Jeneane Paxson
Jeneane has seen three of Singapore’s strongest schools from the inside. What she works on now is the part parents rarely see: teaching a twelve-year-old to notice how their own thinking is going, and to correct course before an adult steps in. As a cognitive coach she teaches by asking, and children leave her class […]
Julio Bolivar
Julio teaches middle schoolers the way he teaches his AP research students: find the source, weigh it, build the argument, defend it out loud. Ten years in a large American public high school taught him how to pitch that work at twelve without thinning it. The three words he took from the school where he […]
Ryan Rego
Ryan teaches science the way scientists work: a question first, then a way to test it. He is also the teacher other teachers come to for technology, and he is exacting about it. A simulation earns a place in his lesson by showing a child something the printed page keeps hidden. He builds the quick […]
Thomas Coon
Thomas has taught science to students who arrive with a dozen different first languages and a dozen different levels of English, which is exactly what an RDAS classroom looks like. He keeps the science demanding while making the language reachable, so a child still finding their English stays inside the thinking. After school he runs […]
Jane Chen
Middle school is where many children decide privately whether Chinese is their own language or a subject being done to them. Jane’s answer is to give them something to say: a debate, an essay with their name on it, a competition entry. She coaches students into Chinese speech and writing competitions, and once a child […]
Lingesh Gunasekaran
Lingesh has coached soccer players from grassroots to elite, and the child he plans for first is the one who dreads PE. His subject is physical literacy: using the body well, and keeping the will to use it, which outlives any team a child makes or misses. He builds a lesson so that the least […]
Lynn Friesen
Lynn is the bridge for children whose first language isn’t English, and she brings them into the classroom without fear. Her psychology training means she watches a child’s confidence through the transition to English as closely as she watches their grammar. That answers the question every parent is already asking: will my child fall behind, […]
Rebecca Crasto
Rebecca works from cognitive science, and under her, inquiry-based learning is something a child does every single day, in every lesson. Children learn to ask sharper questions and to check their own thinking, and that skill outlasts any test. It is what a child stands on when the next hard thing arrives.
Shamil Jumali
Shamil reads a room. In the busy gaps of a lead teacher’s day, he catches the small shifts in a child’s mood and responds warmly, right at the moment it matters. This is social-emotional learning as a daily habit. For a child who is new, or quiet by nature, Shamil is the steady presence in […]
Patrick Kelly
Patrick brings together an unusual mix: a head for business, a creative streak in marketing, and leadership across very different industries. Alongside building products and teams, he has spent the past ten years as Head Coach of the Centaurs rugby club, and that says a lot about how much he cares about mentoring people and […]