Empowering teachers and students for a brighter future.

ABOUT US

Supporting education and innovation.

We envision a new leadership paradigm with humanistic instructional design.

Our Mission

Through excellent professional development, Pangea empowers teachers to galvanize students to develop knowledge, skills and dispositions to maximize their potential.

Our Vision

Pangea aspires to help educators create a learning environment where students are empowered citizens who make informed decisions for a sustainable and peaceful world.

SERVICES

We are a women-owned company and provide education solutions to schools, principals, educators, and parents. We offer a range of services including workshops, 1-1 consultation, and school improvement plans.

Whether you choose from one of the following services or indicate a need your organization or school has, we will customize all workshops to your needs and context.

We co-create solutions to everyday classroom challenges and reimagine the instructional design for maximum student growth
Workshop Topics
- Classroom Management
- Calm Corners
- The Workshop Model
- Reflective Teaching and Learning
- Balanced Literacy
- Read Aloud & Shared Reading
- Guided Reading
- Literature Circles
- Independent Reading
- Word Study
- Summative & Formative Assessment
- Reading Workshop
- Writing Workshop
- How to Differentiate Instruction
- Documenting Student Learning
- Data & Instruction
- Nonfiction Text
- Restorative Justice
- Concept-Based Learning
- Inquiry-Based Classroom
- Thinking Routines
- Teacher Talk
- Student Agency: Voice, Choice, and Ownership
- Maker Spaces and Tinkering Classroom
- Working with strong-willed Children
We transform schools into Professional Learning Communities® (Dufour)
- Core Areas of Improvement
- Focus on learning and collaboration
- Cultural shift
- Teaching and assessment
- Principal’s role
We provide customized coaching based on the needs of individual educators and institutions.

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MEET THE FOUNDER

Aliya Jafari

Aliya Jafari is a constructivist educator, a professional learning coach, and the founder of Pangea: Learning without Borders. She has served as an academic coach, International Baccalaureate coordinator, homeroom teacher, and learning support over her education career spanning 18 years. With an M.Ed and coaching certification, she is also trained in IB philosophy, Reggio Emilia approach, design and systems thinking. Aliya actively seeks learning opportunities to hone her craft.

Having taught in the U.S, Egypt, Pakistan, India, Switzerland, and now Jordan, Aliya worries that too many children receive mediocre education, which she sees as a violation of the rights of the child. A strong advocate for student agency, Aliya wants to help each child develop their full potential and live a choice-filled life. She believes this goal can be achieved through rigorous and high-quality instructional design and classroom practice.

Aliya has published and presented in conferences on topics including, but not limited to tinkering, classroom management, comprehension strategies, learner agency, and reading & writing workshops, etc.

Pangea: Learning without Borders is Aliya's way to realize her mission. Under this umbrella, she coaches teachers in pedagogy and classroom practice and offers her literacy expertise for developing cutting-edge reading platforms.

When not planning her next learning experience, Aliya spends her time reading, practicing yoga, traveling, exploring historic sites, and tinkering.

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Testimonials

Lahore Grammar School

“With an amazing core knowledge, composure and capacity to conceptualize big ideas into manageable learning objectives, Aliya developed fantastic workshops on 21st-century learning for over two hundred teachers at the Lahore Grammar Johar Town cluster of schools. Her positive energy, passion and clear direction led many of our teachers to claim it was the best PD they’ve ever received. Aliya, it cannot be said enough times nor with greater urgency: we need more of what you do and we cannot wait to have you back in Lahore!”
Anum Maqsood
Director of Development
Lahore, Pakistan
City of Knowledge School

“It was very fortunate for me to get a chance to learn from Aliya Jafari. Aliya showed me how I could successfully implement the "accountability talk for students" model in my classroom, as a result of which I saw an increase in student ownership of their work.”
Zehra Kashif
ELA 2nd & 3rd grade,
Atlanta, GA, U.S.A
International Community School

“When I was a math teaching assistant, Mrs. Jafari coached me on how to assess students to identify their needs, prepare for and effectively instruct students in small groups.”
Htwe Htwe Niang
Community Engagement Coordinator
Atlanta, GA, U.S.A
City of Knowledge School

“One of the biggest impacts for our school during our professional development with Ms. Aliya Jafari was opening the door to rethinking how to reach those academic expectations in a virtual world and maximize engagement. Ms. Jafri listened to our teachers, worked one to one with them from grade levels of Preschool through 8th grades and all core subjects, foreign language and religion.”
Astrid Ross
Principal, Prek-12
Atlanta, GA, U.S.A
Max Learning Matters

“The Skills for the 21st Century Classroom highlighted key skills and attitudes teachers need to inculcate in students - but the true highlight of the workshop was the exercises and reflections she facilitated among participants. Participants highlighted how the workshop emulated a classroom setting, the strategies Aliya shared about classroom management, and the proactiveness with which she catered to every participant's query. Looking forward to the next workshop Aliya takes with us.”
Vishwa Srivastava
Head of Teaching & Learning
India
Azraq School for Syrian Families

“Mrs. Jafari is a great coach who gave us everything that is useful for managing classrooms like resolving disputes between students, and how to receive and respond to students' needs appropriately. She delivered everything she promised and more."
Haneen Alafeer
1st grade teacher
Azraq, Jordan