Secondary Principal
Bengt Rosberg
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Countries Worked In: Malaysia, Qatar, Russia, Sweden
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Educational Leadership
Favorite Quote: “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” - Wittgenstein
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Gretchen Yurovsky
Gretchen YurovskyEnglish Language and LIteratureCountries Worked In: South Korea, China and Vietnam
Highest Degree: Bachelor
Field of Study: English Literature and History
Favorite Quote: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”, - Aristotle -
Alison Walthew
Alison WalthewMYP/DP English teacherCountries worked in: Bahrain, China, South Africa, Taiwan
Highest Degree: BA Honours
Field of Study: Applied Linguistics
Favourite Quote: “The harder I work, the luckier I get “, - Samuel Goldwyn -
Peggy Perkins
Peggy PerkinsMYP/DP Mathematics TeacherCountries Worked In: Jamaica, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, USA
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Educational Leadership
Favorite Quote: “The top of the mountain is the bottom of the next, so keep climbing.” - André De Shields -
Olga Derendiaeva
Olga DerendiaevaSecondary Performing Arts - Music TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia, Turkey
Highest Degree: Bachelor of Choral Conducting
Field of Study: Choral Conducting; Music Education
Favorite Quote: “Everything we do is music.” John Cage -
Bruce Zeemel
Bruce ZeemelDP Economics, ToK, and MYP Individuals and Societies. EE CoordinatorCountries Worked In: Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Qatar, Russia, Thailand
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Educational Leadership
Favorite Quote: “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
Yulia Fattakhova
Yulia Fattakhovalab assistantCountries Worked In: France, Russia, United States
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Physics
Favorite Quote: "The path to excellence lies through personal development”.
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Alina Latypova
Alina LatypovaMYP Visual Arts TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Arts Favorite Quote: “All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso -
Kamila Mirasova
Kamila MirasovaEnglish as an Additional Language Coordinator, Secondary EAL TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: PhD
Field of Study: Language Acquisition, World Literature
Favorite Quote: “To teach is to be full of hope.” - Larry Cuban -
Elza Andrianova
Elza AndrianovaMYP Russian Language and Literature, and Russian Language Acquisition TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Teaching Russian and English
Favorite Quote: “You need to open your heart, then you can sing better.” - John Lennon
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Kendal Pyke
Kendal PykeMYP Language and Literature, and Individuals and Societies TeacherCountries Worked In: Japan, Morocco, Russia, United States of America
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Linguistics and International Trade
Favorite Quote: “A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” - Sonia Sotomayor
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Benjamin Hearn
Benjamin HearnMYP Science and DP Chemistry TeacherCountries Worked In: Netherlands, Russia, United Kingdom
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Environmental Science
Favorite Quote: “Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” - John Steinbeck
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Frank Cafarella
Frank CafarellaMYP Individuals and Societies, and PD History TeacherCountries Worked In: Costa Rica, Russia, Taiwan, United States of America, Vietnam
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Social Studies Education
Favorite Quote: “Every man has two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.” - Confucius
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Simon Frumkin
Simon FrumkinMYP Science and DP Physics TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia, United States of America
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Masters of Arts in Teaching
Favorite Quote: “Without love in a dream it will never come true.” - Robert Hunter
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Iker Fraile
Iker FraileMYP Mathematics, Science and Design TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia, Spain, Switzerland
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Environmental Sciences
Favorite Quote: “You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” - Galileo Galilei
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Vicki Tiffany
Vicki TiffanyCAS Coordinator, MYP Individuals and Societies, and DP TOK TeacherCountries Worked In: Burma, Qatar, Russia, United States of America
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: History / Secondary Education
Favorite Quote: “The past can hurt...You can either run from it or learn from it.” - Rafiki
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Gulnaz Akhsanova
Gulnaz AkhsanovaSecondary EAL TeacherCountries Worked In: Germany, Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Linguistics and Web Technologies
Favorite Quote: “Language is the dress of thought.” - Samuel Johnson -
Steven Fogarty
Steven FogartyPersonal Project Coordinator, MYP and DP Mathematics, and DP Business Management TeacherCountries Worked In: Bahrain, China, Egypt, Germany, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Mathematics
Favorite Quote: “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” - William Arthur Ward
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Richard Jaberzadeh
Richard JaberzadehMYP Design and DP Computer Science TeacherCountries Worked In: Germany, Indonesia, Russia, United Kingdom
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Electronics
Favorite Quote: “Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every Teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam..... To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” - Carl Sagan
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Leanne Edwards
Leanne EdwardsHead of LibrariesCountries Worked In: Canada, Dominican Republic, Kuwait, Mongolia, Russia, United Kingdom
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Education
Favorite Quote: “The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity. And that means, at its simplest, finding books that they enjoy, giving them access to those books, and letting them read them.” - Neil Gaiman
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Jennifer Berger
Jennifer BergerMYP Science TeacherCountries Worked In: China, Russia, United States of America
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Science Education
Favorite Quote: “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
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Irina Sapaeva
Irina SapaevaMath teacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Maths
Favorite Quote: “The mathematical truth, whether in Paris or in Toulouse, is one and the same.” - Blaise Pascal
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Yulia Shishkina
Yulia ShishkinaMYP Russian Language and Literature TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Russian
Favorite Quote: “It is not the quantity of knowledge that matters, but their quality. You can know a lot, without knowing the most necessary.”- Leo Tolstoy -
Ravil Yusupov
Ravil YusupovSTEAM Lab TechnicianCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Architecture and building construction
Favorite Quote: “Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are." - Jim Henson -
Rezeda Sagirova
Rezeda SagirovaMYP Language and Literature, and DP Russian Literature TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: International Education
Favorite Quote: “To attract something into your life, imagine that it already exists there.” - Richard Bach