Move to drive education excellence in KK

Kota Kinabalu: The District Education Office (PPD) hopes to drive education excellence in Kota Kinabalu through its recently launched “Oasis Kecemerlangan Sembilan” (OK9).The initiative lives up to Kota Kinabalu PPD’s motto “Dare To Change”. “Kota Kinabalu PPD’s uniqueness in promoting student excellence and quality schools, aligns with the School Transformation (TS25) goal which is our dream as educators with strong community support,” said State Education Director, Dr Mistirine Radin, when officiating the OK9 launching ceremony, here, Monday. Her speech was delivered by her Deputy Director (Planning Sector), Darman Shah Asakil.

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“This is in line with the current educational developments that have led to the transformation of education towards realising the Malaysian Education Development Plan 2013-2025 (PPPM 2013-2025).

“The presence of collaborators and communities at this event has shown positive values and examples especially in today’s educational world. “Kota Kinabalu PPD’s OK9 not only fulfils the educational aspirations of excellent students and quality schools, but also enhances education for all,” she said. She said involvement and positive injection from all parties at various levels are crucial to enable the diversity of processes to occur in education. She said with the cooperation and engagement of parents, communities, government agencies, private agencies, non-governmental organisations, local communities and the global community, a variety of learning experiences can be created that will enhance the quality of human capital generated. “It is my hope that the effort will continue to be a catalyst for the excellence of our nation’s education, in particular our children’s success,” she said. The OK9 is an integrated and comprehensive development model which acts as a smart partnership platform for strategic and collective school success.

This is in line with the restructuring of PPDs function in 2020, where the challenge is in addressing the need to enhance schools in terms of student excellence and quality schools to meet the demands of the PPPM 2013-2025. After much deliberation, the Kota Kinabalu PPD under the leadership of Tah Nia Jaman, came up with four key goals outlined for the OK9, namely to improve effective leadership, improve teacher quality, enhance Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) and community support. The ultimate goal is to create a meaningful teaching and learning environment. These goals are indicative of the excellence of the schools towards the TS25 as envisaged in the PPPM 2013-2025. “The OK9 implementation uses the Professional Learning Community (PLC) and bottom up approach. In other words, schools in the OK9 community will take the initiative to find appropriate interventions for each issues by locality and to resolve them collectively,” said Tah Nia in her address. The OK9 consists of six Oasis Kecemerlangan Sekolah Rendah which involves 58 primary schools, while three Oasis Kecemerlangan is for 24 secondary schools under the Kota Kinabalu PPD. The Oasis Kecemerlangan Sekolah Rendah is divided into OK9 Likas, OK9 Inanam, OK9 Manggatal, OK9 SJKC, OK9 Tanjung Aru and OK9 Telipok.

While Oasis Kecemerlangan Sekolah Menengah is divided into OK9 S1 (SM La Salle, SMK Taman Tun Fuad, SMK Pulau Gaya, SM Shan Tao, SM Stella Maris, SMK Likas, SSM, Sekolah Dalam Hospital), OK9 S2 (Maktab Sabah, SMK Lok Yuk Likas, SMK Bandaraya, SM St Francis Convent, SMK Agama Tun Ahmadshah, SM St Peter, SMK Kolombong, Kolej Vokasional) and OK9 S3 (SM All Saints, SM Sanzac, SMK Tebobon, SMK Inanam, SMK Agama KK, SMK Perempuan, SM Tinggi, Kolej Tingkatan 6). Tah Nia went on to explain the acronym for oasis which is outcome, accountability, smart, integrity and sustainability.

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“This refers to each project, intervention or activity under OK9 that needs to look at the outcome, accountability, smart, integrity and sustainability,” she said. She hoped the OK9 will achieve its goals being part of efforts by the Kota Kinabalu PPD to promote education especially in Kota Kinabalu district and Sabah in general in line with the mission and vision of the Ministry of Education.

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