IN the time of Covid-19 pandemic, entrepreneurs need to be nimble, innovative and dynamic.
As far as AHEAD Alpha founder and President Rosanna Llenado is concerned, the major online learning center has launched on May 8, 2020 a program that will merge school practices used in different parts of the world.
Aptly named AHEAD Alpha, it merges the best practices through purely online teaching instructions. “AHEAD Alpha pioneers its one-of-a-kind learning method, where traditional, progressive, and home-school education are combined to work in the Philippine context amid the pandemic,” Llenado told the BusinessMirror in a Sunday online interview.
The world-class teaching methods include the following:
- Japanese Student Development—It focuses on value-formation in the early stages of childhood;
- Northern European Teaching—It teaches trainors to the learning styles of students; and
- Singapore Math—It aims to build on a student’s mastery of foundational concepts of mathematics.
As an educator, Llenado pointed out that she wanted to think of a way of making education accessible yet exceptional. As a mother herself, she is aware that most parents are scared and reluctant of allowing their children to go back to school immediately, even when the enhanced quarantine is lifted.
“Though traditional education has been directly affected by the global crisis, AHEAD’s foresight and advanced preparation to situations like this allowed the center to adapt to the situation and seamlessly migrate to a purely online educational system,” Llenado stressed.
Llenado, who founded AHEAD when she was 26, will be joined by two renowned Filipina educators whose experience include running two of the country’s top educational institutions—Dr. Cornelia C. Soto and Lilia Vengco.
Soto was the chairman of the Ateneo education department and the former Assistant Headmaster of its grade school.
Vengco served as principal of La Salle Greenhills and the founding principal of De La Salle University Canlubang.
Both former chairmen of Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges, and Universities, Soto and Vengco have previously worked with Llenado, helping her establish a pre-school 18 years ago and cofounding an organization that trains teachers and principals with her in 2005.
For the continuity of inspirational education, AHEAD Alpha promotes non-graded assessments (students are promoted to the next grade using PEPT/DepEd test), a progressive curriculum, and unique application of Singapore Math and Mind-Mapping and Speed Reading techniques for Science where every students’ needs will be met with the best education each one deserves.
“For almost 25 years, we have been helping students from different schools, guiding over 100,000 examinees pass their college entrance exams, assisting young students daily with their academic assignments, and continuously supporting homeschooler families. With these achievements, we are confident to say that we know what we are doing,” Llenado said.
“We want to produce leaders who are creative and critical thinkers. We want our students to have proper values and be aware of the UNDP [United Nations Development Program] developmental goals which are to care about the environment and society,” she added.
With its first round of classes going live on June 8, 2020, Llenado said, AHEAD Alpha has consolidated its curriculum and is now preparing unique lesson plans meant to educate every child the best way possible.
Using established online systems, progressive lessons, and the concrete goal of making kids love learning again, AHEAD Alpha will surely make a big difference during this unprecedented time.
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