Bailey Thomson serves as the SPARK Schools Director of School Design.  In her role, Bailey is responsible for ensuring that SPARK's personalized and blended learning model delivers SPARK's promise of high quality education at an affordable cost for all South African children.  After graduating from the College of William and Mary in the United States in 2010, Bailey began her career in education as a Teach For America corps member at Rocketship Mateo Sheedy, the first school in the network that pioneered blended learning in the United States.  Bailey taught Grade 2 and 3 math and participated in Rocketship's Emerging Leaders Program.  

In August 2012, Bailey moved to Johannesburg, South Africa to join the founding team of SPARK Schools.  In the past four years, Bailey has led the design and innovation of both the foundation phase (K-3) and intermediate phase (4-7) personalized learning models in each of SPARK's eight schools.