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Centre News

APCLC-EPL Webinar:
Leading School Innovation in Times of Emergency

The education community has been facing unprecedented challenge and disruption caused by the Covid-19 outbreak. To support schools and education professionals, the Department of Education Policy and Leadership (EPL), in collaboration with The Joseph Lau Luen Hung Charitable Trust Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change (APCLC), invites your participation in a webinar that will share insight on how the current challenge can stimulate organizational and professional practices for educational improvement. This forum will facilitate discussions on innovation from the perspectives of leadership, professional learning community and policy.
			Registration / Enquiry: Tel: 2948 8008 or eplcommunity@eduhk.hk www.eduhk.hk/epl

Run-down
Innovation and Leadership - Finding Opportunity in Crisis

1.	Leading schools in and out of crisis Prof Allan Walker		This section considers the potential impact of crises on leadership and innovation. We propose that unexpected challenges can push us to act in new ways by asking: when meaningful practices flood our schools and lead to improvement, can we return easily to the previous ways? To follow, we clarify teacher innovation and explain an emerging and exciting process to collectively applying novel, useful ideas in any area of school life, and conclude by considering leadership strategies for sustaining successful new practices and innovations in schools.
2.	Innovation in schools as an emerging process Dr Lu Jiafang
3.	Adapting to crisis: Integrating emerging practices in school Dr Darren Bryant

Innovation and Professional Learning Communities

4.	School improvement with professional learning communities Dr Ho Chun Sing, Dr Lee Hui Lin and Dr Tang Hei Hang		School suspension has the potential to challenge and inspire teachers’ understanding of professional learning. In this session, we illustrate how a professional learning community can contribute to teacher innovation in this challenging period. We explore how teachers can work together to build a shareable and storable knowledge base and share some illustrative examples from Shanghai. We then show a knowledge management toolkit that we have developed to support teachers in reaching and assessing their school-based management and professional standards targets.
5.	Building shareable and storable knowledge base: Why and how? Dr Qian Haiyan
6.	A knowledge management visualization toolkit Dr Ko Yue On

Innovation and Policy

7.	A note for policy reflections: Grammar of schooling Dr Yuen Wai Kwan		Crises disrupt familiar structures, rules and practices—the grammar of schooling—often taken for granted when conceiving potential innovations. The current emergency has brought to the surface tensions that affect students, teachers, parents and schools. Short-term measures may address these, but innovations in the best interests of students call upon a professional commitment to re-examine school and government policies to facilitate deep and sustainable change. Accordingly, we explore the grammar of schooling that influences teacher well-being, community and family support, diversity and inclusion, and stakeholder collaboration.
8.	Caring for teachers: Resilience and wellbeing Dr Chen Junjun
9.	Family and community support for students of different backgrounds Dr Lee Tsz Lok
10.	Education in emergencies: Ethnic minority students and their families Dr Miron Bhowmik
11.	Collaboration between schools and third parties against the pandemic and beyond Dr Choi Taehee