At the time of interviewing personalities from the town, including Mr. Emilio Contreras, a local figure, who has been president of the community action board for several years, Mrs. Gloria del Carmen Ortiz Guzmán, who has lived in the town almost all her life, we found some coincidences regarding the foundation of the corregimiento.
The Corregimiento Kilómetro 12
was founded around the 1930s, at that time it was just a small village, which
was part of the Cerrito Corregimiento, in which some families lived, such as
the Martínez, Perdomo, Vega, Plaza, and the Soto families.
On March 13, 2004, by agreement
0001, Kilometer 12 became a corregimiento and the villages of Loma Grande, Las
Pulgas, Chispas-Las Palmitas, Chispas-Catalina, Chispas-La Gloria, and Kilómetro 15 were added.
Kilometer 12 Educational Institution
The Institución Educativa Kilómetro 12 is located in the Municipality of Montería, Department of
Córdoba, Colombia, guides its INSTITUTIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROJECT (PEI),
according to social participation, educational management, the situation of
human resources (teachers, students, parents, and graduates) in relation to the
projection of actions, the treatment of the environment and the socio-cultural
environment.
At the end of the 60s, more
specifically in 1968, a group of people concerned about the community's education proposed the construction of a school that would be located in the
area, and that is how the movement began. Pro-school with the participation of
the Ministry of Education, city politicians, and the community in general.
The name of the school at that time was Escuela Rural Mixta Kilómetro Doce.
The first school teachers were Noris Pérez de Nieto and Placidia Rojas Martínez.
On December 31, 1992, by agreement No. 025, the Institution was created with the name of "Colegio Municipal de Bachillerato Diversificado Centro de Orientación Juvenil"
On December 12, 1993, its name was changed to Colegio Municipal de Bachillerato Miguel Escobar Méndez.
Two years later and by means of agreement 023 of August 17, 1995, its name was changed to Colegio Municipal de Bachillerato Kilómetro Doce.
The school grew and on November 27, 1998, the Kilometer Escuela Rural Mixta Kilómetro Doce and the Colegio Municipal de Bachillerato Kilómetro Docewere unified into a single institution and it was called Educación Básica Kilómetro Doce, where educational services continued to be provided at the different levels of preschool, basic primary, and basic secondary.
On November 22, 2006, through resolution 4727, he obtained
recognition for the middle school level, grades 10 and 11.
Today, the name of the school is Institución Educativa Kilómetro 12.
Our school has had 5 school principals,
The first one
was Alba Gómez,
The second, the
teacher Bertilda,
The third Carlos
González Oquendo,
The fourth, was Lorenzo
Miguel Martínez Quiroz, who was in this
position for 22 years.
And nowadays
the School principal is Ela Cecilia López Escudero, who was hired for the
position in 2021.
Principles Taking into account
that education is a process of permanent formation, the Kilómetro Doce
Educational Institution aims to train a student who values and respects the
Constitution, develops cognitive, moral and affective aspects, allowing him to
be an active and participatory member of society, capable of making
decisions at a given moment with criteria, conscience and an analytical sense.
Likewise, a thinking human being capable of defending his rights and duties with
dignity will be formed. The principles that guide the educational community
are:
• The full development of the
personality.
• Respect for human rights.
• Training for democracy and
social coexistence.
• Respect for the environment.
• Practice tolerance and
peaceful coexistence.
• Formation of cultural
identity.
• Recognition and respect for
attention to diversity.
• Rescue of ethical and moral
values.
• Training in critical and
analytical thinking.
• Knowledge of the Political
Constitution.
• Promotion of education for
peace and social solidarity.
Philosophy
The Kilometer Twelve Educational
Institution of an official nature and a mixed nature promotes the training of
men and women who build an ethic of coexistence, committed to leading the
transformation processes of society to build a better future.
Mission
The Kilometer 12 Educational
Institution is an official rural school whose mission is to comprehensively
train girls, boys, and young people in basic, civic, and labor skills;
strengthening the foreign language and based on the social-cognitive
pedagogical model, with the inclusion of young people and adults in a situation
of illiteracy or with incomplete schooling that allows them to perform with
high academic and sociocultural skills, to improve their quality of life and
that of their environment and access technical, technological and higher
education.
Vision
To be a leading Institution by
the year 2025 in the comprehensive training of children and young people in the
region, recognized for its high academic level, with the strengthening of the
foreign language and their insertion into the labor market and higher education,
supported by articulation programs and flexible models.
Values
Love, responsibility, respect, tolerance, solidarity, and
leadership.
