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ABOUT

Charles E. Youngs, Ed.D.

Educator with a passionate commitment to the intellectual and emotional growth of students and instructional capacity of teachers. Dedicated to creating classroom environments filled with engagement, encouragement, and high expectations. A well-traveled scholar with a strong education from a variety of universities, who enthusiastically introduces students to particulars of divers cultures and universals of the human condition through literature and composition, speaking, listening, and representation. A self-directed, action-oriented professional with more than 35 years' experience in education, publishing, and marketing, who currently leads and encourages a team of 15 English teachers who equip students with a robust mix of traditional and 21st-century knowledge and skills in literary arts and writing.

Specialties include teaching literature in historical context and contemporary relevance, process drama inquiry, digital integration, working with gifted learners, managing a writing center, integrating next-generation technology while upgrading best practices, and developing curriculum accordingly--all on a foundation of communications industry experience. Also, serving as building-level instructional coach of nearly 120 faculty with a focus on how to integrate technology with best practices in the high school classroom.
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• Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
• Capability in qualitative and mixed-methods research.
• Strong conceptual thinking, coupled with focused organizational skills to drive implementation and execution.
• Comfort with technology tools for individual work, group collaboration, and professional development.
• Hands-one experience in the field of design thinking and STEAM education.
  
• Innovation to develop solutions, combined with urgency to implement and evaluate such solutions.
• A pro-active, strategic approach to operations that seeks deference to expertise.
• Intense curiosity about research, learning, and making.
• Expertise in teams/systems management in education.
• Subjects taught include early American literature, British literature, world literature classics, composition, print journalism, public speaking, and integrated STEAM.

Research interests have focused on a range of topics including the efficacy of process drama in secondary instruction, school mindfulness/high-reliability, and leveraging department leadership. 

As an educator, the teaching of literature with particular interest in British and other non-American works in tandem with composition of multi-media reader response as well as formalist literary analysis define practice. For the past fifteen years, integration of technology to instruction has also been a focus.

engender the possibility for students to be literate, accomplished,
responsible, resilient individuals in community with others--that's the mission

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