Built by a principal and an engineer.

Shay Standish is an educator and school leader with 25 years in education. She has served as a classroom teacher, Student Work Study Teacher, Special Education Resource Teacher, Vice-Principal, and Principal across elementary and secondary settings, and she has led board and ministry initiatives focused on student achievement, inclusive education, mathematics, technology integration, and professional learning.

Her work has shaped system-wide programming in Growth Mindset, Closing the Gap mathematics, Applied Behaviour Analysis, Christian Meditation, and professional learning communities built to lift achievement and well-being for staff and students alike. She holds a Master of Education in Professional Leadership from Western University, a Bachelor of Education from Brock University, and an Honours Bachelor of Science from McMaster University. She is an Ontario Certified Teacher with specialist qualifications in Special Education, Religious Education, and school leadership through the Principal's Qualification Program.

Outside of work, Shay is a wife and mother of three teenagers, and caretaker of what she affectionately calls "a zoo of my own creation," three cats and a dog. Shay and her brother Beau built The Teaching Vault from that same shared passion for education. Every resource reflects a principal's eye for what teachers actually need in the classroom. Whether in the classroom, the school community, or at home, her greatest joy comes from helping others grow, succeed, and discover their unique gifts.

Beau Standish is the Chief Enabling Technologies Officer at Orthofix Medical. He co-founded 7D Surgical and served as its CEO from 2014 to 2021, through its acquisition by SeaSpine, where he stayed on as the lead for enabling technologies. He holds more than 50 patents in the medical device market. His work has been recognized as a two-time Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, a MedTech Innovator of the Year (Global) Finalist, and a multi time winner of RYOrtho Spine Technology Awards.

Before that, Beau taught electrical and computer engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University, where he won the overall departmental teaching award and earned the Dean's Teaching Award twice. He has published more than 55 peer-reviewed papers, conference proceedings, and book chapters, and has supervised more than 30 final-year thesis students. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from McMaster University and a PhD in Medical Biophysics from the University of Toronto, where he was a Terry Fox Scholar of the National Cancer Institute of Canada.

Outside of work, Beau is a husband and father of two, with a house full of pets. He is passionate about fitness and about mentoring startups and early growth companies to be the best they can be. Beau and his sister Shay built The Teaching Vault from a shared passion for education. They saw a gap that no one was filling, a missing standard for teachers, and they continue to draw on their teaching experience and technical skills to create every resource it holds.