Lessons that last beyond the classroom.
Mica Education grew from years of teaching English, building meaningful connections with students and discovering what makes learning truly memorable.
Through our language school in Rome, we worked with thousands of students, developing and refining lessons that combined creativity, genuine communication and carefully structured learning.
Today, we're sharing those resources, experiences and teaching ideas with educators around the world.
Who Are We
We are a couple of energetic, motivated and qualified teachers and creators, from New Zealand.
Eugene Marsden
I come from New Zealand and studied filmmaking and graphic design there before moving to Italy (mostly for the food!). I’m a father, runner, programmer and I’m very proud of my culture.
I help my students reach their potential and I like to motivate them with special challenges, multimedia projects, real-world examples and lots of laughter. I respect all of my students and appreciate that every person learns differently and all are capable of great things. I genuinely love what I do and am grateful to be able to watch my students find joy in learning English and the confidence to take on the world!
Maria Perrone
I come from New Zealand and have always loved learning! I am fascinated by how the world works and I love discovering new information to share with our students. I enjoy applying drama and improvisation activities to English lessons to encourage genuine, fun and memorable communication.
I collaborate with our teachers to create exciting creative projects for our students. The reward is seeing them light up with enthusiasm and passion as they discover their own strengths and abilities. We are proud to be helping our students become confident in speaking English and see what opportunities await them.
Some things in language can't simply be translated. They have to be experienced.
Our name comes from the Italian word mica — a small, everyday word whose meaning and emphasis can be surprisingly difficult to capture in translation.
Understanding a word like mica involves more than learning a dictionary definition. You need to hear how it's used, recognise the context and appreciate the feeling or intention behind it.
That's how we've always approached teaching English.
Through storytelling, drama, meaningful conversations and creative projects, we encouraged students to experience language rather than simply memorise it.
We wanted them to understand not just what an expression means, but how it feels, when it's appropriate and how to use it confidently themselves.
Experience it. Understand it. Make it your own.
Why we built Mica Education
We're ready to share our resources and systems with teachers and students around the world.
Innovation and creativity have always driven us
Teaching English in Italy unlocked a passion for both of us - seeing students thrive and discover new talents was immensely satisfying. Having fun while teaching by applying our own interests and hobbies (especially in film and drama) seemed to benefit our students even more. We established our own language school in Rome, Creative English, and it quickly grew to a great school teaching hundreds of students every year and achieving exciting results. We loved watching the school grow as our reputation spread by word-of-mouth. It was inspiring to see each new teacher we brought on contribute unique perspectives and passions.
Sharing with the worldwide teaching community
Our Engineering and Computer Science backgrounds meant that at every step along the way we built a system or a tool to improve that step and make it easier next time. We were able to run our school so efficiently by automating as many tasks as possible, to allow us to focus energy where it counted: tracking student progress, creating new projects and encouraging and supporting our teachers. That's when the lightbulb moment happened - we can share our management system and all our resources with teachers and students around the world who also want to save their time and focus on what matters most to them. That's when Mica Education was born. It's our way to make the tools we've built and enjoyed, work for others.
The Mica Approach
Connect with every student
Recognise individual strengths, interests and backgrounds. Encourage curiosity, contribution and confidence.
Experience language
Bring words and expressions to life through authentic conversations, storytelling, emotion and real situations.
Create with purpose
Use drama, filmmaking, music, technology and hands-on projects to give students meaningful reasons to communicate.
Build learning that lasts
Combine clear learning objectives with spaced practice, revision, feedback and opportunities to reuse language.
Prepare for real achievement
Support Cambridge exam success through carefully developed practice, effective strategies and authentic communication.
Keep learning alive
Encourage independence, cultural understanding and the confidence to use English beyond the classroom.
We didn't just talk about making things. We made them.
Our classrooms were places to explore, experiment and create.
Students produced short films, recorded podcasts, wrote songs, made music videos, built websites and participated in hands-on workshops.
These weren't simply fun additions to our lessons. They were meaningful projects that encouraged students to communicate, collaborate, solve problems and express their own ideas in English.
Our backgrounds in drama, effective communication, fine arts, filmmaking, graphic design and technology helped shape these experiences.
Behind the creativity was careful planning, clear learning objectives and opportunities to practise and develop language skills.
Real experiences. Real communication. Learning with purpose.
From our classrooms to yours
Mica Education brings years of classroom-developed teaching resources together with practical digital tools.
Teachers can discover lesson materials, preview worksheets, organise lesson plans and access multimedia resources in one place.
Our online practice area backs up what happens in the lesson, with Cambridge exam preparation and AI-supported feedback on speaking and writing tasks.
Technology continues to open up new possibilities, but our philosophy remains the same: meaningful learning begins with thoughtful teaching, creativity and genuine human connection.