Ashoka
StarShine began as a laboratory experiment in 2002, within a real school, to develop the very best idea of educaon forall children, regardless of any other factors, focusing on individual potenal and responsibility for self and StarShine began as a laboratory experiment in 2002, within a real school, to develop the very best idea of educaon forall children, regardless of any other factors, focusing on individual potenal and responsibility for self and others.
StarShine Academy is a system of K-12 charter and private schools recognized as transformational innovators in education: Super Schools. You can’t measure Super Schools with today’s measurements of a few test scores because they require the outstanding growth of a whole human being. StarShine Academy believes every child is born for responsibility and abundance, once they learn how to attain it and sustain it. At StarShine they build more than great students of the 21st Century, they build great humans wanting to spend their lives learning, changing, challenging, improving and helping others. StarShine is dedicated to preparing each child for success. They do so by combining outstanding learning, compassion, understanding how the brain learns, and the ability to recognize that each child has specialized needs determined by their current knowledge and skills, their learning style and their goals. At StarShine, self-empowerment, an appreciation for finer things, along with self-discipline are deemed essential to success. The StarShine 15 Guiding Principles are woven throughout all practices. StarShine’s curriculum combines the very best in learning discoveries, and Systems Thinking, particularly in developing StarShine’s Spiral Curriculum, interwoven in Montessori practices for body, mind, spirit, health, wealth and happiness. In recognition of their efforts StarShine is nationally and internationally accredited by AdvancED, and honored by the United Nations and the Vatican as Schools for Peace.
Trish McCarty
Trish McCarty fights for every child's right to become a successful person through obtaining the best education.In 1999, Trish McCarty was fed up with the education system and formed Education Resources, LLC, to bring top educators, scientists, success coaches and thought leaders together in Think Tanks to redesign K‐12 education through the use of technology.
As a result of the tragedies of 9/11/01 and fearing “As long as one person on the planet is poorly educated, all of the rest of us are at risk.” In 2002, she left her career in banking and technology, cashed out her life savings and opened StarShine Academy International School, a charity, K‐12 charter school for underprivileged children, to be an experiential proving ground for developing better education systems. The focus of StarShine ethos is success in body, mind, spirit, health, wealth and happiness through financial literacy, responsibility, respect, entrepreneur-ism, community building, brain training, a love of learning and sustainability along with STEAM; science, technology, engineering, arts, and math. Last year, Ms. McCarty reached a new paradigm, completing a$13,000,000 EcoVillage Creative Community K‐12 campus, inspired by her board member and Frank Lloyd Wright protégé, Architect, Vernon Swaback.
Trish McCarty had a global view as an Air Force BRAT, born in Frankfurt, Germany, raised in Tokyo, Japan,California, Colorado and Nebraska. While studying medical technology, brain science and business at FortLewis College in Durango, Colorado, she was recruited to work for AT&T to enter their executive leadership program and later, was offered an executive position with Mellon Bank, which brought her to Phoenix, Arizona.She formed a bank and was featured as one of the U.S. fastest growing companies in INC magazine.
In August of 2009, Trish was asked to travel to Liberia, Africa to provide training to 800 teachers, the largest group of teachers ever trained together there. Her book "The StarShine Effect" was published by Harvard in 2012. McCarty has practiced and taught Yoga since age seventeen.
