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Joint Polytechnic Academy for Educators (JP-AcE)

School Leadership Move-In Programmes (SLMP)

For School Leaders in Polytechnics

Last updated on 24 August 2026
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About the Programme

The School Leadership Move-in Programme (SLMP) is a joint-polytechnic professional development programme for new and potential School Leaders. It aims to build important T&L leadership capabilities in the areas of:

Driving Educational Change

To be drivers of change for T&L improvement and innovation.

Driving T&L Quality

To evaluate and enhance School's T&L quality for alignment with Institution's direction, to achieve institutional goals.

Shaping T&L Culture

To shape a desired T&L culture within the school.

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SLMP Intake 3 Participants at The Greenhouse (Republic Polytechnic)

Programme Delivery

SLMP is conducted mainly through face-to-face sessions with hands-on activities and discussions.

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Intake 3 Participants sharing on their leadership journeys with each other.

Programme Structure and Duration

Duration

SLMP is a 160-hour programme that takes place over a period of 7 months. The inaugural Intake 1 was conducted in Nov 2021. This programme typically runs once a year and the timing of the runs is dependent on the needs of the polytechnic sector. There are 4 intakes to date with Intake 4 held from Oct 2025 to May 2026.

Structure of SLMP

SLMP starts with a five-day onboarding programme where emerging school leaders from the five polytechnics will delve into concepts of educational change, teaching and learning (T&L) quality and T&L culture. The onboarding programme is designed to inspire, challenge, intrigue, and encourage them through the varied experiences such as

  1. Fireside Chats with PCEOs;

  2. Workshops on Educational Change, Quality & Culture;

  3. Panel Discussions with external and internal guests; and

  4. Learning Journeys

These experiences have been designed to build upon each other, and to enable new School Leaders to reflect upon their T&L leadership journey. They provide the School Leaders with frameworks and toolkits, which the School Leaders can make use of in the course of their T&L leadership work.

With the intent to make the SLMP unique, experiential and beyond conventional, sit-down workshops, a significant proportion of the SLMP anchors on the 7-month long practicum. The new School Leaders are to work on T&L projects (driven by or aligned to their respective institution’s and school’s directives) that they need to lead/ undertake in their workplace, which are aligned to the broad T&L themes defined by the polytechnic sector.

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SLMP Intake 4: Fireside chat with NYP PCEO, Mr Russell Chan

Have a question related to SLMP?

Please contact Programme Leads: Ms Patricia Kong , Dr Loke Han Ying