A small school that treats its students like readers, thinkers, and makers.
Shuren International Education was founded in 2019 by three teachers who wanted to run small online cohorts the way they had run small classrooms — closely, slowly, and with materials they were proud to put their names on.
From three teachers to a global cohort.
The school started with a single cohort of six students learning written English over video calls during the long winter of 2019. The teachers wrote their own worksheets; the parents asked if they could print them. Within a year there were nine teachers, fifty students, and a small print run of the first Shuren reader.
Today we publish twelve original products, run live cohorts every six weeks, and ship materials to forty-one countries from a small warehouse in Tallinn. We remain deliberately small. We cap each cohort at eight, every reader gets one tutor, and we don’t teach anything we wouldn’t want our own children to study.
Six principles we keep coming back to.
Internal documents become public when they describe how a school treats its students. These principles are pinned in every staff meeting agenda.
Small is the point.
We cap cohorts so tutors can read every submission. We will turn families away before we will raise the cap.
Write less, read more.
Our materials are short and dense. We trust students with real books instead of long printouts.
Pay teachers fairly.
Tutors are paid per cohort, not per session, so they have time to plan and respond.
No homework theatre.
Homework only exists if a tutor will actually read it and respond personally.
Ship to where families live.
We send physical materials to 41 countries. Where we cannot ship, we offer a digital substitute.
Tell parents the truth.
If a programme isn’t a fit for a student, we say so before the first session, and refund without question.
Where the materials come from.
Editorial in Tallinn
Our editor commissions every reader, illustrator and consulting expert. Manuscripts pass a children’s editorial board before print.
Print in the EU
Books and workbooks are printed in Lithuania on FSC-certified stock. We avoid laminated covers wherever possible.
Fulfilment in Tallinn
Kits are assembled and packed in our own warehouse. Orders placed by 14:00 EET ship the same working day.