Meet Our Office

Brian Wise
Director of Diversity Planning

Molly Philips
Administrative Assistant

Imana Legette
Diversity Coordinator and
Middle School Technology Director

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Accomplishments

We believe students benefit significantly from an education that affirms diversity as a value that is central to educational and academic excellence. As a result, in an effort to strengthen our school's commitment to diversity, we:

• Host an annual diversity conference in July entitled "Building an Inclusive School Community" that is open to teachers and school administrators in the Southeast.
• Instituted a Parents of Color In Independent Schools (POCIS) action group.
• Enhanced the school's curriculum to reflect the needs of our multicultural world.
• Became the first school in North Carolina to become affiliated with A Better Chance (ABC), a national organization that helps identify and place qualified minority students in schools and colleges.
• Established three endowed scholarships specifically for minorities.
• Instituted the William Randolph Hearst Teaching Fellowship Program, which introduces minority first-year teachers to Charlotte Country Day and to the teaching profession.
• Hired a full-time director of diversity planning to oversee the school's diversity programs.
• Increased enrollment of students of color.
• Became the first independent school in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area to implement a national faculty development seminar called "SEED" (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity).