John Stadler

John Stadler is an educator and start-up investor with seven years experience in China. He has been a principal, an investor, teacher, and Board member in several schools in China, ranging from Eton Academy (a kindergarten) to the Institute of Digital Design (a post-graduate training program in Animation, Visual Effects, and Compositing). Stadler wrote the first comprehensive consumer’s guide to international education in China – the Stadler’s Guide to Education for Beijing and Shanghai. He has investigated over 150 schools as due diligence for investments in the education sector in China. Prior to China, Stadler founded the Parker Charter School (www.parker.org) in Devens, Massachusetts (USA), where he was also a teacher. The school has grown in size and reputation; it is now one of the preeminent Essential schools (www.essentialschools.org) in the US; it has a long waiting list and students coming from nearly 40 districts in Massachusetts. In 1997 Stadler was one of the first teachers awarded the prestigious National Bureau of Professional Teaching Standards (www.nbpts.org) Master Teacher certification in High School Mathematics. Stadler was a co-founder or Director of several companies in Massachusetts, including Clearpoint Research Corporation, which grew from zero to $70M in revenue under his general management. Stadler is a graduate of Harvard College (AB in Economics, magna cum laude; 1975) and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (MPP, 1979; PhD student (ABD) 1980-1982).

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John Stadler is an educator and start-up investor with seven years experience in China. He has been a principal, an investor, teacher, and Board member in several schools in China, ranging from Eton Academy (a kindergarten) to the Institute of Digital Design (a post-graduate training program in Animation, Visual Effects, and Compositing). Stadler wrote the first comprehensive consumer’s guide to international education in China – the Stadler’s Guide to Education for Beijing and Shanghai. He has investigated over 150 schools as due diligence for investments in the education sector in China. Prior to China, Stadler founded the Parker Charter School (www.parker.org) in Devens, Massachusetts (USA), where he was also a teacher. The school has grown in size and reputation; it is now one of the preeminent Essential schools (www.essentialschools.org) in the US; it has a long waiting list and students coming from nearly 40 districts in Massachusetts. In 1997 Stadler was one of the first teachers awarded the prestigious National Bureau of Professional Teaching Standards (www.nbpts.org) Master Teacher certification in High School Mathematics. Stadler was a co-founder or Director of several companies in Massachusetts, including Clearpoint Research Corporation, which grew from zero to $70M in revenue under his general management. Stadler is a graduate of Harvard College (AB in Economics, magna cum laude; 1975) and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (MPP, 1979; PhD student (ABD) 1980-1982).