A few days ago, the meeting of launching the three-year action plan of a new round of high school education quality improvement in Hongkou District was held. Yin Houqing, Vice President of the China Education Association and President of the Shanghai Education Association, Chen Xiaojie, Deputy Governor of Hongkou District, and Wang Yang, President of the Shanghai Teachers' Education Institute attended the meeting. Relevant officials of Hongkou District Education Bureau and main principals of high schools in Hongkou attended the meeting.
With the consent of the Hongkou District Party Committee and the Hongkou District Government, the Hongkou District Education Work Party Committee and Hongkou Education Bureau formulated the Three-year Action Plan for Improving the Quality of High School Education in Hongkou District (2022-2024 Academic Year) on the goal of improving the quality of high school education in Hongkou District.
The action plan aimed to build first-class high schools, cultivate top innovative talents, and optimize the district-school teaching research model; it took renovating the schools’ educational methods, cultivating top innovative talents, and co-building high-quality brand disciplines as the main task.
In order to make the action plan to be truly implemented, a working group was established, with the main official of Hongkou District Education Bureau as the team official; also participating in the plan were the heads of relevant offices, the education supervision office, the education college, the education information center, and the education affairs center of the education bureau, as well as senior high schools. A 27-experts team headed by Yin Houqing was build, including the reform guidance tutor, the school development tutor and the teacher growth tutor. They were responsible for carrying out thematic training and guidance, conducting research in schools and guiding the formulation of "one policy for one school", and carrying out the discipline teaching evaluation and the guide of teaching. At the kick-off meeting, Hongkou District Education Bureau issued letters of appointment to the members of the expert team.
According to Hongkou District Education Bureau, the three-year action plan will be implemented and promoted in three stages. All high schools in the district will continue to make efforts in higher quality education and teaching, and running schools more efficiently according to the supporting key projects and the list of "double new" implementation projects, and further improve the service of high school education with high-quality development. After three-year efforts, it is believed to achieve the general goal of two maintenances and another breakthrough.