News Coverage
YCIS re-examines the intersection of humanity and technology
May 13, 2022
Vic Lee, Founder of CATALYST Education Lab and Co-founder of Tencent, was invited as a keynote speaker at Yew Chung Yew Yah (YCYW) Education Network “Planet Leadership Series’ to share his insights on the relationship between humans and technology.
#futureofeducation
Compassionate Systems in Asia Pacific (Newsletter, Spring 2022)
Apr 9, 2022
The Compassionate Systems community of practitioners is flourishing in Asia Pacific, within which CEL is actively cultivating its growth in Hong Kong. Read the newsletter to understand more about the latest developments in different parts of Asia Pacific.
#compassionatesystems
瑪利曼中學 賦予學生自主權 (Marymount Secondary School empowers student agency)
December 21, 2021
Marymount Secondary School (MSS) is one of CEL’s partner schools. With the support of CEL, the school principal, Dr Daphne Ho, and the school has been actively learning and practising Compassionate Systems in their school community to cultivate deep thinking and well-being.
#compassionatesystems
獨家專訪漢基國際學校兩位校長 (Exclusive Video Interview of Chinese International School Head of Schools)
August 28, 2021
Chinese International School (CIS) is one of CEL’s partner schools. During the interview, Sean Lynch, CIS Head of School, shares his appreciation for being a part of CEL’s community, which enabled CIS to collaborate with local schools in building a better innovation ecosystem in the Hong Kong education space.
#principalroundtable
Envisioning Innovation in Education: New Collaborative Project for Hong Kong Schools
July 31, 2020
CEL announces a new collaborative inquiry with Project Zero, a research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (USA). The Envisioning Innovation in Education project has been established to promote and investigate the practices of inquiry, innovation, and learning design amongst a cohort of educators and a team of school principals representing a diverse array of learning environments in Hong Kong.
#projectzero #envisioninginnovationineducation #pzeie
【校園天地】真道書院讓學生有「夢」可追 (Logos Academy allows students to chase their “dreams’)
October 22, 2019
HKCCCU Logos Academy is one of CEL’s partner schools. With the support of CEL, the school was able to draw from advice from David Birnbach, an MIT faculty leading Action Learning experiences, to create fruitful project-based learning experiences for their students.
#mit #projectbasedlearning
Bringing physics and engineering to life for pK-12 students
October 16, 2019
CEL sponsored the MIT STEAM Camp, which brought together MIT faculty with 200+ middle-school aged students and 30+ educators from Hong Kong for two weeks of hands-on learning. This article interviewed Bahrudin Trabalic, one of the MIT students, who helped facilitate the MIT STEAM Camp.
#mit #steamcamp
Beyond Rubrics Journeys to Hong Kong
August 29, 2019
MIT’s Playful Journey Lab was involved in delivering the teacher’s professional development experience during MIT STEAM Camp. The Lab introduced the Beyond Rubrics toolkit, which includes a set of customizable assessment tools designed to help teachers, and students themselves, collect in-the-moment evidence of students demonstrating future-ready skills such as collaboration and risk-taking.
#mit #steamcamp
Catalyst Education Lab's hands-on, minds-on week in Cambridge
July 26, 2019
CEL brought 32 Hong Kong educators to MIT for one week of immersive hands-on experiences. Activities include learning from innovation hubs, developing skills to become change agents, developing project ideas for their schools and more.
#mit #jwel #projectbasedlearning
July 6, 2019
Educators from Marymount Secondary School, one of our Partner Schools, developed a fruitful project-based learning experience for their students. They drew from learnings from MIT J-WEL Week.
#projectbasedlearning
MIT STEAM Camp in Hong Kong blends mind and hand for middle school students
October 3, 2018
CEL sponsored the MIT STEAM Camp, which brought together MIT faculty with 200+ middle-school aged students and 30+ educators from Hong Kong for two weeks of hands-on learning.
#mit #steamcamp
J-WEL welcomes initial members
July 31, 2018
MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL) welcomed a diverse group of organizations into their member network. CEL was amongst the initial group of partners, along with other NGOs, universities, and companies from around the globe.
#mit #jwel