Love, Rigor, & Justice in our Schools: Activist and Educator Sharif El-Mekki

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The Sea Change Podcast

Ellen Mahoney

20 episodes

4 days ago

Exploring the social and emotional experience of learning and development for educators and youth development professionals around the world. Join Ellen Mahoney, expert in Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and mentoring in international schools, as she interviews school and youth development leaders who share insight into the opportunities of this moment and the meaning they are making along the way. For more resources on advisory, mentoring, and transitions support, visit www.seachangementoring.com. For more resources on adult SEL, visit www.circulusinstitute.org.

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Love, Rigor, & Justice in our Schools: Activist and Educator Sharif El-Mekki

The Sea Change Podcast

37 minutes 34 seconds

4 years ago

Love, Rigor, & Justice in our Schools: Activist and Educator Sharif El-Mekki

Sharif El-Mekki is the Founder and CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development. The Center exists to ensure there will be equity in the recruiting, training, hiring, and retention of quality educators that reflect the cultural backgrounds and share common socio-political interests of the students they serve. The Center is developing a nationally relevant model to measurably increase teacher diversity and support Black educators through four pillars: Professional Learning, Pipeline, Policies, and Pedagogy. So far, the Center has developed ongoing and direct professional learning, mentoring, and coaching opportunities for Black teachers and other educators serving students of color.

The Center also carries forth the freedom or liberation school legacy by hosting Freedom School sites that incorporates research-based curricula and exposes high school and college students to the teaching profession to help fuel a pipeline of Black educators.

Prior to founding the Center, El-Mekki served as a nationally recognized principal and U.S. Department of Education Principal Ambassador Fellow. His school, Mastery Charter Shoemaker, was recognized by President Obama and Oprah Winfrey, and was awarded the prestigious EPIC award for three consecutive years as being amongst the top three schools in the country for accelerating students’ achievement levels. The Shoemaker Campus was also recognized as one of the top ten middle school and top ten high schools in the state of Pennsylvania for accelerating the achievement levels of African-American students.

In 2014, El-Mekki founded The Fellowship – Black Male Educators for Social Justice, an organization dedicated to recruiting, retaining, and developing Black male teachers. El-Mekki blogs on Phillys7thWard, is a member of the 8 Black Hands podcast and serves on several boards and committees focused on educational and racial justice.

For more information on Adult SEL, visit Circulus Institute.

For more information about mentoring and advisory programs in international schools, visit Sea Change Mentoring