Rashid’s Abbreviated Bio

As a way of life, I have served and educated children for 20 years in a collection of roles, including, but not limited to: elementary lead teacher, assistant principal, education director, principal, and adjunct professor. I taught first, fourth, fifth and sixth grades at Bruce-Monroe Elementary School, a District of Columbia Public School (DCPS), and graduate courses at American University in the areas of Effective Pedagogy for Diverse Learners and Language Arts in Elementary Classrooms.  I taught and led schools in Washington, DC, Brooklyn, New York and Grand Rapids, Michigan.

I was previously the Director of Race, Gender, Education and Equity Programming at the Mid-Atlantic Equity Center (MAEC), Principal at Children's Studio School Public Charter School, Assistant Principal of Instruction at HYDE Leadership Public Charter School, the Founding Principal/Chief Academic Officer of Imagine Me Leadership Charter School for Boys, the Director of Education at the Trilok School, the Principal of New Branches Charter Academy, and the Director of Curriculum and Instruction at Invictus Preparatory Charter School.  I currently serve schools as the Director of School Support – Mid-Atlantic Region for Achievement Network (ANet).

I have an unrelenting desire to continue coaching and developing teachers and school leaders, create curriculum, data, and instructional frameworks, and build efficient school-wide systems to improve the most persistently dangerous and/or most impacted schools.