Brooke Schofield (OSG Adelaide) and Ellen Lewis (OSG Perth) recognised among the country’s top 40 teachers under 35 – with OSG also placing in the top 30 schools list.
The Rising Star list celebrates early-career educators who are already shaping the future of Australian education through measurable student outcomes, innovative practice, and leadership well beyond their years.
In just four years of teaching, Brooke has delivered global curriculum impact, lifted student academic performance, and achieved leadership outcomes that surpass expectations for any teachers this early in their career.
As the Years 5/6 Primary Teacher at OSG Adelaide, Brooke delivered a 4% lift in literacy and language development in a single MAP Growth cycle – outperforming global expectations on our internationally recognised assessment tool. She exceeded OSG’s educator persona benchmark, and was promoted to Primary Lead after just three years.
Her standout contribution is the Years 3–6 Big Business Unit – a cross-curricular program spanning humanities, literacy, technologies, and numeracy that enables students to design sustainable products, develop business plans, and operate market stalls. The unit, which Brooke spent more than 60 hours developing, has since been adopted across 120+ OSG campuses in North America, New Zealand, Europe, and Australia.
OSG’s Global Head of Education Paul Maher said of Brooke’s classroom practice: “It is a testament to Brooke’s teaching that her students are not merely memorising facts, but learning how to understand, process, and articulate complex ideas right from the start.”
At just 26 years old, with 4.5 years of teaching experience, Ellen is a reliable, capable, and quietly influential early-career educator. During OSG’s internal nomination process, she received the highest number of national nominations from senior staff, who described her as having “a profound impact on learning outcomes,” “an unwavering
commitment to PD,” and “an innovative approach with clear leadership potential.”
Ellen’s leadership was pivotal during OSG Perth’s transition from a 20- to 40-student team-teaching model in the Years 3–4 cohort. She co-designed new routines, group structures, and behaviour systems that ensured every child continued to feel known, supported, and confident in the larger cohort.
Her data-driven approach to instruction has produced exceptional results: in 2024, nine of her students achieved more than 20 RIT points of growth across reading, language usage, maths, and science – more than double the typical benchmark for this age group.
Ellen also redesigned OSG Perth’s excursion program from the ground up, securing three new venues focused on First Nations learning, science, and history – all now embedded in the school’s pre-approved database. Beyond the classroom, she coordinates Jump Rope for Heart across four WA campuses (having raised more than $100,000 over the last three years).
Brooke and Ellen’s recognition – alongside OneSchool Global’s placement in the top 30 schools – demonstrates the calibre of teaching and learning across our campuses. Both educators exemplify what it means to lead from the classroom: rigorous, student-centred, community-minded, and quietly transformative.
Congratulations, Brooke and Ellen. We are very proud.
🔗 Read the full list on The Educator: https://www.theeducatoronline.com/k12/best-in-education/top-teachers-and-educators-in-australia-under-35/288892
