Ady Sukkar Kayrouz is a lifelong career educator who is comprehensively committed to serving education, humanity and equity. Her work is rooted in designing innovative frameworks that cultivate transformative educational practices focused on deeper learning and student engagement. Ady designs and facilitates professional development that is centered in fostering organizational culture and grounding foundations for systemic change and sustainable impact. As a young immigrant, Ady was positioned to understand the importance of prioritizing the value of the human experience in learning which defined the core principle of her professional journey in education. Ady served as a secondary English teacher, curriculum designer, instructional coach, instructional team leader and professional development designer for almost two decades before joining the High Tech High organization in 2015. She describes her initial experience in PBL practice and design as “coming home to education and learning.”
Ady served as a Humanities Teacher at HTH Media Arts before serving in leadership as the Dean of Students where she focused on creating human centric programs and designing systems to cultivate a culture of equity, inclusion, multiculturalism and access to fully support student agency and PBL practices. Ady also held the position of Program Coordinator for the M.Ed. in Educational Leadership, M.Ed. in Teaching and Learning, and New School Creation programs at the HTH Graduate School of Education. Currently, as a Professional Learning Designer at the HTH GSE, Ady works with teachers, practitioners, specialists, administrators, leadership and policy makers around the world to provide high quality design and facilitation of standing HTH GSE PBL adult learning offerings and customized professional development experiences. Ady speaks English, French, Arabic and Spanish.