Dr. Dionne McLaughlin
Dionne V. McLaughlin, Ed.D. is the Executive Director of Critical Reflections on Race and Equity Initiative (CRREI) and an Associate Professor at North Carolina Central University in the Curriculum and Instruction Department. She is a British-born Jamaican educator who is an experienced bilingual high school and elementary school principal and K-12 Director. She has 17 years of experience teaching, a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and a Master’s in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Recent publications: Book: Personalized Principal Leadership Practices: Eight Strategies for Leading Equitable, High Achieving Schools, Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina article: Personalized Principal Leadership Practices, Corwin book Insights: How Expert Principals Make Difficult Decisions, Book Chapter: New South Realities: Demographics, Diversity and Cultural Capital in The Sage Guide to Educational Leadership and Management (Fenwick English) an NCPEA article: How Administrators Can Improve Schools by Learning from the Experiences of African American and Latino High School Students, and a Book Chapter: Exemplary Leadership in Diverse Cultural Contexts in The Springer Handbook on Promoting Social Justice in Education (Rosemary Papa).
Dr. McLaughlin has led workshops on culturally responsive teaching, and making effective leadership decisions for teachers, principals and assistant principals. Dr. McLaughlin has also taught Anti-racism and Effective School Practices for All Students for K-12 administrators and teachers from 9 school districts, designed and taught Racism in America – A Contemporary and Historical Study, led Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Professional Development for all CHCCS principals and for teachers in 8 CHCCS schools, chaired the CHHS Equity Team and served as a member of the CHCCS District Equity Leadership Team. In addition, she taught Organizational Development and Diversity for School Leaders at Fayetteville State and at North Carolina Central University, she developed an Equity Certificate, created a new course- Leading High Achieving, Equitable Schools for African American and Latino Students and taught Community Relations: Building Social Capital for School Change with a focus on preparing educators to connect with families of color: the role of race and privilege in schools.