Experience
Teaching, entrepreneurship and executive leadership.
Teaching and School Leadership
Casablanca American School
IB Business Teacher · AI Initiatives Lead
2024 - Present
At Casablanca American School, I teach IB Business Management and serve as the AI Initiatives Lead, directing a Working Team of four teachers and two staff members in a school-wide initiative (see more about this work here). My work also extends to accreditation and governance committees. These responsibilities draw on the classroom teaching, curriculum design, adult learning, and organizational leadership experience I have built throughout my career. One student’s journey captures how I try to turn setbacks into learning; I share Driss’s story in my educational philosophy.
My teaching activities include
IB Business Management (Y1/Y2; HL and SL)
IB Economics (Y1/Y2; HL and SL)
Senior Advisory
Extended Essay Advisor (Business and Economics)
Business Management team lead
School leadership and committee work
AI Initiatives Lead. I direct a Working Team of four teachers and two staff members in our schoolwide AI work. I previously served as co-chair of the AI Education Committee, where I researched policies at peer schools and developed AI policy guidelines for CAS. Our work focuses on two areas: student and faculty AI literacy and ethical practice.
Student AI Literacy. At CAS, we aim to develop our students to be ethical practitioners who use AI as a catalyst for inquiry and an educational assistant, not to replace critical thinking and academic skills, but to enhance them.
Faculty AI Literacy. How our teachers use AI is just as critical to our success as how our students use it. One of our major initiatives is training teachers to use AI to strengthen collaboration, improve ideation, and increase efficiency and effectiveness as educators with an ever-growing list of responsibilities. I am excited to share an AI workshop designed for teachers and education leaders to build skills and capacity at the upcoming 2026 NESA Fall Leadership Conference.
NEASC Foundation Standards Committee. The CAS Foundation Standards Committee oversees CAS's accreditation renewal efforts. As a member of the committee, my primary task has been to work closely with various stakeholders in developing a Shared Understanding of High Quality Learning (SUHQL). We've taken a deep dive into the core foundational concepts that define our organization, what they mean to our community, and how they play out in practice. The work I have done with our SUHQL has been some of the most meaningful of my career, as it shapes everything we do at CAS.
CAS Board of Governors - Governance Committee. The CAS Governance Committee is comprised of two members from the Board of Governors, one representative from the parent community, two administrative staff officers, and me, who represents the faculty at CAS. Our task is to oversee the process of electing and appointing members to the CAS school board. Our board is undergoing significant turnover, with half of the members' seats open to election over the next two years, including the Board President. We have also navigated emergency appointee decisions, term renewals, and an ever-changing stakeholder population typical of an elite international institution. Taking on critical responsibilities that shape the future of the school has been both humbling and rewarding, as I have learned much about the nuanced complexities of effective leadership and policy.
Various. In addition to those listed above, I have also enjoyed significant contributions to the school culture, administrative systems, and teaching and learning practice as part of the following committees:
Academic Calendar and Scheduling committee
Upper School Syllabus and Student Handbook committee
CAS Academic and Achievement Awards committee
Best Practices in Education committee
Week Without Walls planning committee
With their permission, I share the following leaders open to being contacted as a professional reference on my behalf.
Mr. Omar Laafoura
President, CAS Board of Governors
Mr. John Burns
School Director, CAS
Mr. Rick Vanden Boom
Upper School Principal, CAS
CAS Phone: +212 522 79 39 39
Tomball Memorial High School
Tomball ISD, Texas USA
I spent five years teaching at TMHS, covering a wide range of subjects, including Physics, Personal Finance, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship.
I will always look back at my time at TMHS as one of the most influential periods of my career, as this is where I developed my RWC teaching model and launched the program that would have such a lasting impact on me personally and professionally.
TMHS really showed me how much difference supportive leadership can make for a teacher.
Payson Jr. High School
Nebo School District, Utah USA
I spent six years at PJHS teaching Earth Systems and Integrated Science courses. I also worked extensively with district coordinators to develop district-wide curriculum and shared assessments.
In addition to being my first teaching job, PJHS is also where I went to school and where my father taught for most of his career.
And of course, I must mention that our girls' freshman basketball team enjoyed its first winning season in years while I served on the coaching staff. Go Payson!
Stevens-Henager College
Orem, Utah Campus USA
I enjoyed a variety of roles at SHC, including Director of Community Outreach and High School Relations Coordinator. However, the role I am most proud of was as the GED program director and architect.
As the Director of GED Services, I was tasked with developing the curriculum, hiring, training, and managing our tutors and education specialists, and teaching adult learner courses. Our 3-week course was wildly successful and eventually adopted throughout the SHC family of schools.
Stukent, Inc.
Idaho Falls, ID USA
In my capacity as the VP of Learning at Stukent, one of the great opportunities of my career, I spent much of my energy and focus developing and conducting training workshops for educators across the U.S. who used Stukent's educational resources, particularly Mimic Personal Finance.
It was during my time at Stukent that my national recognition as an education innovator and industry leader really took shape, as I keynoted major conferences such as Jump$tart NEC and SXSW Education.
Education Sector
Free Market Educational Services
I founded and led FMES from 2016 to 2019 in response to growing demand for my teaching model, the Real-world Classroom (RWC), and its associated technology and curriculum. I started FMES in 2016 while teaching full-time at TMHS and officially adopted the RWC DBA shortly thereafter.
FMES was an amazing experience in so many ways. But most of all, it provided a mechanism of personal growth through challenge, failure, and unprecedented success. What started as a simple Excel spreadsheet used to manage students' in-class funds eventually grew into a robust web application, a 10-unit turnkey curriculum, a video library, in-person PD workshops, and thousands of school users across the country.
Relevant leadership experience
As CEO of RWC, in addition to the expected roles and duties, I collaborated extensively with leaders from schools, districts, state boards of education, politicians, and multiple education cooperatives. We worked closely with these leaders to design policies, raise funds for schools, and offer professional development options tailored to a wide range of stakeholders. Each state has different standards and requirements for personal finance education, so we adapted our resources to meet the needs of each learning environment.
The most rewarding aspect of my job was working one-on-one with teachers, analyzing and evaluating their program needs, and developing solutions that would surpass expectations. I developed close relationships with faculty and administration, many of which I still maintain. I may have provided the resources and development, but I think I gained the most from the relationships.
Stukent, Inc.
In 2019, a larger EdTech firm, Stukent, acquired RWC; Stukent specialized in digital courseware for high schools, colleges, and universities worldwide and focused on business-related subjects. As part of the acquisition, I served for three years as the Vice President of Learning.
Relevant leadership experience
My role was to serve as an internal consultant to the organization, specifically on client-facing products. I worked closely with the marketing department to develop strategies and messaging that improved our communication with educators. I trained sales and support staff in educational techniques to better assist our clients— essentially turning our staff into teachers themselves. I also worked extensively with our product and curriculum development teams to ensure our courseware followed research-based best practices and aligned with appropriate standards.
My time at Stukent is where the skills I began to develop with the RWC and eventually fine-tuned through my doctoral program really began to flourish. The scope of responsibilities and activities I engaged in required me to be flexible, expand my knowledge base, and stretch my skill set as an educational leader.