Abstract
This study attempted to investigate the collaboration, caring, advocacy and empowerment of elementary and secondary public-school teachers. Three hundred teachers from M’lang North district, Cotabato are being participated during the conduct of this study for the S.Y. 2021 – 2022. This study employed a path analysis method using quantitative approach. The data gathering tool contained an adopted questionnaire coming from the different authors. Mean, standard deviation, Pearson product moment correlation, multiple regression analysis and structural equation modeling were used in statistical tool. Based on the findings of the study, teacher collaboration, caring and empowerment were described as high. Meanwhile, the advocacy was described as moderate. The results also revealed that there is a significant relationship between collaboration, caring, advocacy and teacher empowerment. Collaboration and caring have significantly predicted the teacher empowerment compared to advocacy. Hypothesized model 5 have successfully met the criteria set by each index. This means that the model fits well with the data which can best explain the empowerment of teachers.
Keywords: teacher empowerment, collaboration, caring, advocacy, path analysis, M’lang north district