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Edward Shanahan

Malcolm McKenzie

Mary Jew

Maureen McCoy

Diana Martelly

Jia Lili

Board President

Head of School

Head of Primary School

Head Of Middle School

Head of High School

Dean of Curriculum

Edward Shanahan has been in
secondary and post-secondary
education in New England for
over 40 years. From 1972 to 1981,
he was Dean of Students and
member of the faculty at Wesleyan
University; then he became Dean
of College and member of faculty
at Dartmouth College, from 1981
to 1991, and in the last 20 years
till 2011, Dr. Shanahan was
Headmaster of Choate Rosemary
Hall. He has also served as Chair
of the Commission on Institutions
of Higher Education (CIHE),
and later as President of the New
England Association of Schools
and Colleges (NEASC). He is the
Founding President of Keystone
Academy, and was until recently
the Executive Director of the
Eight Schools Association (ESA),
a consortium of distinguished
New England boarding schools,
as well as a Life Trustee of Choate
Rosemary Hall. And for the
last decade, Dr. Shanahan has
been presiding over the Board of
Directors of the Icahn Foundation
for Greater Opportunity.

Malcolm McKenzie grew up
in South Africa, and studied at
the Universities of Cape Town,
Oxford and Lancaster. He is
a Rhodes Scholar, and has
degrees in Literature, Philosophy
and Applied Linguistics. He
was also the first Bicentennial
Fellow at Deerfield Academy in
Massachusetts. Mr. McKenzie
started his academic career as a
university lecturer, but moved
into school teaching, and school
leading, nearly 30 years ago.
He has been Principal of three
schools, Maru-a-Pula School in
Botswana, The United World
College of the Atlantic in Wales,
and The Hotchkiss School in
Connecticut, U.S. Mr. McKenzie
has also served on the Board of the
Round Square Association, which
numbers approximately 150 schools
worldwide. He was a co-founder
of the Global Connections
Foundation in 1997, and is now
Director of this confederation
of schools. Although he is a
hands-on school leader, who loves
spending time with students, Mr.
McKenzie still writes extensively
on education.

Mary Jew has over 25 years of
experience in education in the
California public school system in
grades K-12. In addition to working
for the public school districts
and county offices of education,
she has served as a lecturer for
San Francisco State University’s
Department of Education. Ms. Jew
is an established and distinguished
expert in the United States in
bilingual immersion education,
and has developed and managed
numerous immersion programs in
English and one of the following
languages: Cantonese, Spanish,
Japanese, Korean, and Putonghua.
She graduated from the University
of San Francisco and the University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Ms. Jew is a past president of the
National Association for Bilingual
Education (NABE) and the
California Association for Asian
Pacific Educators (CAAPE); she
has also served on the Executive
Board of the California Association
for Bilingual Education (CABE)
and the National Association
for Asian Pacific Educators; and
was formerly appointed by the
Speaker of the House and served
for four years as a Commissioner
on the California State Curriculum
and Supplemental Materials
Commission. Ms. Jew comes
to Keystone Academy from the
Independent Schools Foundation
Academy in Hong Kong. 

With over three decades of
experience in teaching and
education administration,
Maureen McCoy is Keystone’s
Head of Middle School.
Dr. McCoy is no novice to China,
having worked as Curriculum
Coordinator and then Secondary
Principal at the Dalian American
International School from 2011
through 2015. Her more than
20 years teaching high school
and middle level were in Hong
Kong and the Pacific Northwest
of the U.S. She has a B.A.
degree in History and a Master
of Arts in Teaching from Reed
College in Oregon, and recently
earned a Doctorate through
Nova Southeastern University
with a dissertation on ‘Teachers’
Experiences with English
Language Learners’ Difficulty
with Mastering Academic
Literacy’. Dr. McCoy has IB MYP
experience and is an important
player in Keystone’s work with
building secondary students’
bilingual academic expertise.

Diana Martelly is a passionate
educator with more than 30 years
of experience. Dr. Marte lly
has spent the last 16 years in
international schools in Venezuela,
Thailand, India, Nigeria, and
most recently in the Dominican
Republic. During 11 of those
years, she worked in schools with
the International Baccalaureate
(IB) programme, as a Math
teacher, examiner, and Creativity,
Activity, and Service Coordinator.
Dr. Martelly holds B.S. and M.S.
degrees in Math Education from
Florida International University,
and has also completed an Ed.D.
in Adult Education and Human
Resource Development at the same
university. Her commitment to
lifelong learning motivated her
to complete a Masters in Private
School Leadership at Teachers
College, Columbia University
in 2014-2015, where she was the
recipient of a Klingenstein Center
Leadership Grant.

Jia Lili has nearly two decades
of experience teaching IB
programmes, and is proficient
as an MYP and DP workshop
leader. Over the last nine years,
she headed the High School
Languages Department at Western
Academy of Beijing. Prior to
WAB, she was the whole school
language coordinator at Nanjing
International School. Ms. Jia is
also a Senior DP Group 2 examiner
and Personal Project Moderator,
and also a member of the DP
Authorization School Visiting
Team. She has five years teaching
and leadership experience at a local
government school, and was an
examiner for the China National
Curriculum High School Entrance
Exam. Ms. Jia holds a Masters
degree in Chinese Linguistics
and Applied Linguistics, and a
Postgraduate Diploma in Social
and Educational Study.

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