BOOMERANG CLASSROOM

About the founder

Built from the classroom outward.

Boomerang Classroom is led by a working High School English Department Chair with over twenty years in the room.

Painted portrait of Drew Snow, founder of Boomerang Classroom, standing in his classroom beside a desk with a laptop and open notebook, in front of a whiteboard marked 'English II Literature Seminar'.
Drew Snow — Founder & CEO

Drew Snow

Founder & CEO · High School English Department Chair

Drew Snow is a high school English department chair and member of the school leadership team in Chicago, where he has taught for over two decades. He has twice been named a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar, studying Chaucer and the Middle Ages at Yale and Shakespeare at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Most recently, Drew was selected as a Fulbright Distinguished Teacher Researcher in Greece, focusing on how schools can better support student voice and agency. He has also served as a teacher consultant to the ACT exam, a Reader for the AP® English Literature exam, and a curriculum consultant for Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where he helped design coursework aligned to AP® Seminar.

Painterly illustration of four high school students working together in a school library at a wooden table, with books, a laptop, sticky notes, and notebooks — a poster reading 'Knowledge is Power' on the wall behind them.
Where the work actually happens.