HENRY TOI

is the Executive Director of The Art Costa Centre For Thinking. He is also the founder of Nurture Craft and One Education, both group of companies are dedicated to the advancement of effective education.

He graduated from the National University of Singapore with an honours degree in Engineering and also obtained his Master of Education from the RMIT University in Melbourne.

Henry is an accredited trainer on the Habits Of Mind, by Dr. Arthur Costa and a certified administrator for the Multiple Intelligences Developmental Assessment Scales by Dr. Branton Shearer. He is also a Buzan licensed instructor.

Henry has conducted numerous in-house trainings and public workshops in schools in Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong. He has also published several books, including Fulfilling Your Child's Potential, produced a set of award winning children's phonics materials, written a quiz book for students and edited the book, "12 Habits of Highly Intelligent Students."

DR. LETICIA PENANO-HO

A clinical psychologist, neurotherapist and educator,   Dr. Leticia Penano-Ho has 38 years of professional practice at different levels:   private practice, school/university and   industry. Her odyssey shows her deep interest in people and her commitment to help people in becoming the best that they can be. 

She is the current Chair and President of the Philippine Association for the Gifted.  She has spearheaded programs for the identification and nurture of gifted children and adolescents especially from the disadvantaged sector. She has been actively advocating for the Bill which seeks the establishment of the Philippine Center for the Gifted.  She was a US International Visitor Fellow to Harvard where she met with the research team of Dr. Howard Gardner (Multiple Intelligences).   Dr. Penano-Ho was also a Templeton International Fellow for Gifted Education.  She represented the Philippines in the renowned international conference and training on Gifted Education in May, 2008.

She   finished a two term (6 years) stint as Dean of the College of Education of the University of the Philippines. She was the Director of the ASEAN Training Center for Preventive Drug Education (ATCPDE).  Before this, she was Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs for the U.P. Diliman campus.

Dr. Penano-Ho is the psychologist member of the Philippine Advisory Board for ADHD which is a multidisciplinary board representing pediatric neurology, developmental pediatrics, psychiatry and psychology.  

She pioneered on   neurofeedback therapy, an intervention which has been used in the United States for over 30 years.  Her clinic Neurotherapy Center, Philippines is the only clinic that offers this intervention mode to children, adolescents and adults with Attention Deficit Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and other disabilities as well as depression, seizure disorders, substance abuse among others.

Dr. Penano-Ho has been a consultant of international agencies like the WHO, UNESCO, ILO, ADB and WORLDBANK and local agencies like the DEPED, CHED, DOLE, Civil Service Commission and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency or various projects on education and psychology.   Her latest consultancy was with World Bank as Consultant on Gender and Ethnicity in Lao PDR.  She is also helping Indonesian schools in working with children with special needs both the gifted and the learning disabled

MS. LILIA VENGCO

is presently a consultant on Basic Education Curriculum (BEC) for De La Salle Philippines. She has conducted numerous training programs for educators all over the country.

From 1997 to 2003, Ms. Vengco was the high school principal of La Salle Greenhills.  She then became the founding principal of De La Salle Canlubang, where she served until 2006.

She has supervised teachers and assessed curricula from preschool to high school and has conducted seminar-workshops for teachers and administrators of La Salle schools and other CEAP schools in the areas of: Supervision and Administration, Features of the RBEC, Teaching Strategies for Science teachers, Test Construction and Evaluation, Teaching as an Art and Skill, Principles of Classroom Management, School Leadership and Supervision, Leadership Styles and Leadership Skills, Developing  Leadership Skills, Leadership through Learning: Empowering Teachers, Responsible Classroom Management, Characteristics of a Lasallian Educator, Steps in Building A Lasallian Community. She has likewise developed modules on Leadership and Administration for school leaders and coordinators.

Ms. Vengco is one of the authors of the textbook series You and the Natural World Discovering Earth and the Solar System, and Science for Active Learning. She published article the article "Time to Innovate" in the Lasallian Educational Forum."

She is very passionate about improving the quality of instructional supervision in the country.  She is a PAASCU Accreditor and Staff Chair and has served in several Lasallian associations for teachers and principals.