About GBSEALD
GBSEALD, the fifth Loyola School, constitutes the university's strategic response to the challenges of Philippine education and will enable us to address these challenges more effectively through what we hope will be a strong institutional identity and presence in the national educational landscape.
The naming is in recognition of the extraordinary donation from the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation (GBF) to establish the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation Endowment for Educational Innovation.
The new School will open its doors in August 2021, and will be more than just a “traditional” school of education:
- It will offer not only our current array of master’s degree programs in education, but also eventually, distinctive and cutting-edge undergraduate and doctoral programs. As its name suggests, its programs will promote the science and art of designing learning – an increasingly crucial competence among educators working in formal education, as well as among learning professionals in fields other than formal education.
- It will be purposefully multidisciplinary, drawing from the university’s expertise in a broad range of disciplines and coordinating the various efforts in the different schools in order to make significant research-based contributions in teacher education, curriculum reform, and policy making that respond to the country's needs.
- It will be explicitly mission-oriented, marshalling the university’s resources and expertise both in scholarship and in practice to build the capacity of our educational leaders, policy makers, and teachers – especially those serving in our public education system. Generous benefactors have already endowed this fledgling school with a substantial fund that will provide support to the brightest and most promising present and future educators and leaders in the field.
The Ateneo Teacher Center, the Ateneo SALT Institute, and Pathways for Higher Education will also move to this new School, and be the school's arms in teacher training, research and innovation, and outreach, respectively.
