Dhanya’s Girl Guide Plastic Tide Turners Badge – a 14-year-old’s Acton Academy Journey

2021-01-30 | IT Admin

This is a guest post by Dhanya, a 14-year-old Launchpad Eagle who is pursuing her passions by integrating experiences from both Acton Academy and Girl Guides. These experiences are driving her Next Great Adventure (NGA). She shares her story, and also lessons learned. Coming from a traditional government elementary school background, my education experience was […]

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Acton Academy’s Mission: Find a Calling, Change the World

2018-01-24 | jiahong@acton

Acton Academy’s Mission: Each person who enters our doors will find a calling that will change the world. What does it exactly mean? Why every person; not just the Eagles? What is a calling? Why change the world? Isn’t that too grandiose? Are there not callings that do not change the world? I wanted to

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ActonKL Founding Story : Part 3 – Growing Experiments

2017-12-09 | jiahong@acton

In June 2015, I left banking for the second time to do “peer learning” experiments. Like my travels 3.5 years earlier, I gave myself two years. After the Ramly Burger experiments, we explored further with two private groups. One with a church group and another with Caryn’s private tutoring group. It was tough engagement, due to language

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ActonKL Founding Story : Part 2 – The First Experiment

2017-11-25 | jiahong@acton

We ended the first post with this question: Can students teach each other, instead of having teachers? I was inspired by nature. Exactly, it was an army of ants that found an impossibly connected path during one of the many hiking sessions with Shien Jin. The way the ants solved problems, signaled each other, worked together

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ActonKL Founding Story : Part 1 – Inspiration from Children

2017-11-16 | jiahong@acton

What were the origins of Acton Academy Kuala Lumpur (ActonKL)? Here’s a short answer: “Curiosity, experiments, and the inspiration from resourceful children around the world, and a lot of luck…” OK, here’s the longer version. As promised a few weeks ago, I am going to tell you this story over a few blog posts. Here’s part

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Eagle’s Courage

2017-09-29 | jiahong@acton

Last week, one parent quoted our blog post. The real challenge for us (Acton Academy KL) is to forge character by encouraging Eagles to take the courage to make decisions and commitments. So they can take the step forward, to become who they are meant to be—their calling. Coincidentally, we asked Acton Academy KL parents:

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What’s in the Logo?

2016-04-15 | jiahong@acton

How did a triangle, square and a circle come together? Here is our story of learning, doing and design. Before Acton Academy, the team started with peer learning experiments. Inspired by ants, it was aptly named Ant Learning. Initially, we focused on mathematics, specifically geometry for 10–13 years old. While we drew inspirations from the

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