History of Cavite Institute

      CAVITE INSTITUTE was established in June 1947 as a purely vocational school offering Dressmaking, Typing and Stenography. This is in response to the clamor among the post liberation youth of Silang for a path to continue their education beyond grade school level. What started out as a night school eventually gained official government recognition for a day high school. In this inception, CI was established primarily for the rural youths who had no access to secondary education due to their limited financial capability.
      During the first three decades of its existence (1950-1970), CI devoted itself to the education of the youth within the framework set by the Department of Education. The radical change in the social ferment of the 70s and the 80s was reflected in CIs vision, which expanded from being a traditional learning institution to one that contributed to social transformation. It begun to actively question how its curriculum could be made relevant to the needs of the time. CI established links with non-government organizations seeking alternative models of developments. In the 80s, to further its conscious foray into relevance, alternative agriculture was included in its curriculum. During this period, CI provide scholarship to eight Mangyan students from Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro. These boys eventually became key leaders of the Samahang Pangtribu ng mga Mangyan ng Mindoro. CIs vision continue to evolve and unfold. CI opened its eyes and its arms to include how the Filipino youths could contribute to sustainable development. On 22 April 1989, Cavite Institute, in partnership with socio-civic organizations, church and government units, spearheaded the First International Save the Earth Campaign in the Philippines ( Earth Day ) focusing on Global Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming as a Global Warning. School children and the youths constituted the bulk of the Save-the-Earth campaigners with their posters, slogans, dances, songs and signature collection of supporters. This paved the way for the declaration of 22nd of April of every year as the Cavite Provincial Earth Day. From then on, CI embarked on various environmental projects. Our laboratory activity on Phytochemical Screening taught our students the medicinal and chemical properties of local plants. Our research on genetic conservation of the traditional varieties of crops and other cultivars pioneered a province-wide science activity. The organization of the medicinal and science gardens as instructional materials was launched and implemented in both private and public schools.
      There is not a single year in the past six decades that CI did not receive a single award of recognition in academic, sports, arts and culture competition. These accolades of recognition are indicators of the school success and its outstanding record of achievement that has surpassed many other schools in Cavite. Living connectedness to the community in injected to its system through outreach programs where classroom learning and researches are brought into the community of Silang. This has served to promote and enhance the mutual learning cooperation between the school on one hand and the community on the other through seminars, consultation, conferences and home visitations. CI has also established linkages with other schools, education and community organizations, agencies and institutions within the province, the country and even abroad to further improve and enrich its educational services.
      It has been a long and uphill climb for the school. It has set a noble goal to be of service to the youth and the community. The demise of its founder, Mrs. ELISEA KIAMSON BELAMIDE did not dampen the spirit of those who were left behind. Her legacy serves to inspire them and to continue what she had started - that of providing service to the youth and the community.
      The Grade School Department was opened in 1986 to be able to contribute to a strong educational foundation of the grade school children. The learning continuum was so formulated to give them the opportunity to cope with the needs of the different stages of their development.
      The transfer of Cavite Institute to Barangay Iba in October 1987 gave birth to CI EKB HEIGHTS with the renewed strength of commitment to carry on despite attending difficulties and challenges. What appeared to be a geographical barrier did not deter the parents and children who continued to select CI as their school of choice.
      On august 15, 1994, the stockholders of the school made a landmark decision and unanimously approved the conversion of the 47-year old educational institution into a non-stock, non profit organization in order that its vision could be better realized. As the school celebrated its Golden Anniversary in 1997, the schools direction was reviewed given the changing demographics and the increasing likelihood that Cavite was going to be home of several larger institutions, each of them a potential competitor.
      As the school experiences the impact of the emergence of information and technology, it opens its door to new challenges and opportunities. It has become much more alert than ever before to finding ways to remain relevant to the life of its students and the community.
      We view education as an instrument in preparing and equipping the children with tools for life in every facet of life, hence the focus on multiple intelligences. The students are thus, given the opportunity to develop their full potential for a more meaningful and functional life after school. Toward this end, we have articulated the schools core values. Everybody in the school system is expected to live these values in their everyday interactions with each other:administrators, faculty, non-teaching staff and students. In June 2002, the ELISEA School of Creative Learning was born with goal of providing strong educational foundation for the three-to-four year old children. ELISEA was conceived as a multiple intelligence school, its intent explicitly focused on building the foundation for the development of the childrens intelligences beyond their logical-mathematical and linguistic smarts to include their interpersonal, intrapersonal, Naturalist, musical, bodily-kinesthetic and visual-spatial intelligences.
      As we face the early years of the new millennium , Cavite Institute has a vision that has sharpened with the times, values that inform its operations and the way it takes on the noble mission of education, and philosophy that is at once timeless, universal, and yet specific, relevant and meaningful to the lives of the people it directly affects: students, parents and the community in which the long arms of CIs positive influence breed, nurture and grow.