Andrés López Schrader
“I believe that all students have the right to quality education where relationships and intercultural exposure are centered through genuine curious questions and deep listening.”
Andrés is a versatile science, math, and languages teacher with a wide, international background who builds strong relationships with his students and ignited their curiosity.
Andrés’ earned his bachelor’s degree in biology at New York University (NYU) in Abu Dhabi, where he focused on interactions between marine organisms that provide resilience to climate change, such as heat-resistant corals. While at NYU, Andrés’ studied at five different countries, including a semester in Paris to study French linguistics and sociology. During a gap year in college, he discovered a passion for access to education while developing an English immersion curriculum for a Peruvian startup.
After graduating, Andrés received certification in secondary mathematics through the Louisiana State Department of Education. He also served as a Teach for America Corps member at a STEM charter school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Here, alongside his official role as a mathematics and science teacher, he inaugurated a coding on iPad club, started a middle school rock band, and collaborated with professors at Louisiana State University (LSU) to expose students to Science Research Mentorship.
Andrés now works as a middle school Spanish and French teacher, helping advance intercultural exchange and place-based learning at the Browning School in New York City with a focus on boys’ education. In this role, he has led overnight trips to West Virginia and the Bahamas. Andrés is fluent in English, Spanish, and French, and proficient in Arabic and Hebrew. In his free time, you can find him playing rugby with a local rugby team wherever he is based, or learning new juggling and unicycling tricks.
This summer, Andrés will be leading a high school language immersion trip to France. In the fall, Andrés will be attending NYU Steinhardt’s M.A. program in International Education with a focus on Study Abroad and Cross-Cultural Exchange.
In Andrés’s words
I believe that all students have the right to quality education where relationships and intercultural exposure are centered through genuine curious questions and deep listening. Strong relationships that exude mutual trust with teachers are primordial for students to progress in their learning confidently. I foster these bonds with students by leading with empathy: asking genuinely curious questions and listening attentively and deeply to my students’ desires and needs. In return, I encourage students to push past their perceived boundaries by setting high expectations, offering immediate feedback, and holding them accountable.
Intercultural exposure is highlighted in all of my classes since I know we learn best when we approach our interpersonal and intercultural differences as exciting opportunities for growth. I teach my students to analyse and question their internal biases when they meet someone they perceive as different to themselves, either because of their physical appearance, opinions, or linguistic expression. As such, learning how to ask excellent open-ended questions that start enlightening conversations is a focus in all of my language classes.
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