Principal Brian Jones Certified by Puerto Rico Board of Education

Based in Baltimore City, Maryland, Principal Brian Jones has based his academic career on a wide variety of pertinent and valuable skills which have proved irreplaceable in his service toolbox as an educator.  Jones has been certified by the Board of Education of Puerto Rico as an instructor and supervisor of bilingual education, able to actively participate and affect the teaching of both languages through his bilingualism in reading, writing and speaking of English and Spanish.  Jones’ bilingual abilities have become increasingly more important to students in American schools.  Jones was trained in the analysis and use of student and teacher data to inform his decisions about increasing student achievement in his district.  Sponsored by the National Institute for School Leadership (NISL), Jones’ training involved skills of identification for the best instruction for literacy, mathematics and science. 

Jones has regularly facilitated trainings and professional developments from 2008 through today in a variety of important faculty instructional areas, including using state test scores to measure student gains, writing instructional objectives, managing at risk youth and differentiating instruction among others.