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  A multi-year study of how pre-service teachers learn to design for hybrid classrooms without losing the craft of presence.

  Department of Curriculum and Instruction · 2024–27

  Teacher education

  Reimagining Initial Teacher Education in a Digital Age

  A multi-year study of how pre-service teachers learn to design for hybrid classrooms without losing the craft of presence.

  Working with eight partner schools, the team traces the practicum as a site of digital judgement — when to reach for a tool, and when the room itself is the pedagogy. Findings inform a new studio course in the BEd.

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  Co-designing classroom routines, sensory supports and assessment with teachers so every learner can stay in the room.

  Department of Special Education and Counselling · 2023–26

  Inclusion

  Inclusive Classrooms for Neurodiverse Learners

  Co-designing classroom routines, sensory supports and assessment with teachers so every learner can stay in the room.

  An action-research network of 22 schools is testing low-cost adaptations — seating, task design, quiet corners — and measuring belonging as carefully as attainment.

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  How kindergartens hold Cantonese, English and home languages together without treating any as a deficit.

  Department of Early Childhood Education · 2022–26

  Early childhood

  Early Language in Multilingual Hong Kong

  How kindergartens hold Cantonese, English and home languages together without treating any as a deficit.

  Ethnographic work in twelve kindergartens maps the everyday talk of classrooms and families, informing a play-based language framework now piloted with the sector.

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  What middle leaders actually do between the staffroom and the principal’s office — and how faculties can prepare them.

  Department of Education Policy and Leadership · 2024–26

  Leadership

  Teacher Leadership for School Improvement

  What middle leaders actually do between the staffroom and the principal’s office — and how faculties can prepare them.

  Shadowing, interviews and a territory-wide survey surface the quiet work of curriculum coordination. A new short course for panel heads grew directly from the field notes.

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  Whole-school approaches that treat wellbeing as a curriculum question, not an add-on assembly.

  Department of Psychology · 2023–27

  Well-being

  Youth Mental Health and School Well-being

  Whole-school approaches that treat wellbeing as a curriculum question, not an add-on assembly.

  A randomised trial across 18 secondary schools tests a tutor-time programme co-written with students. Early results show gains in help-seeking and peer support, with no loss of instructional time.

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  Moving primary assessment from ranking to noticing — with tools teachers can use on a Tuesday morning.

  Department of Curriculum and Instruction · 2024–25

  Curriculum

  Assessment for Learning in the New Curriculum

  Moving primary assessment from ranking to noticing — with tools teachers can use on a Tuesday morning.

  Design-based research with 40 teachers has produced a compact AfL toolkit now adopted by a cluster of aided primary schools in the New Territories.

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  A comparative study of how schools in Hong Kong, Finland and Singapore teach the world without flattening it.

  Department of International Education · 2023–27

  International

  Global Citizenship without the Brochure

  A comparative study of how schools in Hong Kong, Finland and Singapore teach the world without flattening it.

  Classroom observation and student work across three systems ask what ‘international’ means when the class is already multilingual. A joint master’s module launches in 2027.

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  Rethinking home–school partnership beyond newsletters: families as co-authors of what schools teach.

  Department of Early Childhood Education · 2025–28

  Well-being

  Parents and Community as Curriculum Partners

  Rethinking home–school partnership beyond newsletters: families as co-authors of what schools teach.

  In three districts, parents, NGOs and teachers are building neighbourhood learning maps. The work is already changing how one BEd course teaches community engagement.