Sarah O Weiler

Founder

The founder and primary contributor to Education for Contemporary Times is Sarah O. Weiler, long-time educator with a M.A. in Global Education from the University of Illinois and a M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Education at the prestigious Institute of Education at the University of London in the UK. In addition to these degrees, she has been an integral part of two university research groups at the Pontific Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC) in Brazil, publishing articles related to multicultural education and social action education. 

Sarah O. Weiler has been a school leader in the USA and Brazil.  Throughout her career she has taught preschool, elementary school, middle school and high school, as well as presented lectures at universities and international conferences. Her main passion is teacher professional development, with the aim to revolutionize education and break the dominant teaching-and-learning paradigm that currently prevails. 

Through her vast experience, she has worked in elite, private schools, as well as public institutions and NGOs that rely heavily on grant funding and donations. She has studied and worked on three continents, with students of all different socio-cultural backgrounds. As such, Sarah O. Weiler has deep understanding of the issues that diversity brings to the classroom and the challenges faced in different educational settings.