Jeff Kalil joins Carolina Day School as their new Middle School Principal. He says he’s delighted to join the Wildcat community beginning this fall.
“I look forward to working with a team of
faculty who clearly know and love children at this stage of development, who
are passionate about sharing their expertise in content and skills, and who
take considered risks in a continual effort to improve their teaching,” said
Kalil.
Kalil has worked with middle school
children for almost 25 years. He began his teaching career at Hazelwood
Integrated College, while studying as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow in Belfast,
Northern Ireland. Upon returning to the States, Kalil was admitted to Teach for
America and placed as a Washington, D.C. corps member, where he completed a
two-year commitment to the students of Abraham Lincoln Multicultural Middle
School, an under-resourced public school in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood. It
was at Lincoln where Kalil learned to motivate reluctant learners, develop
academic and outdoor education curriculum from scratch, and advocate for
schools with grantors. Kalil then began a 15-year career as a middle school
teacher and administrator at Georgetown Day School, a Pre-K/12 independent
school on the northwest side of the city. Georgetown Day is known for its
commitment to social justice work and its creation of engaged citizens. Most
recently, Kalil was the Middle School Director at The Orchard School in
Indianapolis, Indiana, an independent school with historical and lasting ties
to the Progressive philosophy of educational reformer, John Dewey. In all these
varied settings, Kalil has practiced and fostered an engaging, experiential
approach to teaching, learning, and curriculum development.
Kalil earned a Bachelors of Arts degree
from Haverford College (Haverford, PA) in Philosophy and an MALS from
Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.) in Theology and Religious Studies.
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