Barbara Leilani Brazil Keys

• Supervised and evaluated teaching and support staff through instructional leadership and professional development.
• Partnered with principal to administer school program in alignment with vision and goals, providing positive, high-expectation academic environment.
• Built and maintained positive relationships with diverse stakeholders, such as families and community partners.
• Supported hiring, training, and disciplinary action in compliance with legal guidelines and requirements.
• Built productive relationships with parents of students facing difficult situations at school or at home.

• Provides training and implementation support on building inclusive, culturally responsive, and anti-racist climates that honor the culture, experiences, and humanity of students, families, and community
• Designs, coordinates and delivers professional learning opportunities for school and division staff aligned to cross departmental goals and objectives, including a Culturally Responsive Teaching Certification program for teachers and administrators resulting in the development of a division-level Culturally Responsive Teaching framework
• Assists school and division leadership and instructional staff with professional learning and effective use of culturally responsive and research-based best practices to eliminate equity gaps
• Serves as a liaison to district offices and work groups to support the application of an equity lens in decision making, policy development, teacher evaluation, curriculum development and instruction.

• Collaborated with Elementary School leaders to implement School-wide Professional Learning Plan for Culturally responsive teaching and learning resulting in an increase in SOL scores in Mathematics
• Created a Logic Model and strategic plan for the newly-created SEAD Team to enhance division-wide focus on Social Emotional learning
• Built collective capacity of staff at Cale Elementary School to combat achievement and opportunity gaps.

• Collaborated with colleagues both in and out of Albemarle High School to create project-based curriculum, provide a model for best teaching practice, culturally-responsive teaching methodology, and ESOL student mentoring resulting in increase in student graduation rates
• Created and developed thematic curriculum for an Ethnic Studies class which covered an overview of the history of People of Color in the United States using multimedia resources and current events.

• Created and implemented a unique history curriculum in this Hawaiian language immersion charter school, which emphasized the link between Indigenous Peoples' History and United States History
• Facilitated culturally-relevant writing and reading workshop for 6th through 8th grade students
• Co-taught ecological studies and hands-on field work in Oahu's Manoa Rainforest.

Administration and Supervision PreK-12, Elementary Education PreK-6, English as a Second Language, PreK-12, History and Social Studies, 2020-2030

National Board Certification