Irina Filipova

Founder of Happy Teachers Training and trainer. 

I have 17 years of experience in education. In the period 2007 - 2023 I worked at 119. SU "Acad. Mihail Arnaudov", Sofia. I started as a teacher, then I was a class teacher, and since 2016 - deputy director. In this role I was responsible for the qualification of pedagogical specialists, the implementation of project activities in the school and the meaningful implementation of technologies in the classroom. For 8 of the years as a teacher I was a basic teacher of students from the Faculty of Non-Profit Education at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". 

I have been a certified career consultant under the international GCDF program since 2011 and worked as such at the Career Guidance Center, RIO Sofia-city in 2012 - 2013.

I participated in the Education Technology Directors' program, USA, New York, 2016 and served as a mentor to the America for Bulgaria Foundation for the participants from the next cohort. Since 2018, I have been a certified Google teacher and as a Training Expert at the Center for Creative T, I trained teachers from the country on how to use Google's tools for education. Now I help school teams implement Google Workspace.

I am a scholarship holder in the "Pulse of Coaching" program of Mentor Coaches in the period 2020 - 2021.

I have a bachelor's degree in "Pedagogy" from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" and a master's degree in social work - "Qualification and Redirection of the Workforce".