We want to celebrate our accomplishments of 2025 with a Reception at The Lodge at the Regency Center in San Francisco.
Chef Adair will provide gourmet cuisine along with fine wines. Come and enjoy music, silent auction, and a Fund-A-Need on Wednesday, March 18th, 2026 at 5:30 pm, as we honor John Gilmour, an amazing educator.
John Gilmour is a South African educator and social entrepreneur who founded the first LEAP Science and Maths School in Langa, Cape Town, in 2004, growing it into a network of schools serving township communities and later establishing the LEAP Institute to extend this work into community hubs, teacher development and systems change. He was also a founding force behind the Global Teachers Institute, which arose from LEAP’s teacher development work and was supported by Teach With Africa from concept to full establishment as an independent teacher development network.
In 2007, he worked with Margie and Larry Schlenoff as LEAP’s founding partner to help establish Teach With Africa, creating a reciprocal exchange of teachers and ideas between South Africa and the United States. Over the years, he has been shaped by working alongside Teach With Africa fellows and ambassadors in LEAP classrooms and communities, whose contributions have helped prepare a new generation of South African leaders, many of whom are alumni of these exchanges and now guide LEAP into its next chapter.