I am an independent consultant specializing in diversity and equity in K-12 education.
I have two decades of experience as a classroom teacher, teacher trainer, curriculum designer, content developer and writer.
I taught middle and high school social studies and literacy for 11 years in public, charter and alternative schools in Newark, NJ and Washington, DC where I also spent two years as an instructional coach and new teacher mentor. I have worked with non-profit organizations such as One World Education, the Children’s Defense Fund's Freedom Schools program and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance Project.
While at Teaching Tolerance, I developed a number of resources and helped lead several projects. I am the chief architect of the award-winning literacy-based anti-bias K-12 curriculum, Perspectives for a Diverse America and principle author of the Social Justice Standards, a first-ever set of benchmarks for anti-bias education. I designed instructional tools such as Civil Rights Done Right and Reading Diversity and was central to the development of resources like Teaching 'The New Jim Crow' and Critical Practices for Anti-bias Education. I have authored articles about the school to prison pipeline, culturally competent instructional coaching, white racial identity and diverse literature.
As a school deeply committed to anti-bias education, Campbell Hall uses social justice standards as a gateway to reinforce its dedication to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ). Every teacher at Campbell Hall has undergone training in the social justice standards, and all students from grades 3-12 have had at least one class experience with a redesigned curriculum incorporating these standards. This approach not only strengthens our faculty, already experts in their respective fields but also enhances their ability to implement the social justice standards in their teaching. This firm commitment to DEIJ inspired Campbell Hall to welcome other schools and educators interested in exploring a similar approach to curriculum redesign.
Please contact Associate Head of School Christopher Dennis at dennisc@campbellhall.org or 818.505.5308 with any questions.
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Campbell Hall is an independent, Episcopal, K-12 all gender day school. We are a community of inquiry committed to academic excellence and to the nurturing of decent, loving, and responsible human beings.
Nondiscriminatory Policy as to Students Campbell Hall admits students of any race, color, gender, sexual orientation, national, and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, national, and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletics and other school-administered programs.