NAESP Associate Member, Principal Baruti Kafele to Speak in Honor of Black History Month
Internationally-renowned education speaker and consultant, Principal Baruti Kafele will be speaking about Black History Month at Centenary College in Hackettstown, N.J. at 7 p.m., on Feb. 26, in the Little Theatre in the Edward W. Seay Administration Building. This opportunity was made possible through Centenary’s Alumni Association Executive Board, Alumni Engagement Department and the Educational Opportunity Program.
Principal Kafele is the recipient of the National Alliance of Black School Educators Hall of Fame Award, the New Jersey Education Association Award of Excellence and the prestigious Milken National Educator Award. In addition to being an internationally-renowned education speaker and consultant, he is the best-selling author of "Closing the Attitude Gap and Motivating Black Males to Achieve in School and in Life." His newest title, "The Principal 50: Critical Leadership Questions for Inspiring School-wide Excellence" is forthcoming in March, 2015.
He is one of the most sought-after speakers for transforming the attitudes of at-risk student populations in America.
His seminars focus on “hard hitting, no-nonsense” male empowerment meetings. He works with hundreds of schools and districts to assist them with closing what he coined, the “attitude gap” – the gap between those students who have the will to strive for academic excellence and those who do not.
As an elementary school teacher in East Orange, Principal Kafele was selected as the East Orange School District and Essex County Public Schools Teacher of the Year. As a middle and high school principal, he led the transformation of four different urban New Jersey schools, improvement to national acclaim, which included U.S. News and World Report Magazine recognizing it as one of the America’s best high schools.
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