Dr. Lorraine Monroe

Dr. Lorraine Monroe is also founding principal of the renowned Frederick Douglass Academy in Central Harlem and is on extended leave from Bank Street College of Education where she taught graduate courses and founded and directed the Center for Minority Achievement.

Dr. Monroe translates her extensive experience in New York City public schools - as teacher, dean, assistant principal, principal and Deputy Chancellor for Curriculum and Instruction - into the guiding set of Monroe Leadership Principles that define the work of the School Leadership Academy.

Dr. Monroe is a national and international consultant whose groundbreaking work has been featured on 60 Minutes, Tony Brown's Journal, in Ebony Magazine, The New York Times, and in the Reader's Digest.

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