PastI am a co-creator of an ESL school "kawabunga" located in Kharkiv, Ukraine. I dedicated 10 years fulfulling to building it up, putting together lesson to lesson, idea to idea.
As of Febuary 2022 we were teaching around 200 students aged 1 to 11 offering 8 different learning programs. Kawabunga was and still is all about finding the most creative approaches so that learning a second language comes naturally. My favourite students were toddlers! I taught them English using American Sign Language. In May 2022 I had to part with my team. But the passion to enriching lifes of people through meaningful teaching stays with me. |
PresentI arrived to the US in April 2022 saving myself and my kids from the war.
I took this life changing curve as a chance to study for Master's degree, leaving my successful Ukrainian career behind. Currently I am a loving mother of two daugthers living a “blended life”: American offline and Ukrainian online. |
FutureMy hope is that with MIST program I will incorporate my 13 years of hands-on teaching experience into a new profession of an instructional designer.
I want to bring the knowledge back to Ukraine to help the professionals to modernise education either in K-12 structure or on corporate levels. |