Mrs. Jewel Sanders is an equity warrior who has had 25 years of experience in education. She’s a native New Yorker and has worked in three different school systems as a teacher, parent/community liaison, department chair, staff development teacher, administrator, and currently, a middle school principal at Rosa Parks Middle School in Montgomery County Public Schools.

 

Mrs. Sanders believes in inspiring and nurturing student leaders. She sponsors a Student Diversity Leadership Team (SDLT). This group of students works in and outside the school to focus on providing equity and a welcoming environment for all students. She’s created a platform for SDLT to partner with other student leadership groups and/or outside organizations to lead a diversity conference for middle school students, facilitate school-wide lessons centering around films on diversity and /or character building, survey peers to capture student voice data, and so much more! She wrote the article, Student Leadership: A Principal’s Point of View in 2019, a response to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. 

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Mrs. Sanders earned a BA in English and minored in Africana Studies at the State University of New York at Albany (SUNY Albany), and a Masters Degree in English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She currently is a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore.