WLSA上海（复旦）学校于2012年9月在上海复旦附中进修学校开设的国际高中课程项目。WLSA课程的研发及在WLSA 复旦的实施，获得了以美国格罗顿中学、美国哈佛西湖中学、英国伊顿公学、中国复旦附中为代表的世界知名中学和以耶鲁大学、芝加哥大学、康奈尔大学、范德堡大学等为代表的世界顶尖大学和权威机构的鼎力支持。WLSA GIP是整个WLSA 课程体系的核心，由一系列以技能为主、跨学科的科目组成，旨在培养中国学生在全球化背景下能力及素养的全面提升，并更好地传承中国文化精髓。技能拓展、伦理哲学、思辨、跨文化理解能力、战略研究。

从2015年的第一届毕业生开始，WLSA学子收获了普林斯顿大学、耶鲁大学、麻省理工学院、芝加哥大学、斯坦福大学等顶级美国大学的录取。这也充分说明了通过WLSA课程培养出来的学子深受美国顶级大学的青睐。

WLSA上海（复旦）学校以《2020中国国际学校竞争力排行榜》美国本科方向第16名、《2020中国国际学校创新竞争力百强榜》全国第15名的实力，在京领榜单发布会暨诺奖创新论坛上，WLSA上海（复旦）学校校长Tony Little受邀作为全国名校代表，在京领诺奖创新论坛上，与3位诺奖得主、哈佛、剑桥大学讲席教授同台进行主旨演讲。

在此，京领独家放送WLSA上海（复旦）学校校长Tony Little的精彩演讲，以飨读者。

大家好，很高兴能在此分享一些关于青少年的创新发展以及如何促进青少年教育质量的观点和看法。创新意味着引进新的东西，这是对一个想法的实践以及一种新的看世界的方式。与此同时创新也意味着以某种方式改变或修改既定惯例。有时可能在一个尤里卡时刻，一个很大的启示骤然发生，但更多的时候，它是一件件小的事情、小的改变。但是所谓的单峰聚集定律可以是变革性的，1%的进步，在经历一遍遍的重复和提升之后会有质的飞跃。所以我们能为青少年做些什么呢？

下面我给大家讲三个例子，两个是英国的事情，一个发生在中国。第一个是有关一个学生活动场地，活动中心，第二个是关于一个项目，第三个是关于更深层次的东西，一种文化

第一个例子有关于我曾经在英国工作的一个学校。多年前我是那个学校的校长，并且这所学校是世界上最成功以及最有名的学校之一，这所学校已经拥有600年建校历史。在各方面都完善并领先的情况下，招生从不是这所学校的问题。但正是在学校最鼎盛的时期，学校更应认真考虑振兴自己，要永远去寻找是否有其他更好的方式来做事。不要坐在你的桂冠之上，不要等着其他人追赶并超越你，重新思考，突破自己。

正是基于此，我们在Eton为学生建立了专门的创新和研究中心，这所中心我们学校的老师和学生天天都会经过，所以这个建筑也代表着创新的重要性。设在学校的中间正是为了表明创新对于我们而言的重要性。这是一个很灵活的空间，学生和老师可在这里分享观点，介绍新的科技技术，以及大家可以在这里尝试新的方法来学习和工作。这种“玩”的想法非常重要。有时候较为困难的是，在某些时期部分家长认为，孩子们把精力放在课本和课堂之外，都是浪费时间甚至是不利的。但我已经在学校系统里四十年了，我并没有学到这些。这些时候的“玩”是有益处的，学生在校外组织活动，进行讨论，在教室以外的地方上课等等，这些对孩子的成长往往产生了更大的效果。所以让学生和老师们去用新的方法“玩”是很重要的。

我的第二个例子也来自英国，是有关于英国北部曼彻斯特市的一些公立学校。学校的在校生来自不同家庭背景，大部分的学生来自生活不富裕以及没有足够设备的家庭，他们想鼓励所有学生都能够在最高水平之上竞赛，并使他们的思维方式不同于其他人，并使他们的思维方式不同于其他人，因此他们引入了Apatura项目。这个项目包含三个要素。

第一点是学生自愿在课后做额外的课业和活动。这是第一个障碍。但是年轻人必须克服并愿意花时间去做一些不同的事情。学生们首先被分到不同的小组中，他们一起探讨课业问题，但后来这些话题慢慢延伸到其他话题中。在这期间，学生们聆听、发表评论和批评的能力是被鼓励的。

这个项目的第二个要素是学生们可独立自主的讲授一个课程系列。学生邀请参会嘉宾、学生安排策划、学生准备问题和答案。组织这场活动的学生可以体现出他们的组织能力。他们从原来是课堂的接受方调整了角色，从而换了种方式去思考问题。

第三要素是一个研究项目，学生需要证明他们在以全新的、不同的方式思考他们感兴趣的事物。

我的第三个例子来自中国。我刚才已经描述了一个建筑是创新的象征。另一个是一个项目代表了创新，下面要介绍的是在WLSA也被称为上海（复旦）学校里面， 有一个项目是所有学生都必须参加的，这也是整个学校的核心。这是一所不以营利为目的的学校，招收了来自中国各地的学生，并且在大学海外安置方面取得了良好的成绩。成功的部分关键因素就是它的全球影响力项目。如今，这个项目有多样的元素。它提供了一项技能计划，因此扎根于学术能力方面的基本技能。但这不仅如此，项目里面有一项活动是根据中国历史上的事件进行战略决策，以及还有一门很好书法课，学生们可在课程中学习辩论和真正地聆听彼此，从而激发更多新的想法。并且另外一个项目是让学生了解全世界社会问题的异同，以及还有一个关于道德哲学的项目，探讨道德责任，让学生了解在复杂的世界中能够行使自己的是非观念。然后在学期末的项目中，把以上所有这些融合，从而学生们在这个过程中拥有了一个真正的可继发身心补充的过程。敏捷的思维、愿意接受新鲜事物的开放心态、好奇心都是重要的技能，这些都终会指向创新。

在我们WLSA，我们有个项目，创新便是它的核心，是学校DNA的一部分，创新在我们中间。  

Hello. I’m pleased to be able to share some thoughts with you about how we develop innovative practice in our young people and improve the quality of their education. Innovation is introducing something new, it is a practice of an idea, a way of seeing the world. But it's also about altering or amending established practice in some ways. Sometimes this can be a eureka moment when a great revelation comes to you. But more often it's a small thing, a small change. But what is called the law of mynute aggregation can be transformative. A 1% improvement that is repeated or achieved in a different way over a period of time can produce major changes. So how do we do this for our young people?

I'd like to give you three examples, two of them are from the UK and one is from China. One of them is about a physical place, a student activity center. The second is about a program. The third is about something deeper, a type of culture.

My first example is in a college in the UK. I was headmaster there some years ago, and it's one of the most successful and famous schools in the world. It has been in existence for almost 600 years. It's so well established that recruiting students is never a big issue.

But it is exactly at the peak time that a school institution should think seriously about reinvigorating itself always looking to see if there is a different or a better way to do things. Don't sit on your laurels. Don't wait for everyone else to chase after you and overtake you. Think of refreshing yourself.

For that reason, we created the center for innovation and research for the students at Eton, it’s right in the middle of the school. It's a building that teachers and students pass every day. So it makes a symbolic statement about the importance of innovation. lying right in the middle of the school also indicates the importance of innovation for us. It's a space which is flexible  where students and teachers can go to share ideas, where they can introduce new technologies, where they can try out different ways of doing things. This idea of play is very important. It's sometimes difficult in a period when parents think that any activity outside the academic curriculum is a waste of time or a danger. But I've been in schools for over 40 years and I've learned nothing about that. At this time, “playing” could be beneficial, Students organize events, conduct conversations, and have lessons outside the campus, these often have the most powerful effect on children’s growth. So allowing time for teachers and students to play with creative ideas is very important.

My second example is also from the UK it comes from a group of public schools in the city of Manchester in the North of England. Students there come from many different types of backgrounds often from poor backgrounds where there is no technology available at home. They want to encourage all students to be able to compete at the highest levels. and to have thinking patterns that are different from other people, So they introduce something called the Apatura Program. This program has three elements.

First of all, students volunteer to take on extra work and activity after school. That is the first hurdle. But young people have to overcome difficulties and be willing to commit time to doing something different. To begin with, students are placed into small groups. They discuss academic matters, but that leads to a wide range of other topics During this time, students are encouraged to listen, to comment, and to criticize.

The second element of the program is a lecture series entirely run by the students. Students invite distinguished speakers, make the arrangements, and organize questions and answers. It is the students who take ownership of the event and who have showed the ability to organize. They have changed their original role of a “passive recipient.” and began to think from different perspectives.

The third element is a research project where students need to demonstrate that they are thinking in a fresh, new, or different way about things that interest them.

My third example is from China, I've described one situation where there is a building that represents innovation. Another is a voluntary program that encourages innovation. But here in Shanghai in the World Leading Schools Association academy known is also Fudan also Shanghai academy. There is a program which is mandatory for all students to take, which is at the very heart of the entire school. This is a non-profit school that takes students from all over China and which has great achievements in overseas university placement. Part of the keys to success is the global impact program. Now this program has a variety of elements. It offers a skill program, so basic skills in terms of academic competence are rooted. But it goes further. It has an exercise in strategic decision making based on events in Chinese history. It has a very good course known as calligraphy in which students learn to debate and really to listen to each other in order to stimulate new ideas. It has a program that looks at a simulation and difference in societies around the world. It has a program on moral philosophy which discusses about ethical responsibility, and help students understand what is right and wrong in the complicated world. Then it merges all those things together into the capstone project at the end of the course. What you have is a process which genuinely stimulates a supplements of mind. It is that being nimble, being agile, being open to new experience, curious, inquisitive. These are the critical elements that lead to innovation.

And here in Wilson Shanghai Academy, we have a program in which innovation lies at its core is part of the DNA of school experience. Innovation is right at the center of us.