Past and ongoing projects

'Advancing subject head capacity with the insight of GBA practices'
middle leaders training programme

The ‘Advancing teaching capacity with the insight of GBA practices’ middle leaders training programme is a teacher professional development programme aiming to train subject heads to become facilitators in their subject panels. Participants will attend a series of workshops and consultation sessions, accompanied by peer lesson observation sessions and a one-day visit to schools in the GBA.

It features on-job-training, leadership-informed training, tools for coordinators to better understand their team and feedback from subject experts.

Educational Administration and Management Course
for Senior School Administrators in Secondary Schools

The course aims to enhance participants' effectiveness upon promotion to PGM/SEO. Based on research and insights from industry, the course focuses on four objectives. Participants gain mentoring skills and strengthen collegial support. They engage in self-reflection for personal and professional growth. Effective approaches to address school concerns are explored. Networking with educators and universities fosters inspiration and experience exchange. By course end, participants possess the tools to excel as senior executives, positively contributing to their schools' development.

Professional Development Course
for Secondary School Graduate Teachers

The course aims to enhance participants' effectiveness upon promotion to SGM/EO. Based on research and insights from industry, the course focuses on four objectives. Participants gain mentoring skills and strengthen collegial support. They engage in self-reflection for personal and professional growth. Effective approaches to address school concerns are explored. Networking with educators and universities fosters inspiration and experience exchange. By course end, participants possess the tools to excel as senior executives, positively contributing to their schools' development.

Leadership Development Programme
for Middle Leaders of Primary Schools

The course aims to enhance participants' effectiveness upon promotion to SPSM. Based on research and insights from industry, the course focuses on four objectives. Participants gain mentoring skills and strengthen collegial support. They engage in self-reflection for personal and professional growth. Effective approaches to address school concerns are explored. Networking with educators and universities fosters inspiration and experience exchange. By course end, participants possess the tools to excel as senior executives, positively contributing to their schools' development.

'Advancing teaching capacity in catering learning diversity'
subject head training programme

'Advancing teaching capacity in catering learning diversity' subject head training programme a leadership learning project aims at training subject heads to become facilitators in their subjects to promote subject members’ teaching capacity.

With the EdUHK team guidance, teachers embed the adaptive and blended learning pedagogy into teaching. Teacher leaders will design a framework to enhance colleagues’ teaching capacity and form systematic measures by applying leadership skills.

Service Leadership 3Cs for Entrepreneurial Teacher Leaders

Service Leadership 3Cs for Entrepreneurial Teacher Leaders is a leadership learning project designed to train school leaders to develop and accomplish innovative school initiatives.

This project provides a comprehensive study of current theories and applied research in middle leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurialism. It reveals practices and principles of organisational restructuring, organisational development, and innovation, presenting strategies for supporting entrepreneurialism in educational organisations (edupreneurialism).

School-based Middle Leaders Training

The project involved 284 hours of meetings, workshops, consultations and sharing sessions were conducted with a total beneficiary of 318 teachers. With the support of the project team, these schools now have a clearer understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of their schools, then revise the major concerns, and formulate feasible and effective initiatives to fulfil the major concerns with their improved understanding of their school.

Developing Middle Leaders as Entrepreneurial Teachers

This project aims to apply the research findings on edupreneur, in particular, to support middle leadership development in schools. The project team employs a practice-oriented approach to guide teachers’ professional reflection that can be used to review and develop middle and teacher leaders as ‘Edupreneurs’ in schools.