Alexander Gulin
Director, Private School "Snegiri"
In 2020, Alexander Gulin became the head of the "Snegiri" private school, where he gathered a team of young, creative and professional teachers from Russia, Germany and England. "Snegiri" teachers implement the format of a "new-generation" school — a school that becomes a point of attraction for children, where there is a place for games, sports, friendship, research and creative projects. A teacher at "Snegiri" is a mentor, a tutor who plays the role of a navigator in the educational process. The modern school space, designed by Portuguese architects, is not only comfortable for learning but also motivates students to be active and creative.
Alexander Gulin began his career in 2008 as a developer of interactive scripts for multimedia discs for history and social studies textbooks at the "Prosveshchenie" publishing house. Then, from 2009 to 2016 he worked as a history teacher at the Lyceum №1828 "Saburovo", where he created an interactive school museum, and also actively implemented blended learning technologies and projects of the "School of New Technologies". In 2016, he was invited to the Museum of Moscow Education, where he developed and implemented an exposition on modern pedagogical technologies, and conducted courses for heads of school museums.
Prior to joining the private school "Snegiri", Alexander headed State School №149 named after U.N. Zykov, a Hero of the Soviet Union. From 2016 to 2019, he was deputy director of the Gymnasium (school) №1576, where he actively introduced innovative projects and PAK-education "Moscow Electronic School", implemented blended learning approaches, organised a system for distance learning in basic subjects based on LMS Moodle, managed the Gymnasium building (HSE Lyceum). The high school has successfully launched personalised learning curricula.
In addition, Alexander takes an active part in the development of new educational projects. In 2014–2018 he was a member of the programme committee at the EdCrunch conference, in 2017 he was a member of the programme committee at the "City of Education" forum. Contests "i-Teacher" and "TOP-school" were launched with the participation of Alexander.
In 2016, with the support from Rybakov Foundation, he developed a distance learning history course for schoolchildren, and also organised the examination of content in basic academic subjects.
In 2008, Alexander graduated from the Moscow State Regional University, where he studied at the Department of Political Science and Law, and in 2011 he completed his postgraduate studies there. In 2017, he received an expert-level certification in the "Unified State Exam in Social Science".
In 2021, he graduated with a Masters Degree from the Institute of Education at the Higher School of Economics University, in the area of "Management and Entrepreneurship in Education", thesis topic: "Management of educational systems based on Big Data technologies." Since 2021, he has been studying at a joint programme of the Moscow School of Higher Education and Manchester University in the area of Education Evaluation and Assessment.
- School education
At this session we will enter the world of state-of-the-art school management tools. We will look at how digitalization is affecting the management...
