Carroll Connection 2022-2023

Message from Dr. Renée Greenfield, Head of School

Carroll School has long been a champion of educational diversity: we empower students who learn differently to become lifelong, passionate learners.

We want our students to enter the world with confidence, self-advocacy skills, and a willingness to embrace all the opportunities life has for them—and our alumni are dynamic proof that our approach works, and has worked for more than a half-century.

Today, we recognize and acknowledge there’s much more we can do as a community  to engage in our inclusion, equity and diversity practices at Carroll. We are a school with long-standing and innovative ways to educate students with dyslexia, and we are able to do so through a social justice lens.

We want our students to have all the opportunities available to them, including the civil rights that come with being able to read, write, and communicate. We want them to be prepared to engage in critical, complex conversations, in order to better understand others’ perspectives.

We use our mission to guide all that we do at Carroll. This mission is a symbol of our intentional and thoughtful journey over the last five years, including welcoming Osamagbe Osagie as our Director of Equity and Inclusion, and creating a more culturally, ethnically, racially, and economically diverse community.

Further, our educators engage in professional development, open dialogue, and develop teaching and learning experiences that integrate DEI practices. Our mission guides us along, as we learn and grow as a community.

As the new Head of School, I am committed to our community, which values, appreciates, and celebrates difference on every level—not just in how we learn, but how we live as a supportive, inclusive community. The integration of diversity and equity into our mission shows our commitment to this work. If we were going to live it, we knew it was time to put it into words.

I’m honored to be a part of this incredible community, and to share all the ways we’re putting our mission into action—with the goal of truly giving every child what they most need.