".  

THE COMMUNES THAT MAKE UP THE NETWORK 

The Un Buen Comienzo Improvement Network is composed of the communes of Coltauco, Doñihue, Malloa, Machalí, Mostazal, Olivar, Paredones, Pichidegua, Quinta de Tilcoco, Rengo, San Fernando, Chimbarongo and San Vicente in the O'Higgins Region, and Renca in the Metropolitan Region.  

Almost a thousand people, including educators and kindergarten technicians, heads of UTP, directors of public schools and heads of DAEM of the municipalities make up this collaborative work network, the only one focused on early education in our country, which exists with the purpose of promoting the continuous development of teaching and management skills in order to sustain school improvement and effectiveness and thus have an impact on the learning of children at the early education level.