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Claire Psillides joined UWCSEA East as Head of Be The Change (MS) and Grade 6 English Humanities teacher in August 2011. She joined the East Middle Leadership Team in August 2011 as Middle School Head of Service and subsequently also led the Service team K-12 as the Chair of Service. Claire took on the role of Head of Environmental Sustainability in August 2019 and has overseen the environmental stewardship student-led initiatives at UWCSEA East. She held a diverse portfolio with specific responsibility for the leadership and management of the K–12 Environmental Sustainability and Stewardship curriculum and action projects, training and workshops in this field, external partner relations and liaison within College departments and school divisions. Claire is excited to join the American School in Japan as their first Director of Service Learning, a K-12 role which will enable her to transfer her skillset and experience and also learn so much more from the ASIJ community, partnerships and colleagues. Claire worked in a range of teaching and leadership positions in international schools in Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Cairo, Limassol and Doha prior to UWCSEA and ASIJ. The majority of her career has been spent designing, developing and leading interdisciplinary service learning, environmental stewardship and sustainable development programmes which enrich student learning and global citizenship and build their sense of agency, purpose and literacy through experiential partnerships. Claire is passionately interested in how student passion and interests can be leveraged for maximum positive change in the world around them, and how every young person can develop a changemaker toolkit and mindset to make a difference in the world. Claire firmly believes in the power of community engagement and the forming of sustainable, long term reciprocal partnerships and is deeply committed to developing these relationships on a variety of scales within the College, in Singapore and beyond, working together to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Claire holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geography and Sustainable Development from Reading University, a postgraduate certificate in Education from The University of Bath, a masters in Multidisciplinary Studies and Educational Leadership from Buffalo SUNY New York, as well as leadership accreditations in Transitionsing Schools to Net Zero (Cambridge University), Compassionate Systems (MIT), teaching the UNSDGs (Lehigh University), Systems Thinking and Permaculture Systems.