Growing Curiosity & Building the Tribe + Friendship Quest. Sprint 3 Week 3

2019-01-19 | jiahong@acton

We are digging deep into Acton’s Learning Design. Last week, we looked into Maths. This week, we will investigate reading. Naturally, next week we will look into writing, as reading and writing are a tight pair of language skills that are essential to navigating the modern world. First, let’s understand what is reading. Reading, technically, […]

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Growing Curiosity & Building the Tribe + Friendship Quest. Sprint 3 Week 2

2019-01-12 | jiahong@acton

This blog post is the 2nd part of the Learning Design series blog that started last week. This week, we will cover Math. After that, there are snippets of ActonKL happenings! Look at the equation above. Math! This very word might trigger anxiety. Or you might be a Math nerd and love to teeth into these

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Growing Curiosity & Building the Tribe + Friendship Quest. Sprint 3 Week 1

2019-01-05 | jiahong@acton

Happy New Year! Welcome to Sprint 3 of 2018/9 calendar cycle! This post and the next eleven blog post will take a twist. The first half of the blog post will be about Acton Academy’s Learning Design. In between, I will share the weekly activities as concrete examples. The second half is about the remainder

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Proving One’s Worth—Part 2

2016-04-28 | jiahong@acton

The #1 question that any educator or parent ask: without a standardized test, how does one prove his/ her education? Previously, we explored this question and chose to ask “how do you prove one’s worth?” instead. This post explains how Acton Academy do it.

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Proving One’s Worth—Part 1

2016-04-26 | jiahong@acton

The #1 question that any educator or parent ask: without a standardized test, how does one prove his/ her education? In this two-part series, we seek to first explore this question and second, to give an answer based on a deeper question “how do you prove one’s worth?”.

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Growing Curiosity & Building the Tribe + Friendship Quest. Sprint 3 Week 3

Growing Curiosity & Building the Tribe + Friendship Quest. Sprint 3 Week 2

Growing Curiosity & Building the Tribe + Friendship Quest. Sprint 3 Week 1

Proving One’s Worth—Part 2

Proving One’s Worth—Part 1