I built MyIBHub because the gap between what official IB documentation says and what happens in a classroom on a Tuesday morning is real — and I spent years closing that gap for myself before deciding to write it down for other educators too.

A Personal Introduction

I've spent my career at the intersection of two things that don't always get put in the same sentence: rigorous, structured thinking and the very human, very unpredictable work of teaching. My academic background is in computational engineering — a field built on precision, systems, and problem decomposition. My professional life has been built in IB classrooms, where none of that precision is optional, but all of it has to bend around real students, real timetables, and real constraints.

What has stayed constant across both is curiosity — the habit of asking why something works the way it does, and how to explain it clearly to someone who needs to use it today, not eventually. That question is behind almost everything I've built as an educator: the way I plan units, the way I coach colleagues through the MYP Unit Planner, the way I approach the DP Core, and eventually, the way I built MyIBHub.

I don't think of myself as someone who has "arrived" at expertise. I think of myself as someone who is still learning how to teach well, still refining how I explain things, and still testing whether what I believe about good curriculum design actually holds up in front of students. MyIBHub is, in a real sense, a public version of the notes I've kept for myself along the way.

Why I Created MyIBHub

Every IB educator I've worked with — new or experienced — runs into the same wall eventually: the official guidance is thorough, but thoroughness and clarity are not the same thing. A subject guide can tell you exactly what a criterion requires without ever showing you what that criterion looks like when a real 14-year-old submits real work. A workshop can give you a brilliant explanation of concept-based learning that lives entirely in the room it was delivered in, unless someone writes it down afterward.

I noticed this fragmentation constantly: knowledge split across subject guides, workshop slide decks, and informal conversations with colleagues, with no single place to bring it together; genuinely excellent advice circulating in educator communities sitting alongside advice that was outdated or oversimplified, with no easy way for a new teacher to tell the difference; and a shortage of worked, subject-varied examples — the kind of concrete "here's what this actually looks like" that turns an abstract principle into something usable.

MyIBHub started as an attempt to solve this for myself — organizing my own understanding of MYP and DP frameworks into something clear enough to hand to a colleague. It became clear fairly quickly that the problem isn't specific to one school or context; it's structural, and it affects IB educators everywhere. So the platform grew from a personal reference into something built for that wider audience: an independent, practical companion to official IB documentation — not a replacement for it, and not another voice adding to the noise.

Educational Philosophy

Lifelong learning is the job, not a slogan. Curriculum frameworks change, research evolves, and what worked in one classroom may not transfer cleanly to another. I try to treat every unit as a hypothesis worth testing and revising.

Knowledge is more useful shared than held. Insight that stays in one teacher's head helps far fewer students than it could. Writing things down publicly, carefully, multiplies the value of the work already done.

Evidence-informed practice beats intuition alone. Experience matters, but it should be checked against research and against what actually happens with students.

Teachers should be empowered, not managed by paperwork. Planning tools exist to support good teaching, not to become the point of the exercise.

Technology, including AI, is a tool for educators — not a replacement for their judgment. I use AI in my own workflow, including in building MyIBHub, but I treat it the way I'd treat any other tool: useful for drafting, summarizing, and accelerating work, never a substitute for a human educator's review and final judgment.

Growth is continuous, not credentialed once and finished. Certifications matter, but they're checkpoints, not endpoints.

Professional Background

Current Role — Founder, MyIBHub.

IB Experience — IB Educator with direct classroom and coordination experience across the Middle Years Programme (MYP) and Diploma Programme (DP), focused on MYP Design, DP Core (including the DP Extended Essay), curriculum leadership, and educational technology integration.

Leadership Experience — DP Core Coordinator; Robotics & STEAM Lead.

Curriculum Development — Experience designing and coordinating MYP unit plans and DP Core processes, applying computational and systems thinking to curriculum structure and coordination workflows.

Educational Technology — Applied background in ICT, and in using data analysis, automation, and AI-assisted tools to support academic operations and curriculum coordination.

Education — MSc, Computational Engineering.

A more detailed professional history — including certifications, conference presentations, and institutional affiliations — is being finalized and will be added here as it becomes available.

Research Interests

  • International education and IB programme implementation
  • Curriculum design and concept-based learning
  • Assessment design and criterion-based evaluation
  • AI in education, with a focus on responsible, teacher-centered adoption
  • Educational leadership and curriculum coordination
  • Professional learning for educators
  • Learning analytics and data-informed academic operations
  • The future of teaching practice as educational technology evolves

Publications & Academic Contributions

All published guides and articles are available on MyIBHub's MYP Hub and Resources pages. Academic publications will be listed here as they become available — see ORCID and Google Scholar below for the most current record.

Professional Values

Integrity — Representing what I know accurately, and being clear about what I don't know or haven't verified.

Curiosity — Treating every established practice as worth questioning, and every new idea as worth testing.

Continuous Improvement — Revisiting and updating guidance as understanding and IB frameworks evolve.

Evidence-Based Practice — Grounding claims in official documentation, research, and tested classroom experience.

Openness — Sharing what I've learned, including uncertainty.

Collaboration — Building MyIBHub as a platform meant to grow with contributions from other educators.

Respect for Teachers — Recognizing educators are professionals under real time constraints.

Practical Innovation — Using new tools, including AI, where they genuinely improve teaching and curriculum work.

Vision for the Future

My long-term aim for MyIBHub is straightforward, if ambitious: to build the world's leading independent knowledge platform for IB educators — a resource experienced enough to be trusted, current enough to stay useful, and open enough to grow beyond a single author's perspective.

That means, over time, moving from a single-author project toward a collaborative one, with contributions from other IB educators across different school contexts and regions. It means continuing to explore how AI can responsibly support educators' planning and assessment work, always under human review. And it means keeping the platform anchored to its original purpose — helping teachers spend less time searching and more time teaching — even as it grows.

I don't think that vision requires MyIBHub to be large. It requires it to be reliable.

Connect