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Andy Dailey
Director
Mr. Dailey has 30 years of experience in international education, having served in positions in Croatia, Egypt, Jordan, Albania, and the United States. He graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Education and History, and has a Master’s Degree from Michigan State University in Curriculum Design and Teaching. His experience in curriculum has been wide-ranging and includes experience in US, British, and IB systems.
He served as a teacher in:
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Havasupai Indian School in Arizona, USA from 1993-1995
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American International School of Zagreb, Croatia from 1995-1998
He served as an IB teacher, Head of Department, and/or IB Diploma CAS Coordinator in:
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American International School in Egypt from 1998-2009
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International Academy Amman from 2009-2010
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New Cairo British International School in Egypt from 2010-2013
In the later two schools, Mr. Dailey was part of a team that implemented IB programmes.
Mr. Dailey was the Founding Director of Albanian College, a two-campus system of IB Continuum Schools (all three major IB programmes) in Durres and Tirana, Albania from 2014-2018. In 2019, Mr. Dailey became the Founding Director of Uptown International School in Cairo, an IB World School.
Mr. Dailey has worked for the IB as a Workshop Leader, assistant examiner, and curriculum developer. Between 2006 and 2018, he led 60 workshops in IB Diploma History and CAS. He has most recently served on the IB CAS Curriculum Review Committee and previously served on the IB Diploma History Curriculum Review Committee.
Working with Hodder Education, Mr. Dailey developed a text-book series to support the teaching of IB Diploma History. As Series Editor of Access to History for the IB since 2012, Mr. Dailey has authored or co-authored three titles and edited multiple others. In 2019 he co-authored an IB MYP textbook to support MYP Individuals and Societies.
Originally from Tennessee, USA, Mr. Dailey’s permanent residence has been in Egypt since 1998. His interests include archaeology and he has participated in excavations in Egypt, Jordan, Croatia, and Palestine. He has contributed articles to the British Journal of Oriental Textile Studies regarding carpets and kilims from the Balkans region of Europe and to other journals regarding service learning.
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Christian Gülzow
Head of Primary
Mr. Gülzow has 25 years' experience in teaching and leading schools in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
He has been involved with IB programmes for many years, including PYP, MYP, and DP.
He recently served as Founding Director of Albanian College Tirana II in Albania, an IB PYP and IB MYP school. He has also served as Director of Uungozi Center in Kenya, Acting and Assistant Principal at the International School of Hamburg, Germany, and Senior Master at the International School of Bangalore in India. He has also worked for the United World College of the Atlantic in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, Gresham’s School in the UK, and the Central Bureau for Education Systems Abroad in Palestine and Kenya. He is considered an expert in German language by the IB and serves as an official IB Examiner for German language.
Mr. Gülzow has a B.A. from the University of Rostock – Institute for Pedagogy and a Masters in Education Management from the University of Kaiserslautern, both in Germany.
Farah Seif
Head of Secondary
Farah Seif, is a founding member of Evolution International School and is currently the Head of Secondary School. Farah received her Masters degree of Educational Leadership from the University of Dundee with distinction and her PGCEi from Nottingham University. She also holds a masters in Business Administration from the Arab Academy for Science and Technology (AAST) in Egypt. An educator for 12 years and Head of Secondary and DP coordinator for the last 5 years. Initially, Farah started out as a University teaching assistant and then moved on to become a middle school mathematics teacher and progressed in her career to Head of Department for Key Stage 3, followed by Curriculum Leader.
Farah has a passion for education especially with young adults. She is also a strong advocate for the IBDP and school authorization with the International Baccalaureate Organization. She has led the school through IBDP candidacy and authorization since the early stages of Evolution’s inception. Farah is a true believer in young adults’ leadership and character building and has worked through licensing the school as an International Award Centre for delivering the Duke of Edinburgh International Award. She acted as the award coordinator for two years and is now an award leader and assessor. Farah is married with two children.