Amanda Kane

Educator

My name is Amanda. I’m a passionate, energetic and highly qualified classroom teacher, literacy coach and reading specialist. I first expressed my calling for teaching in my early childhood as I role played ‘school’.

I feel grateful that I followed my aspirations and get to live out my purpose of guiding and coaching children to realise their potential. I have a Bachelor of Education and Master of Literacy with 25 years working in a range of public, private and independent schools in Sydney, Atlanta, Georgia and Far North Queensland. My time working in Wujal Wujal an Indigenous community just south of Cooktown, provided a profound start to my teaching career and one which has been the seed for my philosophy, values and beliefs around educating children. I believe in nurturing and building on a child’s strengths and honoring and valuing their own ways of thinking and learning.

Taking a holistic approach to learning also ensures relationship quality is at the center of all I do. I value building a positive working relationship with my students and take the time to get to know them and ensure they have opportunities to get to know me too! I believe it takes a village to educate our children and love to work collaboratively to ensure the best outcomes are met for our kids. My time on Cape York also fuelled a passion I have around developing a deeper understanding and respect for our First Nations Australians. I work to embed Indigenous perspectives into my lessons and honour the story and history of our First Nations people. For all students, this ensures a more accurate and richer understanding of Australia’s history and culture and a meaningful understanding of situations we face today. As an Indigenous ally my aim is to continue to learn, reflect, listen and actively work together towards reconciliation.

As well as teaching in the classroom, I spent many years running real food workshops and teaching people how to make fermented foods like kombucha, milk kefir and fermented veggies. You will often find me in the kitchen testing out a new recipe or other days at the beach, doing yoga or pilates or out exploring nature with my son.

Annali DeMamiel

Educator

Lindsay Taylor

Educator

My name is Lindsay, it is my pleasure to be working with the Lions team and the Lions children, throughout Australia.

I have been gifted with an enthusiasm for the life around me and a thirst to understand what is behind the visible, and how things work. So, I am blessed to ignite this curiosity in my students, your children, and to enable them to have fun as they apply their learning through project-based tasks.

I have spent a significant amount of my working career in industry, in laboratories, and chemical manufacturing organisations. I gained my Honours degree in Chemistry, well, let’s say a long time ago!

Since that time, I have built successful businesses in the health care industry, managed health, safety and environmental departments, then began a teaching career in Science, my passion, I qualified here in Australia, after moving from England in 2007 and have spent the last nine years teaching Science from years 7 to 11 in both the public and private schooling systems.

It is my pleasure to work with the children and open up the world around them. To
provide a fun learning environment, whether that is building aquaponic systems or
applying their learning to their interests. I desire to make the learning accessible to all students, of all abilities, and encourage sharing of ideas in a relaxed environment.

I hope you will come and join us, and experience the freedom of learning in your own backyard.

Mark Sorrell

Educator

Zane Ryder

Co Founder, Parent

Andre Quin

Director, Co Founder, Parent

My name is Andre Quin; I am the director and co-founder of Lions Education, where our goal is to create a new approach to education that adequately prepares students for a rapidly changing and evolving future. Along with my Lions Education role, I am the CEO of a software company and non-executive director in a high rise building maintenance company.

In my free time, I passionately teach the art of Wing Chun Kung Fu! Having grown up in Switzerland, I speak multiple languages fluently; I have also studied Latin for five years and am familiar with the standard subjects taught at school.

I am a firm believer in nurturing curiosity, questioning everything and encouraging critical thinking, and cultivating tolerance, compassion, empathy with a love for diversity. I am passionate about this cause and believe that education is the most powerful tool available to positively shape society and our loved ones’ future. Maintaining respect for one another, protecting human rights, and the right to choose are not negotiable for me.

I am incredibly passionate and excited about this project and look forward to seeing Lions Education become the biggest learning hub in Australia.

With a vision to have more students than any other school in Australia, we aim to have every one of our students capable of thinking freely. We want them to make decisions for themselves, not based on what they are told. Instead, we empower our students to make educated decisions based on facts that they can research themselves. Our goal is to ensure our children are sophisticated, street smart, capable of reading between the lines and taught skills to help navigate the future.