DepEd–Microsoft Partnership Equips 1 Million Filipino Teachers with Microsoft Copilot

On 26 August 2026, the Philippine Department of Education (DepEd) and Microsoft announced an expanded partnership to give one million Filipino public-school teachers access to Microsoft Copilot, positioning the rollout as part of DepEd's agenda for an AI-enabled school system.

Equip teachers to use Copilot for lesson planning, assessment drafting, communications and summarising student progress, reducing administrative workload.

The Copilot access follows a nationwide AI-literacy training programme DepEd ran earlier in 2026: a main training event drew almost 75,000 live participants, more than 175,000 educators registered in total, and the National Educators' Academy of the Philippines extended the curriculum asynchronously nationwide. A related Microsoft-supported literacy initiative piloted Reading Progress and Reading Coach over 21 weeks across 8 regions, training over 2,100 teachers and processing 8,381 reading submissions from 3,431 students.

Of the students reassessed in the 21-week reading pilot, 780 showed improvement (319 moved up a reading level, 461 improved within their level), and 91.5% of participating teachers reported satisfaction with the tools.

The reading pilot ran without a control group, so the reading gains cannot be attributed to the AI tools alone, and no comparable outcome data yet exists for the wider 1-million-teacher Copilot rollout itself.