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).
Elizabeth Li (Vice President)
Elizabeth has 20 years of experience in general management. She was China Managing Director for NASDAQ listed silicon valley companies. She held managerial positions at Motorola. She also has many years of entrepreneur and investment banking experience.
She received her BA degree in English Language and Literature from Peking University and MBA from Kellogg School of Management,Northwestern University. She had her Montessori training in Canada and has been an active player in the field of education consultancy.
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)
“Both traditions want people to think. They want people who are problem solvers and can take apart a problem and put it back together again.”
“Montessori is a philosophy. The goal is to create a humanistic, respectful individual, to develop the full potential of a person in every area: physical, social, emotional, intellectual.”
An established expert in early childhood education, Marlene Barron, Ph.D., has spent more than forty years as an 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 the 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 and continues as project director of New York University Montessori Teacher Education.
As an international consultant, Dr. Barron has worked with departments of education and education associations in Africa, Europe, Japan, China, Brazil, Puerto Rice and the US Virgin Islands. Her work has ranged from professional development workshop series of specific curriculum areas and assessment protocols to consultations on public policy, strategic planning, and school organizational issues.
She currently serves as a Commissioner for the Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education (MACTE). Her many volunteer positions included past president of the AMS board, and secretary/treasurer of the International Association of Montessori Educators (IAME). In New York City, her volunteer activities included 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 for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Early Childhood Education 1992 by The Montessori Teachers Associations of Pennsylvania and as Leader in Educational Excellence 1988 by St. Albans Montessori in New York.
Dr. Barron’s books are part of the Ready, Set, Learn series written for parents. 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 both English and Spanish. In addition to numerous articles, she has written two books for Montessori teachers, Sensorial Ideas and Recording and Reporting: A Comprehensive Recordkeeping System for Early Childhood.
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