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Graduation Message

The superintendent congratulates the graduates and completers on successfully navigating the challenges of their education, especially during the pandemic. She emphasizes developing resilience in the face of adversity to achieve dreams and overcome obstacles. The superintendent urges the graduates to be grateful, make decisive choices, dream big, give back to their community, and exemplify commitment, accountability, resilience and excellence as they embark on their next journey. She wishes them the very best in their future endeavors.

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Graduation Message

The superintendent congratulates the graduates and completers on successfully navigating the challenges of their education, especially during the pandemic. She emphasizes developing resilience in the face of adversity to achieve dreams and overcome obstacles. The superintendent urges the graduates to be grateful, make decisive choices, dream big, give back to their community, and exemplify commitment, accountability, resilience and excellence as they embark on their next journey. She wishes them the very best in their future endeavors.

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GRADUATION MESSAGE

SUSAN S. COLLANO, PhD CESO V


Schools Division Superintendent

Theme: Gradweyt ng K to 12: Masigasig sa mga Pangarap at Matatag sa mga Pagsubok (K to 12


Graduates: Pursuing dreams and Fostering Resilience in the Face of Adversity)

Today, we take pride in graduating you and sending you to the next chapter of your schooling and
your life. The same goes to the completers of 2022! You were a formidable batch of resilient graduates
and completers. Congratulations is an understatement, but yes, proudest congratulations to each one
of you!

Wherever you were coming from, whatever you encountered and experienced, and however you
dealt with the challenging circumstances, one thing is clear: you successfully mustered the challenges
and today, you share the roads that lead to this common destination – your graduation.

This year’s theme stresses the more significant ingredient for your next journey. Adversity is the name
of the game, but resiliency is the character that overturns the adversity into a desired reality. Be it
impressed upon each one of you that wherever you go, whatever you set out to do and pursue, there
will always be a thing or two that would get in your way to challenge your quotients! Think about
adversity quotient. This may be something new and mature thing for you, but that is the key. You must
master and muster the adversity even if they are still in the peripheries or never have been thought
of, just like the pandemic, because it is in that prepositioning mindset that you get to prepare for both
worst and best. Thus, whatever hindrance there would be in achieving your dreams, the strength of
your character and the mindfulness of your quotients will surely sweep your worries away! You have
proven this, remember.

First essence of your success today: Be grateful, express gratitude. Next to God, your parents,
teachers, school officials, virtual and physical classmates, friends, and relatives deserve such
gratefulness. They, in one way or another, helped you shape your years in your Alma Mater.

As you take on the challenge of your next journey, I share with you this inspiring line delivered by
world-acclaimed singer Taylor Swift during her graduation speech at the New York University: “Life
can be heavy, especially if you try to carry it all at once”! True, indeed! Comparably, in your case,
schooling in the trying times of pandemic was not easy, in fact, it was difficult and heavy. You had to
deal with the abnormalities of time, modalities of learning, uncomfortable set-ups, more so, the usual
environment void of interaction. All these are adversarial to what you expected as normal and usual.
The core message is: do not carry all the heaviness of your life. “You can decide what’s to hold and
keep, but you can also choose to release which are not worth keeping”. In so doing, you remain
unencumbered by the tolls of difficulties, thus making your way to the top focused and dutifully
resolute.
Second essence of your graduation: decisiveness. Again, whatever and however life offers us, choose
and decide. I should believe, you will choose and decide success, no less! Get what you want. But,
getting what you want is not an overnight effort. You must repeat burning the midnight oil, so to
speak, over and over again to have it. As you do, carry on with added enthusiasm (this is very important
because this is a virtue that’s closest to the God!). Double the effort, increase the enthusiasm, multiply
the reward. Do not limit your dream within the immediate realm of your sight, dream more, dream
big!

When you have the golden time and star of success, come home. Come home to your family, come
home to your Alma Mater, come home to your community. Share, participate, contribute, give back
in whatever way possible. One who has a means should find a way to give back or take good care of
others. This is the final essence of this graduation moment I am sharing with you, as I always say
greater sense of meaning is found in having given a share of our self, our gifts, and our blessings to
those who are most in need, especially when you are bestowed with blessings way better than the
others.

More specifically, I urge you to be a person of sterling character: passionate, patriotic, disciplined,
conscientious, faithful, humble seekers and purveyors of truth and justice, tenacious and resilient.

Just like what we set in our division as mantra enshrined in the slogan I-CARE for ISLA, we made scores
of successes in putting forth our goals and objectives for every Catandunganon learner even in the
time of pandemic. So, please carry with you this slogan, ignite your sense of Commitment,
Accountability, Resiliency and Excellence (CARE) in everything you will do after today. The future is
yours to hold, so, remain steadfast and focused because the best is yet to be! This sounds classic, yet
it is the way to be.

So long, dear graduates and completers! We shall be proudly cheering on you always. God bless your
journey. Proudest congratulations, again!

XXXX

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