Our Board

Wellspring Learning Community owes its effective school governance to its advisory board, whose members bring valued expertise to our leadership. The board supports the school’s vision, advises on strategic and future decisions or policies, and helps set up the most convenient curriculum. It also plays a critical role in hiring and evaluating the head of school, approving annual budgets, ensuring financial stability, and monitoring the school’s adherence through a data-driven matrix of key performance indicators. Noting that regular visits by the chairperson and other board members help ensure that the school’s mission is constructively implemented.

Co-Founder and Chairperson of the Board

Mrs. Najwa Shammas

AUB graduate who has been passionately teaching for more than 25 years, combining both her parental and educator status for the advancement of our board.

Members of the Board

Kathleen A. Battah

Kitty is the newest appointed member to the Wellspring’s Advisory Board. With 20 years of Wellspring IB teaching (PYP, MYP) and HOS school leadership experience and 15 years working as an elementary homeroom teacher, LD teacher and middle school principal at a local Lebanon school, Kitty brings insight and actual experience to the Board. Kitty has a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary education and a Master’s in Educational Leadership from Notre Dame University Lebanon.

Kaya Karam

B.A. holder in post-colonialist English Lit, Japanese Lit and language from Auckland university. Chair of UWC (United World Colleges) in the Lebanese National Committee. Specialized writer in public art, architecture and landscape.

Pamela Alayli

B.A. and MBA holder in Chinese Studies with over 40 years of experience as a Chartered Management Accountant in Lebanon and the UK

Dr. Eva Kozma

M.A. holder in Educational Psychology from AUB and Ph.D. holder in Reading Attitudes in Primary Grades from USJ. Literacy expert and award-winning author of Arabic children’s books. Literacy Director on USAID-funded projects such as QITABI 3, RTI (Research Triangle International).

Rashida Nachef

B.S. and M.S. holder in Physics from the Lebanese University. Undertook various educational leadership roles in schools across Lebanon and UAE. Serves as CEO of the Arabian Education Development Company, Abu Dhabi.

Dr. Rouba Reaidi

Ph.D. holder of education from USJ and Ecosystems from Montpellier University. Expert in assessment and research design. Technical manager on USAID-funded QITABI 2 project in Lebanon.

Noor Shammas

A Wellspring Alumni Class of 2016, Noor graduated from Babson College USA in 2020 in Business with minors in Social Cultural Studies and Marketing. After graduating, she served as an AmeriCorps VISTA Fellow at LEO Inc, an anti-poverty non-profit that provides rent and utility assistance and COVID relief programs to low-income minorities in Lynn, Massachusetts. Throughout her undergraduate experience Noor has been an intern in a myriad of organizations of different sizes in three different continents, some of them are: an advertising agency (Leo Burnette, Beirut), an education technology startup (Aimee, Beirut), a healthcare company (Sphera, Barcelona), a sports empowerment agency (NARU Sports, Barcelona), and a social services organization (La Colaborativa, Boston, US). Throughout Noor’s academic and professional journeys, she has thrived at the intersection of business and social impact. These diverse experiences have empowered her ability to understand the nuances of social impact problem solving, most importantly the cycle of dependency. She hopes to continue her path in International Development and take on a more technical role as well as explore consulting for social enterprises.

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