Serena Seibel

Founded and lead a not-for-profit social enterprise delivering professional development and adaptive, inclusive early-childhood pedagogy to teachers in low-resourced and emergency contexts; developed instructional design rooted in Finnish pedagogy and scaled programs since launch.

Planned and delivered child-initiated, discovery-based early years learning, designed classroom pedagogical supports, implemented adaptive teaching and special-needs support plans, and delivered staff training in pedagogy and phonics.

Coordinated accreditation and merged curriculum design, authored school policies (safeguarding, positive discipline), managed ESL and English teams, and led professional development, schedules, and learning-analytics reporting.

Designed and taught project-based, immersive English and subject lessons for grades 2–5 and grade 3 science/math, managed classes of ~25 pupils, and collaborated with Khmer and French teams to deliver multilingual, cross-disciplinary projects.

Taught ages 4–5 in a child-centered setting emphasizing outdoor, play-based and project learning; co-managed a new site including teacher recruitment, training, classroom setup, and workshop coordination.

Taught English across multiple secondary levels using immersive, learning-by-doing methods and project-based activities, and integrated human-rights and environmental themes into the curriculum.

Executed industrial and software sales and marketing for local and export markets, provided technical project support, and supervised project development and client-facing prospecting activities.

Managed partnerships, designed travel packages and budgets, coordinated promotional events and B2B/B2C marketing, and created tailor-made and promotional tourism offerings.

Oversaw team recruitment and operations, managed invoicing and customs procedures, supervised shipments and inventory, and negotiated international B2B partnership terms.

Managed a retail patisserie including a 20+ sales team, quality control, VIP customer service, retail events, budgets, logistics, and cross-department project collaboration.

Enrolled in Education in Emergencies (EiE) programme focused on humanitarian leadership and educational response in crisis contexts.

Completed a Master of Education with focus on educational practice, research, and policy from October 2021 to November 2023.

Completed the 'Children's Rights in Theory and Practice' MOOC focused on child protection principles and rights.

Undertook Positive Discipline certification training emphasizing respectful, non-punitive classroom management strategies.

Completed Jolly Phonics CPD certification to support systematic synthetic phonics instruction in early years.

Attended TSA autism awareness training focused on classroom adaptations and inclusive strategies.

Participated in the French National Education professional development program for teachers and school staff.

Completed an elementary teaching internship involving supervised classroom practice and lesson implementation.

Completed TEFL certification to teach English as a foreign language with practical classroom methodologies.