Teacher's teacher

Planting is a both a skill and an advocacy. It is a skill because others plant and whatever they plant, die, so those who have the skill to plant find the seedlings they planted, alive and healthy. It is an advocacy because tree planting is really a way to do a proactive role to take care of our Mother Earth which by now is declared ravished and abused, denuded and deforested.

So there is this executive order by the President of the Philippines which is envisioned to last for six years, Greening Project to see our watershed protected by trees, bring back timberland and rainforest for the sake of our health and the sustainability of our protection from typhoons, floods and the like. Will this really become a reality if we do not imbibe planting as both a skill and an advocacy? Que sera, sera . . .

As a teacher, we hope to begin our first steps with putting into action planting as a skill and an advocacy: as a faculty members and students of the College of Teacher Education.

There is a big chance we pray for after all, education is "lifting" up all those possibilities that make us better persons, more responsible members of society, proactive teachers and students.

We intend to prove our "salt: sooner rather than later. . .