What is Trading Places?

Trading Places is a quarterly publication comprising a collection of articles written by and for school leaders across the Greater Bay Area (GBA). The idea is that leaders will learn from professional and personal sharing across traditional boundaries and systems and have the chance to showcase exciting innovations in their schools. There are thousands of schools in the GBA. Each school has its own stories of change, success, and struggle. However, these stories often stay trapped inside school or district walls, robbing other educators of the opportunity to learn from their colleagues and improve the quality of education in their schools. Trading Places encourages successful schools, school principals and other educators to share their stories across the GBA and beyond. Such sharing aims to promote discussion, innovation and understanding among GBA educators.

Trading Places is published by the Joseph Lau Luen Hung Charitable Trust Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change and Department of Education Policy and Leadership at The Education University of Hong Kong. The publication is part of a broader, future-oriented strategy - including a forum series, a social media presence and research agenda – designed to demonstrate our dedication to ground-up, networked school leader learning across the GBA. We strongly believe that the open sharing of wisdom by school leaders across this diverse area has the potential to impact GBA students, schools, and communities positively.

Trading Places will be distributed widely and freely across the GBA. So if you have something exciting happening in your school or some wisdom you’d like to share with your colleagues, we’d love to hear from you.