Dr. Angelic Dean

I am currently a school principal at a K-8 school in Columbus, Ohio, and I also consider myself to be an educational leader and a researcher. A lot of my work at my school has been focused on my dissertation topic, which has been the secondary trauma of educators. Our students bring so much into the building as it relates to their own personal trauma, but how are we caring for the educators who are dealing with those traumas on the frontline? With my staff this is center of the work that I do. From this work, I have also developed an organization outside of this called the APlus+Dean's List, which really focuses on professional development for educators surrounding educator wellness, leadership development, and really just creating those wellness spaces where educators can thrive. My long-term vision is to be impacting educators and organizations on a larger scale, but really just keeping that wellness piece in the center of it, understanding that when our schools are not healthy, then our students can't thrive academically or socially. It is just so very important to make sure that the people who are taking care of our children are healthy. I have worked in nonprofit as well, including with Big Brothers Big Sisters where I was the mentor coordinator working with different mentor matches, as well as with a low-income housing organization where I was the director training individuals to teach other residents to to cultivate early literacy with their children, focusing on children ages 0 to 5. I was also at The Ohio State University where I was a program manager for a program in one of our communities, serving to increase family engagement, strategic planning, cultivating partnerships within the school and the community as whole, and removing non academic barriers . I then became a dean of students in my current school before becoming the building principal.