How we started
The Education Hub. On 02 August 2016, Fr. Jose Villarin SJ, Ateneo de Manila University President, issued a memo on the appointment of the Assistant to the President for Education Development, where he reiterated the objective of the university’s Education Hub: “To bring together the University’s efforts in education reform in the country. Its work shall include academic, research, and social outreach functions that we deem essential and strategic to education development.”
Consultation with Stakeholders and Partners. For Academic Year 2016-17, we held a series of discussions with stakeholders and possible partners both within and outside the university. Worth mentioning are the conversations on the Ateneo de Manila philosophy of education and brand of teaching with 28 selected faculty members from the Loyola Schools (8 February and 6 March 2017) and 20 master teachers from the Ateneo Grade School (11 October 2016) and Ateneo Junior and Senior High School (12 October 2016).
Brainstorm with Teacher Education Leaders. From the 27th to 28th of July 2017, a brainstorming workshop on the proposed institute was conducted with twenty key leaders involved in the university’s teacher education and training in the various disciplines, where the participants reached a consensus on the nature of the Institute needed for our work in education. In attendance were three deans from the Loyola Schools (School of Humanities, School of Social Sciences, and School of Science and Engineering), five department chairs, four center directors (Formation Institute for Religious Education, the Ateneo Center for English Language Teaching, the Bulatao Psychology Center, and the Ateneo Teacher Center), and seven teacher educators/trainers.
The Ateneo SALT Team. In 2020, our team has grown to include the following: Rita Atienza (Director of the Ateneo Teacher Center, Coordinator for Teacher Education and Professional Development), Je Ching-Wu (Coordinator for Catholic and Ignatian Education), Len delos Santos (Senior Program Officer, Pathways to Higher Education), Jen Ferrer-Ramirez (Administrator), Fr. Johnny Go SJ (SALT Director), Galvin Ngo (Assistant SALT Director & Coordinator for Innovation and Ed Technology), Solvie Nubla-Lee (Director of Pathways to Higher Education), and Meg Villanueva (Graphic Designer).
What we are about
The Ateneo de Manila Institute for the Science and Art of Learning and Teaching—or the Ateneo SALT Institute—places issues of learning and teaching front and center on the university’s agenda.
We seek to promote the mindset that learning and teaching are both a science and an art.
We also hope to prioritize working on the challenges that the nation faces in education.
The member agencies of the Ateneo SALT Institute are the Loyola Schools of Humanities (English, Filipino, Theology, ACELT, and FIRE), Social Sciences (Education, History, Psychology, ATC, and the Bulatao Center for Psychology Services), and Science and Engineering, as well as the Loyola School of Theology.