Our Faculty
Passionate learners Make Passionate Teachers
Our teachers are chosen not only for their outstanding academic accomplishments but also for their enthusiasm for teaching and learning, along with their willingness to put students’ ideas at center stage. Our teachers model genuine intellectual passion and humility coupled with a sincere respect for every learner.
In seminars, teachers don’t lecture. Rather, they create learning opportunities, help students ask better questions, and guide them to explore layered answers. Teachers and students value the learning process as much as the outcome, and view the classroom as a place to share and nurture individual and mutual passions.

Anne Butler-Swiech
Director 6-12 / English Teacher
English, Theater and Symposium Instructor
Fellow at the Areté Institute
AB Theater Studies 2004, Duke University
MFA Theater 2012, UCLA

Rose Chen
Mandarin Instructor
BA Japanese & International Business, Chinese Culture University, 1997
MS Retailing, Michigan State University, 2008

Sarah Pan
Visual Arts Instructor
BFA Game Art, Concept Emphasis, Laguna College of Art and Design, 2019

Charlie Watson
Photography Instructor
BA Graphic Design, Middlesex University, 1990