ALIXANDER HABAN ESCOTE teaches Basic English and Technical Writing, Journalism and Print Media at the Makati Science High School, where he was hailed an outsanding teacher for 10 consecutive years from School Year 1997-1998 to School Year 2006-2007.

Under Mr Escote's direction, The Makati Science Vision, the official student publication of the Makati Science High School, which was adjudged the Best School Paper of the Year during the National Schools Press Conference (NSPC) in 2004, Fifth Best School Paper of the Year During the NSPC in 2005, and one of the five finalists in the Catholic Mass Media Awards Best Student Organ High School Category in 2007, 2006, and in 2004.

Following the success of The Makati Science Vision, he was recognized as one of the 17 Outsanding School Paper Advisers in the Philippines by the Department of Education (DepEd) and the National Secondary School Paper Advisers Association (NSSPA) in 2007 and Outstanding School Paper Adviser in the National Capital Region (NCR) by the DepEd-NCR and theNCRSSPAA in 2006. He was also named Best School Paper Adviser in the Philippines by the DepEd and the NSSPAA in 2005 and in 2004.

He was also named Outsanding High School Teacher if Makati in English by the Rotary Clubs of Makati West and Makati Dasmariñas in 2004, and Intel Teach to the Future Master Teacher and Makabagong Guro by the EduQuest Inc. in 2001 and in 1999, respectively.

Since 1997, The Makati Science Vision has won more than 100 national and regional awards in campus journalism and has produced three Teodoro Valencia Outstanding Student Journalists in the persons of Anna-Marie San Marcelino Villa, University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman comparatively literature graduate, Ivy Mae Cleopaz Vitanzos, UP Manila medicine student, and Don Michael Acelar De Leon, Ateneo De Manila University communication student.

Currently finishing his third book on A History of Print Journalism in the Philippines, Mr Escote has also published two books: the Spark of Hope: The Makati Science Vision Anthology of Student Essays in 2005 and The Makati Science Vision Manual of Style and Usage in 2004.

He was also a recipient of a cultural studies exchange program in Tokyo, Japan, from the NPO Tenshinkai in Tokyo, Japan, and the Welfare Integration Network in the City of Makati, Philippines and a Pearl: Integrating Journalism Into the Curriculum Online Professional Development Course Sponshorship fro the International Resource and Education Network.

As a college scholar, he is currently reading for his Master of Arts in Media Studies major in Journalism at the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication in Diliman, Quezon City.