Our team

Small steps. Big trust.

Meet the people who will be beside your child, every single day.

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A teacher and a child at play
Small people, big possibilities.

The people behind Boka Academy

A small team. A careful one.

Different backgrounds, one aim: children who are happy, curious and sure of themselves.

Vesna Kipa

Vesna Kipa

Director · primary school teacher

35 years in the classroom

Co-author of the official school textbooks.

Maria Borodkin

Maria Borodkin

Founder · curriculum author

Mother of three

A curriculum she tested at home first.

Tatjana

Tatjana

Professor of Russian · speech therapist

10 years in speech therapy

Support for speech and language learning.

S

Svetlana

Preschool teacher

Who else is with the children every day

The people you will see as often as the teachers.

Dragana Bašić

Dragana Bašić

Teaching assistant

Beside the teacher all day long. In her own words: I try to build a warm, positive environment where every child feels safe and seen.

Danica Krunić

Danica Krunić

Nurse

Born in Kotor, where she finished her training in 2020. She passed the state nursing exam in 2021 and worked at the Tivat health centre before joining us.

Svetlana Shushania, cook

Svetlana Shushania

Cook

She grew up in a large family in Abkhazia, where respect and support mattered most. Of children she says: they are pure and sincere.

Experience that stays in the classroom.

Vesna co-wrote the textbooks Montenegrin children learn from. That is not a line for a bio — it is a way of working that walks into our room every morning.

What matters to us in working with children

Experience

Everyone here worked with children long before Boka Academy existed. For no one is this the first job in the field.

Verifiable

The licences, the textbooks and the years are on this page so you can check them, not so they look good.

Two languages

English in the classroom, Montenegrin the moment a child needs it. Without that, the first weeks turn into a shock.

The same faces

The same person greets your child every morning. Rotating adults is the fastest way to ruin a small class.

We follow the our own curriculum, taught in English, drawn from the best educational practice around the world.

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