Rob spent over six years as an ESL instructor and administrator in international and private schools in Taiwan and China including the Kaohsiung American School, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He has been involved in many projects of curriculum and staff development for ESL schools teaching students ages 4-64. A fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese and a well-traveled backpacker, Rob returned to the United States and continued in the ESL field as the School Administrator for the ASPECT International Language Schools’ San Francisco branch. Rob jumped at the chance to combine he and his father’s experiences in developing a program to empower educators and their school learning programs. Rob is a graduate of Bowdoin College with a BA in Asian Studies and continues to take courses and expand his education.