Leadership Team
Vivien Wang (Managing Director)
Vivien Wang is a former university lecturer and has extensive general management and financial management experience internationally. Upon her return to China, Vivien realized the need to offer children in China a positive start to life and academics, and the same early advantages she witnessed children receiving in the US. Vivien founded Etonkids with the goal of fulfilling this vision and has since built Etonkids into the premier provider of early education programs for both international and local parents in China.
Vivien earned her MBA at the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management; is the past president of the Kellogg School of Management Beijing Alumni Club and current serves as a senior consultant to the club; was chairperson of the first Kellogg Asia Branding Conference held in Beijing; and has been named among China’s Top 100 Leaders in Education by the governmental Chinese Society of Education (CSE).
Charmaine Soh (Academic Director & Director of EMTTA)
Charmaine Soh has extensive experience in early childhood education and school management and is one of Asia’s foremost experts on Montessori. She was past president of the Chinese Montessori International, founder of Greentree Montessori School in Singapore, and has shared her expertise through seminars, parenting programs and workshops throughout China, Southeast Asia, USA and Europe. Charmaine holds a Masters in Early Childhood Education from Pacific Oaks College USA, and teaching credentials from both AMI (Association Montessori International) and AMS (American Montessori Society). Charmaine is pleased to offer her expertise to Etonkids, while her daughter continues to operate Greentree Montessori in Singapore.
Marlene Barron (Standards Advisor)
An established expert in early childhood education, Marlene Barron, Ph.D., has over forty-five years experience as a consultant, educator and Head of School. She founded the Staten Island Montessori School in 1965; was Head of School of West Side Montessori School in New York City from 1979-2007, and co-director of their teacher education program until 2008. She earned a Ph.D. from New York University in early childhood education with a specialization in emergent literacy. She was a professor of education at NYU and project director of the NYU-Montessori Teacher Education until 2008.
As an international consultant, Dr. Barron has worked with education associations in Africa [Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa], Europe [Italy, Russia, Sweden], England, Asia [Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan], Brazil, Puerto Rice and the US Virgin Islands. Her work has ranged from professional development series focused on specific curriculum areas and assessment protocols to consultations on public policy, strategic planning, curriculum development, and school organizational issues. She currently serves at Chief Academic Officer to the Etonkids Educational Group and Director of its Montessori Teacher Education Program, EMTTA.
Until fall 2011, she served as a Commissioner for the Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education (MACTE). Her other volunteer positions include past president of the American Montessori Society’s (AMS) board, secretary/treasurer of the International Association of Montessori Educators (IAME), and past chair of the AMS Asia Taskforce. In New York City, her activities include serving as Treasurer of the Independent Schools Admissions Association of New York (ISAAGNY) and co-chair of the LPOS coalition of NYC Agency for Child Development programs. She earned the 1995 Outstanding Dissertation Award by the American Montessori Society and was honored with the 1992 Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Early Childhood Education from the Montessori Teachers Associations of Pennsylvania and with the 1988 Leader in Educational Excellence from St. Albans Montessori in New York.
Dr. Barron’s books for parents include the Ready, Set, Learn series. Her previous book, I Learn to Read and Write the Way I Learn to Talk: A Very First Book about Whole Language, is published in English and Spanish. In addition to numerous articles, she has written books for Montessori teachers, Sensorial Ideas [in English, Japanese], Recording and Reporting: A Comprehensive Recordkeeping System for Early Childhood [in English and Chinese], and Cosmic Education
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