Leanne Shang
Orton-Gillingham is the gold-standard approach to structured literacy: reading taught through systematic phonics, one sound at a time. Leanne’s specialty is the first and hardest hurdle, the moment a child goes from guessing at words to actually reading them. For a slower starter, everything turns on that moment. Clear it early, and the confidence carries […]
Tony Wang
Tony has spent his career at the forefront of international education and cross-border business development. As Founder and President of Three W International, he has built partnerships with hundreds of private schools and helped thousands of students get into top schools worldwide, and two years in a row the company was named one of the […]
Allison Atherton
Grades 4 and 5 are where a child starts carrying more of the load alone: longer assignments, harder math, more decisions of their own. Allison has taught this exact age for ten years, and she runs a classroom where the standard is high and the help arrives before a child has to ask for it. […]
Stephanie Ringler
As RDAS’s Math Coordinator and Lead Teacher, Stephanie teaches math and built the framework the whole school teaches it by. She builds sharp number sense and the patience to think a problem all the way through, so a child stops fearing math and starts using it to read the world. That way of reasoning takes […]
Aparna Patil
Art is the first language a child speaks to understand the world. At an age when words fall short, Aparna reads the feeling on the page and gives a child the courage to say exactly what’s inside. She knows Chinese brush painting and Western drawing alike, and moves children freely between them until they find […]
Dr. Erica Gale Smeltzer
Beyond her role as Head of School, Erica remains closely involved in the classroom. With deep experience founding and leading new international campuses, she played a key role in opening the first BASIS international school in China. Her years there show she can build a strong academic program from day one while giving equal weight […]
Wendy Qiu
Wendy builds the Chinese curriculum level by level, so a native speaker stays stretched in the same room where a beginner feels safe to try. A child two years ahead and a child just starting both get a lesson pitched exactly to them. Your child is met where they are, whether Chinese is home to […]
Michelle Lim
Michelle teaches music the way children actually learn it. She lets them invent their own marks for sound before they ever meet a musical staff, and improvise freely, so music arrives first as something they make, then something they can name. Her lessons pull different grades, and even teachers, into a single project, held together […]
Gary Bradshaw
Gary brings hands-on experience building bilingual, inquiry-driven elementary programs from the ground up, exactly what RDAS needs as we establish our elementary school. His leadership gives our youngest learners a strong start to their education.
Zul Fadlie
Before teaching, Zul coached youth triathletes through swimming, cycling, and running, three sports where a child’s only opponent is the time they posted last month. He brought that yardstick into the classroom: a child in his class is measured against the child they were in September, and they can watch the gap close. Water competence […]