Zoe Dudzic earned her Bachelor of Science in Childhood Education and English from SUNY Buffalo State University in 2025, graduating Summa Cum Laude. A Buffalo, NY native, she grew up surrounded by Western New York staples such as chicken wings, snowy winters, and hockey.
Ms. Dudzic’s love of international education began when she first started studying Mandarin Chinese, a passion she later pursued formally at Buffalo State while serving as a representative for the university’s Center for China Studies. She has traveled to Japan, Canada, and Colombia, and completed a student teaching placement in a 4th grade IB PYP classroom in Medellín, Colombia. There, she co-planned transdisciplinary units integrating ELA, social studies, and science, and delivered English phonics instruction to a classroom of 100% English Language Learners.
Across her work in Buffalo and beyond, Ms. Dudzic has worked with ELL, immigrant, refugee, and international students in K-8 settings, and she is skilled in differentiation, inquiry-based learning, and culturally responsive pedagogy grounded in the IB Learner Profile. She believes the strongest academic outcomes grow from trust, and that education should treat the multilingual and transnational knowledge students bring to the classroom as an academic asset.
Outside the classroom, Ms. Dudzic enjoys baking and cooking, journaling with a well-loved stationery collection, and reading both fiction and non-fiction. Fluent in English and conversational in Mandarin Chinese, with Spanish (and now, Albanian!) studies underway, Ms. Dudzic is excited to grow as an educator at ILG in Kosovo.
