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2018/19 APCLC Scholar Practitioner Award
The Joseph Lau Luen Hung Charitable Trust Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change (APCLC) announces that Mr Daniel Chan Wing-kwong MH and Ms Leona Lam Wai Ling JP have been chosen as recipients of the 2018/19 APCLC Scholar Practitioner Award. This award is given annually to scholar-practitioners who have outstanding contributions, distinguished service, and professional excellence grounded in theory and research in the pursuit of school improvement and the betterment of student learning in Hong Kong and beyond.
Daniel has been a school principal for 35 years. In each and every school, he helped to improve learning opportunities and the lives of students, teachers and members of the broader community, leading with care and compassion while maintaining the highest of expectations. In the past three decades, Daniel has not only dedicated himself to the development of students, but he has also taken roles of Professional Consultant at Department of Educational Administration & Policy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Advisor of EdUHK’s Presidential Advisory Group. In 1999, Daniel received the Medal of Honour from HKSARG. In 2011 and 2014, Daniel was made a Fellow of EdUHK (the then HKIEd) and HKU Centre of Education Leadership, respectively. In 2016, he was made a Scholar Practitioner Fellow of APCLC.
Leona is founding principal of Tai Po Old Market Public School (Plover Cove) and founding member of The Hong Kong Principals’ Institute. In 1993, Leona received the Badge of Honor and was appointed of Justice of Peace in 2002. In 2013 and 2016, Leona was made a Fellow of EdUHK and Scholar Practitioner Fellow of the APCLC, respectively. Upon her retirement, she continued to work tirelessly on the front line of educational enterprise by taking up the roles of (i) school manager of Tai Po Old Market Pubic School (Plover Cove) and St. Francis of Assisi’s English Primary School, (ii) advisor of EdUHK Presidential Advisory Group, EdUHK School Partnership and Field Experience Office and Hong Kong Association of Deputy Principals and (iii) member of Tai Po and North District Social Welfare Planning Committee, Tai Po District Youth Programmes Committee and Tai Po District Arts Advancement Association.
As well as being outstanding principals and scholar-practitioners, focused firmly on improving student learning, Daniel and Leona have both dedicated incredible energy to building leadership capacity throughout Hong Kong. For more than ten years, they have been heavily engaged in the design, development and operation of a series of innovative leader development programmes for aspiring, serving and beginning principals. They have not only helped to design and contextualise these approaches but also have been key players in connecting these programmes to the broader school leadership community. They have acted as coordinators, mentors and instructors and worked closely with universities and other professional partners which have positively influenced the professional lives of many principals in Hong Kong. These programmes are widely recognised internationally and have engaged thousands of leaders since 2000.
Daniel and Leona’s achievements have made a significant mark on Hong Kong education. Perhaps their major contribution has been the formal and informal mentoring of practising and future principals and the leadership they have displayed within the broader education community. In choosing Daniel and Leona as the award recipients, we considered several accomplishments. They have demonstrated excellence in contributing knowledge by applying theory into practice and vice versa. Moreover, their efforts have substantively affected the operation and management of Hong Kong schools, and improved schools for the betterment of student outcomes.
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